Tag: Technology
Remember the rodent mind meld we told you about earlier this year, in which researchers used one rat’s brain to control another rat’s movements? A group of scientists at the University of Washington just upped the ante, using a human brain to control… another human brain. The gist of it is this: Rajesh Rao sat on one […]
For these beautiful, dreamlike portraits, artist Nick Criscuolo takes inkjet printouts of existing images, then modifies them to his liking. Water “melts” the ink, new pigments are added, and scratches contrast the bleeding, amorphous pools of color with sharply-defined lines. The highly physical process combined with the emphasis on widely available consumer technology makes for painting that […]
Here’s a sublime little video of a musician named Julian Corrie playing his guitar and singing in an empty swimming pool. That guitar, however, is controlling an old floppy disk drive via MIDI, and there’s a keyboard and drum machine connected to a SEGA Mega Drive, Commodore 64, and a few hard drives as well. […]
Do you see anything in the massive cluster of Emojis above? Try stepping back from your computer and squinting your eyes a little so it goes out of focus. Anything? Nothing? It’s me! Wearing sunglasses! Made out of Emojis! I made it using Emojify, a new app for iOS that turns each pixel of a […]
“Unmanned aerial vehicle” is fine; so is “remote-controlled quad-copter,” I’d imagine. The industry that makes the pilotless flying robots most know as “drones” just doesn’t want you calling them “drones,” according to a Washington Post report. Why? Because “drone” conjures up the image of innocent people dying in Yemen and Pakistan, of surveillance vehicles snooping on your […]
It was only a matter of time before a mainstream retailer dipped its toes into 3D printing, but it still feels like a big step. UPS announced that six of its San Diego outposts would get in-store 3D printers for customer use, with more cities being added to the program “in the near future.” Significantly, […]
DFA, in this case, stands for “Distributed Flight Array,” but it’s hard not to think “Death From Above.” The acronym refers to a fleet of partly 3D-printed drones that, among other things, have ground mobility, and can detect each other’s presence, then form into a larger, modular unit. Once together, the individual robots’ propellers work […]
The concept behind UrbanBuddy is pretty ingenious: enter a question about a particular city into an iPhone app, then have it promptly answered by a real-live resident of the city in question. It’s like a hyper-local ChaCha or KGB Answers (remember those guys?), or a more personable alternative to the old JFGI method. Find yourself in say, […]
Dronestagram, a new social network for the proud owners of unmanned aerial vehicles–not to be confused with a much less cheeky project of the same name–allows users to share their collective explorations in the realm of aerial photography, sharing their breathtaking photos of cityscapes, nature, sports, or whatever else may tickle their fancy, sans shameful Instagram […]
In the event that your relationship has taken a turn for the worse, here’s a new app – one that may help alleviate some of the inherent stress that can come along with the daunting task of a breakup. Developed by Jake Levine and Lauren Leto, BreakupText for iOS aims to provide a quick solution to avoid the heated arguments and tensions […]
