Tag: Technology
A 100,000+ signature petition prompted the White House to weigh in on the current debate over the legality of unlocking cell phones so they can be used on different carriers, which erupted after the U.S. Copyright Office announced phones were no longer exempted to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Fortunately, the Obama administration came down […]
For all the fun of flipping through dollar bin records without having to haul your ass to a Salvation Army, take a look at Rdio Obscurities, a Tumblr (and Twitter account) that highlights the oddest, most offbeat stuff the titular music streaming service has to offer. There’s Tell Your Cat You’re Pregnant, an “essential guide for cat […]
More often than not, fractals exist squarely within the realm of the digital. Though they closely resemble various natural phenomena–trees or lightning bolts, for example–the phrase usually channels something that was generated by an algorithm and lives on the cover of a ca. 1993 three-ring binder. Using 15,000 volts of electricity and a sheet of […]
What if physical objects were subjected to the same arbitrary usage limits that certain distributors have forced upon perfectly legal, paid-for digital media? That’s the question posed by the DRM Chair (that’s digital rights management to you), a piece of furniture that falls apart in majestic fashion after its internal counter has detected eight uses. […]
You may remember seeing the BigDog robot created by Boston Dynamics a couple years ago, when they put this video online and instilled fear into humans of a robot’s capabilities, but back then, the BigDog was only good at running. As evidenced from this new video, the BigDog can now throw cinderblocks and maintain its […]
Today in frightening/awesome science news: scientists from Duke University have successfully wired together the brains of two rats, giving them the mental power to solve problems neither could tackle individually. Wirelessly, the researchers were even able to link two rats’ minds with one in North Carolina and the other in Brazil. The scientists set up […]
Niklas Roy, a professor at art university in Germany (where else?) recently challenged his students to create functional computing systems using nothing more than cardboard, welding wire, glue, rope, rulers and cutting knifes. To prove it could be done, Roy also created a cardboard computer himself–the ingenious plotting machine in the above video. Roy’s students submitted […]
So you’ve tweeted your last tweet, just before heading into the great social network in the sky. Would you rather have your feed lie unpopulated and empty for the rest of eternity, or, if you could, would you like to have it keep on tweeting, retweeting, and favoriting, long after you’ve passed beyond the physical […]
I’m not much of a games guy, but I would play the absolute shit out of Riot, a forthcoming title that allows you to play as either protesters or police in a global clash of forces. Of course, whenever real-life conflicts with direct impact on many, many human lives are “ripped from the headlines” for our entertainment, there’s […]
Though the potential consumer and commercial applications for 3D-Printing get wider every day, its high cost and high-tech wonkiness has prohibited it from becoming a household item. The 3Doodler, a handheld 3D-printing device that’s currently funding on Kickstarter, may change all that. “Everyone knows how to use a pen,” says Peter Dilworth, one of 3Doodler’s […]
