Tag: Technology
Here it is: the Harlem Shake to end all Harlem Shakes. The mobile developers at Moovweb created this ingenious bookmarklet, which gets the text, images, and other assets of any website dancing around to the Internet’s favorite Baauer track. To use it, just head here, drag the button onto your bookmarks bar, then click it […]
A group of researchers led by grad student/metalhead Jesse Silverberg took it upon themselves to analyze the physics of mosh pits, pulling videos from YouTube and using software designed to look at particle physics. What they found was astounding–that the statistical distribution of speeds of various moshers matched that of particles moving freely in a […]
You’re on your cell phone, talking to a friend, pacing in circles, fidgeting with your hands, checking your cuticles–whatever it is you do while you’re on the phone. They’re odd, pointless behaviors, but we do them nonetheless, and a group of designers from the Art Center College of Design has taken it upon themselves to illustrate […]
The idea of growing a piece of meat in a lab, without an animal, is sure to make a few readers gag–and understandably so. But when considered against the monumental environmental (not to mention ethical) impact of factory farming, 3D-printed hamburgers and pork chops slowly become more appealing. In the above lecture from Solve for […]
Digital artist Evan Bech creates these psychedelic visuals by using digital means to replicate a time-worn analog glitch technique: the feedback loop. A program that’s constantly taking screen grabs and generating new images goes haywire as Bech manually moves windows around, creating an effect that evokes both the old Solitaire win screen (thanks, Co.Design) and […]
Web designer Marko Dugonjić created an experimental site in which the type changes sizes based on how close your face is to the computer. When you’re right up next to the screen, it’s nice and small, and as you move further away, the type gets bigger so it’s easier to see. Genius! It’s a little […]
The internet is so omnipresent in most of our lives that it’s easy to forget about the vast physical network that supports it–which, among other things, is comprised of a staggering 550,000 miles of underground cabling. To show you exactly what that means, communications research firm TeleGeography and designer Markus Kristeya created the above beautifully […]
That illustration above is law student Asher J. Kohn’s concept of what a fully operational drone-proof city might look like. Rather than building barriers to keep people out and deter weapon strikes like traditional defenses, Kohn’s concept–called Shura City–includes several technologies that obscure people and their movements in order to make them untraceable by UAVs. […]
To test just how clever Cleverbot really is, director Chris R. Wilson created a short film, co-written by the celebrated artificial intelligence platform and acted out by real humans. According to Wilson, he’d set up scenes for Cleverbot, then allow it to fill in the characters’ dialogue. The resulting film is as zany as should […]
Hacker/artists Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico take the private information you post online and free the virtual you from the “you” you. Face to Facebook, showing in New York for the first time this month, is a multimedia installation of 1,000,000 appropriated, or “stolen,” Facebook profile pictures matched up simply by facial expression on a custom […]
