Tag: Technology
After the town of Mantoloking, New Jersey was devastated by Hurricane Sandy last year, its citizens decided at least one thing wasn’t worth rebuilding: its telephone lines. The plan seems extreme at first, but when is the last time you actually picked up a landline phone and made a call (incoming calls don’t count)? I’ll wait. […]
Attend South Africa’s OppiKoppi music fest this summer will be greeted by perhaps history’s friendliest UAVs: a fleet of drones that will drop beers by parachute to anyone who orders them. In the video below, the flying booze bots are operated by remote control, but festival organizers eventually hope to make them fully automatic, with […]
IBM supercomputers have already beaten Kasparov at chess and Ken Jennings at Jeopardy. Now, the company hopes to take on the Anthony Bourdains, Alton Browns, and Gordon Ramsays of the world with a machine that’s designed to assemble recipes like a gourmet chef (t won’t actually cook, unfortunately). As Co.Design points out, the vague, abstracted idea of what […]
It’s about time this insanely powerful new technology was employed in the service of helping lazy people be lazy. Like an image plucked from the dreams of Homer Simpson, this Kinect hack turns any surface in your home into a remote control. Using the Kinect’s depth sensing camera in conjunction with a projector and voice detection, […]
Our friends at Evolver.fm uncovered “Brutalize Me,” an ingenious app from Music Hack Day Paris that allows you to turn the saccharine vocals from any pop tune into a gravelly death/black metal growl. As is often the case with software spawned at hack days, it’s not quite ready for public consumption, but fortunately, its creator […]
If you’re going to use cookie-cutter digital filters to doll up your shitty photography, why not do it in a way that actually brings something new to the images? Less Toaster and X-Pro II and more psychedelic digital chaos, you know? Turn off Instagram, download Glitché for free, and get to work. Like that app, Glitché […]
There’s a distinctly modern aesthetic preoccupation with abandoning strict narrative in favor of immersive sensory experience. Think of the films of Harmony Korine, or the drop-heavy electronic dance music that’s currently en vogue, which shuns the long, slow builds of previous genres and embraces isolated tableaux of overwhelming sound (there’s a reason Skrillex showed up […]
The Internet Archive, a massive online library with the goal of offering the public “permanent access” to historical digital media, has proven to be a great resource for artists and anyone else looking for obscure collections of video, music, and text. Everything from outdated car commercials to the Consumer Electronics Showcase of 1996 is available in the […]
Paul Rivot’s grandmother is 90 years old. She lived through the Great Depression, World War II, and the advents of AM/FM radio, television, and the internet. In the above video, she tries out the extraordinarily powerful Oculus Rift virtual reality headset for the first time, and it is positively heartwarming. Rivot set the headset to […]
BNJMN’s work is minimal and meditative–a bit like Franz Kline without all the drama, or RETNA’s deconstructed letterforms. In the below mini-documentary, one observer describes the painter’s oeuvre as “[provoking] a lot of emotions–sometimes it’s anger, sometimes it’s happiness or calmness.” “[He is] an artist in control of himself but not of the art that […]
