December 2011
85 posts
Ticketing 3.0: Facebook Becomes a Box Office →
First, we bought tickets from a cashier. Then, we did the cashier’s work from home on the web (for a fee, somehow). The new box office: Facebook. Ticketfly’s Facebook ticketing app, which launched on Thursday, aims to boost sales in part by letting people know when friends buy a ticket. The big idea is to complete […]
from Evolver.fm http://bit.ly/uwbpzc
“AARON is the world’s first cybernetic artist:... →
“AARON is the world’s first cybernetic artist: an artificially intelligent system that composes its own paintings. Incredibly, the system is the work of one man, Harold Cohen, who had no background in computing when he began the effort.”
“Can you tell the difference between art created by AARON and art created by a human? Take a look at the images below and test your eye.”
Robopainter -...
Online order tracking tool for gift recipients →
Slice is a California-based company that enables customers to view, track and organize their online purchases from different retailers, in one place for free. For the Christmas season they have launched an additional “Track with Friends” feature that allows users to send personalized notifications to gift-recipients, so those with gifts on the way can track their present without...
“Since the time when man began to control the... →
“Since the time when man began to control the environment he has been plagued by his limited ability to speculate..” (via @kittycountry) The information machine (1958) by Charles and Ray Eames.
from AltNyttErFarlig http://bit.ly/v6ou9d
Video chat reshapes domestic rituals →
Far-flung families are increasingly using Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and Google chat to do things together that would otherwise require a plane ticket.
“Though Skype is now eight years old, the software — and others like it, including Apple’s FaceTime and Google chat — has become a regular fixture in a growing number of American homes, providing new ways for families to stay connected in an age...
Study: Millennials prefer sharing over ownership →
The idea of sharing things instead of owning them goes against everything we’ve been taught as a consumeristic society.
Those who have spent their lives “keeping up with the Jones’” may find it hard to suddenly relinquish their death-grip on idea that owning things is the path toward happiness. But younger generations, poised to inherit the economic turmoil and environmental disaster caused by...
Art or Not →
Art or Not — Hot or Not for the art world, created by OKFocus (Jonathan Vingiano and Ryder Ripps.)
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Virtual Sculpture Park (2011) (A collaboration... →
Virtual Sculpture Park (2011) (A collaboration with Sebastian Acker)
During a sculpture festival within Gordon Square park, London, QR codes were placed on plaques throughout the park. Instead of these plaques relating to physical sculptures they could instead be scanned with a smartphone and the viewer would be directed to a virtual 3D model of an unrealised public sculpture along with its...
Cloud Mirror →
Daniel Burnham, Anuj Patel, and Sam Bell created for their embedded systems class at Georgia Tech a bathroom mirror / information display. Dubbed Cloud Mirror, it is essentially a partially silvered mirror placed in front of an LCD television, hooked up to a WinCE box with some Phidget sensors.
The User controls the display by waving his/her hand across eight infrared sensors (four across the...
Errorbox →
Submitted by adactio.
from The New Aesthetic http://bit.ly/tUBIfL
Your Butt Is Your Password in the Anti-Theft Car... →
Keys can be stolen, remote alarms can be hacked. But your butt-print is yours alone. And if these Japanese researchers have their way, you’ll soon use it to start your car. The seat itself, looks like a normal bucket seat, however, its lower section is lined with 360 pressure sensors that measure the force exerted by your backside across the seat. This information is then fed into a...
Hack Your Christmas Lights To Flash When You Get... →
The holidays can drag after a while. If the constant festive cheer gets too much, here’s a project to take your mind off things: make your Christmas tree lights flash when you get new email. It is, after all, rude to spend the entire Christmas season with your laptop out or smartphone to hand. Some of the time you should be celebrating — but that doesn’t mean you can’t...
Amrit Richmond: Thoughts on Making Things →
amritrichmond:
I like making things from scratch. This year I made a few side projects (The Internet Wishlist, Startup Ipsum) through Magenta Labs, my experiment/consulting lab. I’ve also worked with startups and media companies ranging from 5, to 30, to 75 people. Most of my friends and colleagues are…
A Great Idea for What to Do With the Pennies Left... →
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JBatistaa: third places →
jbatistaa:
I’ve always been an advocate of a Third Place, without ever realizing I was referring to a real and studied concept within sociology. Fast Company recently published a great post about the importance of and value in carving out social moments that enrich us. I believe all creative thinkers (or…
Brand Early, Not Often | Fast Company →
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5 Lessons From The Best Interaction Designs Of... →
Don’t get distracted by the hype surrounding Google and Apple, Facebook and Twitter, or Android and iPhone. It is time to get out of that game, with technologies like HTML 5 pointing the way. Getting your data onto a single platform is not going to win you any awards. Smart companies are turning their products into services that are broadly distributed, where the value is in the...
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from lipsumarium.com http://bit.ly/sbD7XJ
Historic Building Transformed Into An Interactive... →
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How Twitter Proves That Place Matters - Technology... →
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Glasses provide sound and scent →
Researchers from Keio University in Tokyo have created glasses designed to not only augment the wearer’s sight, but also sound AND smell. The glasses are aimed to enhance our social experience by emitting sound and smell signals that are unique to a person that you meet. In the words of its makers, “it is an attempt to encourage face-to-face communication with emotional and memorable sound and...
To often these trend/future views look at... →
To often these trend/future views look at technology, and not consequences, habits and culture. Ex: in the 60’s they were talking about the future being flying cars instead of gender equality. Technology ex. mobility in itself is rather uninteresting, the interesting stuff is what happens when everything is mobile.. (in the words of Kevin Kelly)
(via psyxonaut)
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Don't Be A Free User →
Were you a big Gowalla fan? Did you like Dodgeball? Did you think Trunk.ly (gasp!) was better than Pinboard? Did you make a lot of contributions to Nextstop? Do you miss Aardvark and EtherPad? Did “I Want Sandy” change your life?
These projects are all very different, but the dynamic is the same. Someone builds a cool, free product, it gets popular, and that popularity...
Daring Fireball Linked List: Nokia Exec:... →
from daringfireball.net http://bit.ly/u1AcAi
SOS Children's Villages: AppAid - Cat:... →
from creativity-online.com http://bit.ly/vscDhp
Future Work Skills 2020 | Institute For The Future →
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God helmet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
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imitation, flattery and all that
kimjongunlookingatthings:
a few hours after i created this tumblr, this page was created, containing caption and sidebar text stolen directly from this one:
http://kimjongunlookingatthings.posterous.com
looks like they made a facebook group, too. so goes the internets…
There are no firsts on the internet
Interuserface | QR UX →
from interuserface.net http://bit.ly/st9spT
QR UX →
Getting data from a public place onto a mobile device—whether that data is a discount coupon, a museum map, a restaurant menu, or any other kind of mobile web site, is a problem with no shortage of solutions. Location-based services, NFC systems, and even Bluetooth 4.0 each offer a handful of promising possibilities, but the clear leader is the simplest: QR codes. Yet while the QR code has long...
The Local-global Flip, Or, "the Lanier... →
it was very hard for somebody else to copy Wal-Mart once Wal-Mart had gathered all the information, because once they have the whole world aligned by the information in their server, they created essentially an expense or a risk for anybody to jump out of that system. That was very hard. … In a similar way, once you are a customer of Google’s ad network, the moment that you stop...
Zombies… →
Here’s a little taste of the next What’s Next report out soon….
You may not have noticed this but we are becoming increasingly fascinated with the undead. Over the past few years, TV shows and computer games about Zombies have been invading movie theatres, living rooms and computers.
So what’s going on here? Why are we so interested in something that can’t talk and doesn’t mind getting shot?...
"The maker movement is both a response to and an... →
“The maker movement is both a response to and an outgrowth of digital culture, made possible by the convergence of several trends. New tools and electronic components let people integrate the physical and digital worlds simply and cheaply. Online services and design software make it easy to develop and share digital blueprints. And many people who spend all day manipulating bits on computer...
"The most fantastic thing about the institution of... →
“The most fantastic thing about the institution of the newspaper, as we knew it, was that human beings built a culture that amplified things that made people in power uncomfortable, despite the risk that entailed. Their classified sales kept them fiscally sound and their distribution power was sufficient that they could inspire fear in politicians and business leaders.” - Investigation and...
"We are hard-wired for photos or more precisely... →
“We are hard-wired for photos or more precisely still images (I’ve got six thousand years worth of claims that “painting is dead” to back up that outrageous claim, by the way) and they come with enough emotional baggage and social triggers that they deserve to be treated with care and thought. At the very least they deserve to be guaranteed some degree of permanence” - [this is aaronland...
"Of course, it was Seneca who said that hyperbole... →
“Of course, it was Seneca who said that hyperbole “asserts the incredible in order to arrive at the credible.”)” - Timothy Ferriss, Silicon Valley’s Self-Help Guru : The New Yorker
from deathbeard http://bit.ly/taXl0I
In the old days once you bought something that was... →
In the old days once you bought something that was what you got for the lifetime of that object. Today, things connect to the Internet and the digital / connected layer updates and alters / grows its abilities. The product you bought might end up as something completely different from what it was when you got it…
“…how do you get great new stuff into your car - after you bought it? And the old...
“The audience became part of the light show last... →
“The audience became part of the light show last night at the SECC in Glasgow! Simple, but genius, idea to give us all wristbands that they controlled and which came on during certain songs.”
Coldplay, Charlie Brown with Glowbands, Glasgow (by muchalls123), via antimega.
from The New Aesthetic http://bit.ly/s8jspM
"Metaphor is, at its simplest, a way of proceeding... →
“Metaphor is, at its simplest, a way of proceeding from the known to the unknown. Alternatively, it could be said that ritual is a way of proceeding from the known to the unknown. It seems that individuals create metaphors whereas societies create rituals (I am, of course, deliberately paraphrasing Jung’s observation that individuals dream whereas cultures have myths).” - At the Edge archive: An...
"Screens will read us; we will not only read them.... →
“Screens will read us; we will not only read them. This brings up the question of how our literacy of not only screens, but also our environments, will be altered forever. We will have to decide whether messages we see on signs that react to us, which change to our needs in real time based on how they acquire and process our demographic data is a deep violation of privacy or helpful, tailored...
"There was this about a Model T; the purchaser... →
“There was this about a Model T; the purchaser never regarded his purchase as a complete, finished product. When you bought a Ford, you figured you had a start — a vibrant, spirited framework to which could be screwed an almost limitless assortment of decorative and functional hardware. Driving away from the agency, hugging the new wheel between your knees, you were already full of creative worry....
"In fact, it is now usually cheaper to just try... →
“In fact, it is now usually cheaper to just try something than to sit around and try to figure out whether to try something. The map is now often more complex and often more expensive to create than trying to figure it out as you go. The compass has replaced the map and the idea of “rough consensus running code” has spread from the ideology behind network architecture to a fundamental philosophy...
“Companies like Bayliff’s are looking for ways to... →
“Companies like Bayliff’s are looking for ways to shave time, and the easiest method is to build a more direct route. Last year, Mississippi-based Spread Networks opened a shorter connection between New York and Chicago that saved about three milliseconds and was estimated to have cost $300 million to develop. Huawei is working with another company, Hibernia Atlantic, to lay the first...
“The Vital Signs Camera App of Philips measures... →
“The Vital Signs Camera App of Philips measures your heart rate and breathing rate remotely, simply using the iPad 2 camera. This breakthrough technology allows you to measure your vital signs in an easy and unobtrusive way at home. ” - Phillips
(via Vincent Everts)
from AltNyttErFarlig http://bit.ly/tTQBCO
BBC - Newsbeat - Police to test ‘anti-riot’... →
BBC - Newsbeat - Police to test ‘anti-riot’ laser that can temporarily blind people
from The New Aesthetic http://bit.ly/vSAoOn
Dashlane →
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Drivers submit a photo, auto shops bid on their... →
It was just over a year ago that we wrote about DentBetty, the site that enables online bidding for cosmetic auto repairs, but recently we came across a company that takes the same premise a step or two further. Based in Chicago, Body Shop Bids is an online and mobile platform that lets drivers solicit estimates for a variety of car repairs simply by uploading a photo. Drivers with a body or...
Teleportd takes you where you want to go.. (via... →
Teleportd takes you where you want to go.. (via @faris)
from AltNyttErFarlig http://bit.ly/rEcrM9
Trent Brooks tests out the data feed he can get... →
Trent Brooks tests out the data feed he can get from a regular smartphone while snowboarding. It’s not million dollar Nokia Push Snowboarding quality, but it goes to prove how far you can get with the regular equipment everyone has in their pocket. (via Caleb Kramer)
from AltNyttErFarlig http://bit.ly/v3R5g5
“Thousands of Twitter accounts apparently created... →
“Thousands of Twitter accounts apparently created in advance to blast automated messages are being used to drown out Tweets sent by bloggers and activists this week who are protesting the disputed parliamentary elections in Russia, security experts said.”
Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets — Krebs on Security
from The New Aesthetic http://bit.ly/t1t1Bl