Saturday, August 28, 2010
Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime At the University of California, San Francisco, scientists have found that when rats have a new experience, like exploring an unfamiliar area, their brains show new patterns of activity. But only when the rats take a break from their exploration do they process those patterns in a way [...]
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I saw this on Engadget: (Chinese comprehension recommended but not required for those who like to decipher graphics) Apparently China is about to build huge buses that basically swoop over passenger cars, carrying riders on a raised level. The video of a short presentation given by one of the, I assume, design team claims that [...]
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A little fledgling program called Color a Sound, which uses pictures drawn on transparency to trigger sounds. It’s not overly impressive at this point, but I’d like to think that with a little more development, it could result in some creative musicking. Color a Sound from blair neal on Vimeo. At the least, tech makes [...]
A couple of months ago I peeked in on the public demo portion of a Tech x Journalism iPad app developing workshop given by Hacks/Hackers. While most of the apps were useful in a way that didn’t really push the envelope that much, one that wasn’t so realized stuck with me the most. It’s called [...]
I been learning the ropes on a stereo Holga, but in the process of acquiring one I looked at a lot of possibilities, including the Loreo 3D converter and an old Pentax beam splitter. None of them really seemed all that worthwhile considering how bulky and optically meh they were. But then there’s the other [...]
Click through these two presentations and you get a pretty good sense of the web today. First, the first five slides of this article on the weak spots of tech giants pretty much sum up the tech world today in a few sentences. As for the first assertion that Google doesn’t get social networking, I’d [...]
Samuel Zuder I saw this image by Samuel Zuder and thought I’d like to try photographing portraits with the subject in the space between two cars at some point too. No doubt I’d come up with a recognizably “similar” photograph, but ideally, I’d hope to go beyond the concept and inject my own photo with [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
I saw this in the New Scientist: This bacterial “photo” was created by projecting light onto bacterial “film” – genetically engineered E. coli bacteria. The film was infused with a sugar that turns black when digested. The bacteria in the dark parts of the Petri dish digested this sugar and so turned black, whereas in [...]
(via) Awesome. Go here for a full version: Care and feeding of a mermaid And something completely different: The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. (via) Damn, CG has come a long way. Apparently this is all CG except for a very few things which Roman lists in the comments. If you [...]
In the spirit of the recent Nobel awarded for the invention of the CCD sensor, here is a “photo” of a molecule of pentacene taken by an IBM lab. (Go to the BBC for details.) It is not a photo in the sense of being made with a camera and light rays, but for me [...]
Heard of the Livescribe Pulse Pen? You buy special dot paper and the infrared camera on the pen tracks your writing motions, storing them in memory (1 or 2 GB) and, if you want, recording audio sync-ed to your writing which you can then play back through the built-in speaker or headphone jack simply by [...]
I did some searching and rethinking after the post in which I mentioned holographic cameras and it seems that the precursor to that will be something along the lines of the illusion of 3D projection through the use of multiple projectors. I guess the two technologies are qualitatively different, but 3D projection seems to be [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009
A Move to Curb Digitally Altered Photos in Ads The Liberal Democrats, the third-largest party in Britain, after Labor and the Conservatives, adopted Ms. Swinson’s proposal for a labeling system this month as part of their official platform. The party wants to ban altered photos entirely in ads aimed at children under 16. On retouching, [...]
While doing my usual web rounds, I ran into a couple of individual net fundraising ventures. Seen on La Pura Vida: Hamburger Eyes photo collective published their latest issue with funding from Kickstarter, a fundraising site that currently invite-only, though you can contact the staff and make a pitch to get your project up there. [...]
Donwood/Tchock This week the weekend silliness comes a bit before the weekend because I can’t contain my excitement about how Radiohead released its newest song. So I offer this up now and will say a few words about Andrew Hetherington’s talk in SF yesterday next week. (I admit I like having a little time to [...]
