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May 14, 2013 Andy Cush

Google image search “Atari Breakout” right now. Just do it. I won’t spoil the fun for you by telling you what’s going to happen. […]

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May 13, 2013 Andy Cush

To create Venus of Google, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez first took a photograph. Then, he uploaded that photo, of “a box filled with feathers and LEDs,” into Google’s reverse image search. After this image of a woman in a “Body Wrap” arrived in the results, Plummer-Fernandez used his own algorithm, similar to Google’s, to sculpt a blank digital slate […]

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March 19, 2013 Andy Cush

Finding that perfect little looping animation of dogs breaking up a cat fight, Elmo jumping, or Guy Fieri lapping up Pellegrino is about to get much easier: Today, Google announced a new image search feature that will allow you to filter your results to receive GIFs. A lucky few (not me) users have GIF search already, but the […]

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March 11, 2013 Andy Cush

The Image Toaster from German designer and engineer Scott van Haastrecht searches Google Images for a random picture related to the current date, then “prints” it onto a 6×6 pixel grid on a piece of toast. Finally! Today’s toast might feature a crude rendering of Barbara Streisand, for example, or the seal of the Department of […]

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