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"Guy saves his drone" #teamhuman

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experience is always mediated.

Outside

Short video by Vladimir Tomin is a series of sketches imagining the real world manipulated through PC desktop software interfaces:

So that’s what it feels like to go outside

Link

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Been thinking about why HQ Trivia and NBA InPlay feel so...different from anything else out there. There’s something new going on with social media that has thousands and millions interacting LIVE. Oh, the humanity.

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Game by Brad Dwyer utilizes the iPhone X Truedepth camera to turn your face into a controller.

Nose Zone website

Imagine what this means for people with motor disabilities. Also imagine what this means for people with emotions and money, and those who want their money.

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HACKberry, the open sourced 3D printed bionic hand created by Japanese company exiii, is not only more functional than some prosthetic hands, but is also obtainable at just a fraction of the price.

via exiii

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Office on an Arm

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I recently discovered that I’ve been sending *wildly* different emojis to my Android friends.

I thought I was texting, HAY LET’S GO OUT :and danse:…

…when it was really more like HAY LET’S GO OUT :can I court you: (on Android) or even more terrifyingly, HAY LET’S GO OUT :I’m a preteen: (on Samsung).

A new paper has shown that people interpret an emoji’s meaning in a variety of ways, in part because emojis look so different across platforms.

The paper, which will be published by AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media in May, revealed that users saw the Google version of the emoji as “‘blissfully happy’ while the exact same Unicode character, but rendered for Apple, was described as ‘ready to fight.’”

And that ambiguity leads to confusing cross-platform conversations like this… [x]

@buzzfeed h/t @mostlypoptarts​

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This book “store” eats trees and poops out bits that zip around the world on light and copper.

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I'm so excited about this, I feel like a little kid!

Rosetta’s Philae probe lands on comet

After traveling millions of miles through the solar system and slingshotting around a few planets, ESA’s Rosetta mission has successfully soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved. But it’s not yet clear if the mission’s lander, Philae, is in a secure position. According to the Philae Twitter account, the harpoons have not deployed correctly.

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Jawbone UP Data Shows How Many Woke Up During the Napa Earthquake

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Heyo -- that's Jack in the bunny head!

First User Test happened @ ITP 2014 Spring Show!

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3D printed Osteoid Medical cast, attachable bone stimulator by Deniz Karasahin

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Lenticular Encryption

This is a small project I have put together for the Widget Art Gallery, combining lenticular display methods and the animated gif:

This is an experimental project that examines the aesthetics of lenticularization and extends the creative possibilities of the GIF format. Lenticularization of an image allows the viewer to be presented with additional visual information within the same space, dependent on angle. Striped of lenticular sheets, we see that information altogether, almost theoretically identical to the Cubist idea of relativity presented as one. This project aims to appreciate the encrypted information as it is as well as decoded with additional media. Also, it aims to highlight and hopefully inspire the idea that there is more that can be done with the GIF medium - new tricks and methods can be applied to animation making, whether it is ‘flipping’ from one image to another, or added depth … Gif making can have additional visual narratives.

Below is a video demonstrating how the GIFs can be seen through a lenticular sheet (including an additional piece which will appear later on):

You can find out more about the Widget Art Gallery here

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Fascism comes along whenever the rich people get the generals to do what they want.

Woody Guthrie (via goodreasonnews)

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This is what Google Earth would look like with live video

Via http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/3/6/5478258/this-is-what-google-earth-would-look-like-with-live-video