Tag: Technology
A programmer named Michael Birken created “Tetris Printer,” an algorithm that plays through the titular game in order to create an image. And because we’re operating at an extremely sophisticated level of nerdery here, the pictures it generates are classic video game characters: Mario, Samus Aran, Mrs. Pac-Man, and the like. Watch Tetris Printer in action […]
Technology has a way of giving us our deepest desires, for better or worse. The iPhone is destroying our attention spans. Soon enough, our Google Glass is going to record your life for you, identifying faces and remembering what you did last night. Google’s new mobile operating system is based around the premise of tracking […]
Yesterday, at the Wall Street Journal’s eleventh annual All Things Digital Conference, Regina Dugan of Motorola unveiled a new “vitamin” that when ingested is capable of storing your password data for later use. The vitamin is ingested and “activated” naturally by your stomach acids to create a unique 18-bit signal — an instant password authentication enacted by simply by touching a […]
Do you have a dumbphone, but still want to access internet things? Welcome to The Dumb Store. A project by Allison Burtch and Ramsey Nasser, just premiered week at the ITP graduate program showcase in Tisch. “We think that information should be available to everyone, irrespective of the hardware or software they have,” Burtch tells ANIMAL. The Dumb Store is truly a platform for everyone: […]
Lars von Trier’s hotly anticipated two-part epic Nymphomaniac did not make it to Cannes because they weren’t ready. They — parts of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, and various fucking pornstars — were still being rendered together into a seamless, hardcore celebrity experience. Producer Louise Vesth explains: We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had […]
This is one of those projects whose premise basically speaks for itself. A group of digital artists developed a program that runs Google’s satellite images of Earth through facial recognition software, finding the faces that are hidden on the planet’s landscape. Watch the brilliant software at work below, and see some of its findings in […]
The promise of Defense Distributed’s Liberator 3D-printed handgun–that it would “free” firearms from the firearms industry, putting a gun in the hands of anybody who wants one–is really a dot on the horizon. Cody Wilson and co. got one to fire, yes, but they did it with an $8,000 printer that looks like a vending […]
Amanda Ghassaei, the woman who brought you 3D-printed records, is back with yet another impressive alternative to vinyl: laser-cut maple and plywood. And not only do the wooden records look real pretty, they sound a hell of a lot better than their printed-plastic counterparts. But wood is still nowhere near bona fide vinyl, unfortunately. With […]
Oculus Rift — the very same virtual reality platform that that 90-year-old woman enjoys so very much — has gotten its very own guillotine simulator. The artificial dismemberment add-on called DisUnion was developed at the Exile Game Jam, a five-day game development “retreat” in which developers meet, hang out, and collaborate on their own independent projects. The creators insist […]
Yelp is great and all, but it’s seriously lacking in the get-me-to-the-nearest-pizza-as-soon-as-possible department. I mean, think about it: First, you have to open search, then type “pizza,” then figure out which result is the closest, then select it and ask Yelp to give you directions. Thankfully, Pizza Compass, released this week, simplifies that process significantly. […]
