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But Andy will not back down.

Originally by Administrator from turbanhead on March 3, 2006, 9:34am

The mysterious Origami project is a mystery no longer: It’s a paperback-book-size computer that runs Windows XP. Redmond is betting that you on-the-go types will flock to it like bees to honey.

Originally from Wired News: Technology on March 9, 2006, 7:00am

How Porsche and Lotus re-engineered small, street-legal engines to rival the world’s most expensive sports cars in raw power for a fraction of the price. (No, that doesn’t make them cheap. But it does make them cool.) Bruce Gain reports from Geneva, Switzerland.

Originally from Wired News: Technology on March 10, 2006, 1:00am

Photographs By Iraqi Civilians.

Originally by Administrator from turbanhead on March 6, 2006, 11:51pm

Absolutely fantastic panoramas of Hanoi’s urban melee by photographer Thinh Le. It goes without saying the full versions have a greater impact than these thumbnails.

The breeding grounds of Avian flu or some of the most successful urban spaces anywhere?

Originally from Pruned on March 5, 2006, 11:59pm

As CMOS technology reaches the nanoscale level, researchers are looking at ‘noise’ and other perturbations. And some of them at the Georgia Institute of Technology have taken advantage of this ‘noise’ to achieve incredible energy savings by a factor of more than 500 in simulations with their probabilistic CMOS (PCMOS) chips. Such embedded chips could be used for specific applications such as video or audio signal processing within a year — if industrial partners agree to use this technology.

Originally from Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends on March 9, 2006, 2:08pm

Take equal parts Merzbau and your choice of roadside amusement park — Rockome Gardens, for instance; add a dash of Gregor Schneider for some kick and a dollop of Teletubbyland; mix all that in a Target® Michael Graves bowl; throw in one or two Richard Serra toruses if you’d like.

And voila! Site of Reversible Destiny.

Designed by the artist Shusaku Arakawa and poet Madeline Gins and “[o]pened in October 1995, the Site of Reversible Destiny - Yoro Park is an ‘experience park’ conceived on the theme of encountering the unexpected. By guiding visitors through various unexpected experiences as they walk through its component areas, the Site offers them opportunities to rethink their physical and spiritual orientation to the world.” Can you train astronauts there?

Perhaps Virgin Galactic might require its future space tourists to log in a few hours at Yoro Park as part of their preparation in addition to visits to Baikonur. Or the now cash-strapped NASA substitute time on the centrifuge or on the vomit comet with an afternoon stroll at the Site of Reversible Destiny.

In any case, to get the most out of the park, be sure to follow the instructions. Which read more like Zen koans.

Instead of being fearful of losing your balance, look forward to it (as a desirable re-ordering of the landing sites, formerly known as the senses).

Try to draw the sky down into the bowl of the field.

Use each of the five Japans to locate or to compose where you are.

If accidentally thrown completely off-balance, try to note the number, and also the type and the placement, of the landing sites essential to reconstituting a world.

Frequently swing around to look behind you.

If an area or a landing site catches your eye and attracts your interest to the same degree as the area through which you are actually moving, take it up on the spot, pursuing it as best you can as a parallel zone of activity.

Make use of the Exactitude Ridge to register each measured sequence of events that makes up the distance.

Within the Zone of the Clearest Confusion, always try to be more body and less person.

Wander through the ruin known as the Destiny House or the Landing Site Depot as though you were an extra-terrestrial.

In and about the Kinesthetic Pass, repeat every action two or three times, once in slow motion.

(The first image comes from the artists’ website. The rest were lifted from Figure/Ground.)

Link:
Site of Reversible Destiny

(Spotted at Tropolism and Brand Avenue)

Originally from Pruned on March 6, 2006, 1:23pm

2.22.06@00.03.22 (2006, 1.77MB, 4 sec loop)

Boom Train (2006, 6.03MB, 12 sec loop)
Three layer composite featuring graffiti trains, tunnel lights and a nifty little app called Draw45_Hack9.

Cold Creamy Breast (2006, 3.98MB, 5 sec loop)
Can you tell which is the real chicken?

an ambient display as a pair of wirelessly connected LED light flowers, of which each cluster of 3 changes color based upon the emotions of the person holding it’s twin. the flowers use an emotion recognition engine that recognizes emotion in speech patterns. a small microphone is hidden in the flowers to detect happiness (yellow), sadness (blue), excitement (red) & calmness (green). changing emotions are expressed through subtle color gradations & variations in light brightness. see also gori node garden & nabaztag.
[pinktentacle.com|via engadget.com]

Originally from information aesthetics on March 5, 2006, 7:19pm

a real-time media installation, specifically created for a 6-level staircase, consisting of dynamic audio/visual structures intermixed with static wall- drawn elements. an amalgamation of image & text parsed directly from the BBC’s live internet news service is algorithmically recombined into a semi-abstract visual array, which is then back-projected onto a horizontally suspended screen situated in the lowest well of the staircase.
[takeo.org|via we-make-money-not-art.com]

Originally from information aesthetics on March 3, 2006, 4:30pm

an electronic light sculpture consisting of a matrix of LED tubes on the outer surfaces of each of two elevator cabs of a large public library in Minneapolis. as the cabs ride up & down an inner atrium, the LED displays will reveal, letter by letter, the titles of books being checked out by library patrons. the climbing & descending book titles seem to evoke the idea that library patrons have become part of a giant reading machine: the LED signs will “scan as if they were text hanging in the air.”
[adobe.com & mplib.org|via we-make-money-not-art.com]

Originally from information aesthetics on March 7, 2006, 3:33pm

Nice little article over on C¦Net discussing how fans of television shows are using onling mapping tools to document places/events/whatever tied to their favorite show. From the article (Link):
It is surprising that more studios and broadcast networks looking for ways to increase viewership haven’t caught on to the mashup rage, which seems a near perfect [...]

Originally posted by csven from reBang weblog, ReBlogged by perry on Mar 7, 2006 at 09:58 AM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on March 7, 2006, 8:58am

a pair of electronically enhanced cups that are wireless connected to each other with sip sensors & LED illumination. the cups will glow & celebrate when the other user (your lover) is drinking. this ambient, physical visualization explores the idea of sharing feelings of drinking between 2 people in different places by using cups as communication interfaces of drinking. see also strawlike interface.
[mit.edu|via dfire.org]

Originally from information aesthetics on March 8, 2006, 4:39pm

an intruiging weather-determined music video, which is dynamic & ever-changing as it is affected by the weather & local time from the position of the viewer.
[theunseenvideo.com|thnkx Saurabh]

Originally from information aesthetics on March 6, 2006, 10:21pm

the entire database of William Shakespeare represented as a single ‘dotplot’. this visual pixel matrix is a visual overview of millions of data points, by mapping data values as a matrix of colored pixels. the resulting texture can be interpreted by recognizing squares & diagonals that indicate sequences of similarities in multiple documents.
the large dark cluster in the upper left is formed by the European Histories. the tokens matching the most in this cluster (the dominant vocabulary in the European Histories after term weighting) include Richard, God, Duke, John, Lord, Henry, Sir, death, Queen, York, France, hand, & blood.
[imagebeat.com]

Originally from information aesthetics on March 6, 2006, 7:18pm

Check after the jump to see how this was made

Originally from Wooster Collective / A Celebration of Street Art, ReBlogged by perry on Mar 7, 2006 at 10:14 AM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on March 7, 2006, 9:14am

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[Greg Lipscomb] from DIY Live gave us the heads up on his latest project:
Macro photography
with a disposable camera. While playing around with the Kodak Max outdoor camera he discovered that the lens was
behaving similar to a jewellers loupe that he had. He figured that it could probably take macro shots with some
tweaking. He disassembled the camera and then drilled a larger aperture since F11 would have been too small. Then he
attached the assembly to the lens from his Canon 10D and fired away. He’s got example pictures on his site; they’re
pretty good for something held together by scotch tape.

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Originally posted by Eliot Phillips from hack a day, ReBlogged by perry on Mar 11, 2006 at 12:02 PM

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