“I imagined people playing with art around them, like they would do playing with pictures on their iPhone/iPad,” says Caillard.
French artist Leo Caillard has created a new installation at the Louvre – virtually, anyway – that recontextualizes the art as digital imagery inside an Apple UI space. Taking the concept behind Art Authority to its logical conclusion, I say.
(Wired)
Imagine if apartment complexes and shopping centers started installing these things in every space. Or if you could power a car via an induction track built into the roadway. Electric express lanes would be another incentive to buy plug-in electric assist or full electric cars. Still waiting for a plug-in hybrid that uses a diesel reserve generator. If only Audi would marry TDI to their e-tron concepts…
(Jalopnik)
Lepht Anonym is a transhumanist experimenter with years of experience performing DIY enhancements to herself:
But it isn’t for everybody, this cutting yourself up in your own kitchen. She’s the first to warn people that it hurts. A lot. Every time, you don’t get used to it. Afterward, people may not be inclined to understand, to put it mildly. (“Avoid normal people,” she warns. “They’re stupid.”)
io9 has a compelling story about Lepht that’s a really entertaining short read.
What will the world look like in 2019? io9 posts a video interview with visual futurist (a title I’d kill for), Syd Mead, that aims to answer this question.
2019: A Future Imagined from Flat-12 on Vimeo.
I think what I enjoyed most was Syd’s advice for doing good work – being the creator, the technician and the observer. This is kind of the core of my job and has been since I started at 19, so it’s good to hear it from such a visionary. Thanks, Syd!
If I were able to give technology like this to my six year old self, my parents hours would have been fully of projected sky cities for my hovering sedans and sports cars to visit and exotic forest planets for my adventurers and scientists to explore. We’d also have had cameras everywhere, but them’s the breaks, I’m afraid.
I can imagine a school outfitted with this technology that could project different functions onto a student’s accoutrements depending on what room or building was being used. Would certainly be a worthwhile experiment of kinesthetic learning…
(Engadget)
A new way to interact with fiction from Jonathan M. Guberman on Vimeo.
Okay, this is officially the best use of an Arduino board to date. In case you are unsure of what’s going on in the video, you are seeing a typewriter being used to create the text of Zork, my favorite text-based adventure game from the 80s. What a delightful mix of old and slightly less-old via the entirely new.
(Thanks, Engadget!)
New-old coworker, Hannah, just sent me this über cool video of a Czech clock tower being brought back to its former glory in Prague. Wouldn’t it be cool to try this with any number of historic buildings in small towns across the country? I can imagine this being an outstanding history project – just wonder how difficult it would be to actually pull off?
The 600 Years from the macula on Vimeo.
So, you’ve surely seen the news that a supposed habitable planet has been discovered around the Gliese 581 star in the constellation of Libra. The world has been dubbed 581g and is a tidally locked rocky world with the strong potential for liquid water and is certainly an exciting find for a slew of reasons.
More intriguing, though, is the 2008 report from an astronomer who documented a single blast of what can only be described as laser light from nearby Gliese 581e. The question may not be whether there is life in the Gliese system so much as what kind of life is there.
