A custom bracelet of a sound-wave rendered in 3D “designed” by the waveform of the message it encodesI would die from immense happiness it somebody got me one of theseThat’s flipping cool.
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January 23, 2013
October 10, 2012
A new class of electronics can dissolve and disappear on a pre-set schedule, within a few minutes or a few years, depending on when you want them to go away.
They could live in the body and deliver drugs, they could stick on the exterior of buildings or tanks, and they can become compost instead of metal scrap—in other words, they turn the common conception of electronics completely upside down.
Transient electronics, as they’ve been dubbed, are a combination of silk and silicon designed to work seamlessly in our bodies and in our environments.
In a new study, researchers built a thermal device designed to monitor infection in a rodent and a 64-pixel digital camera—all from dissolvable material.
Fascinating! What if your old cellphone just disappeared? “Dissolvable material” seems kinda freaky, but … maybe a good thing if it’s real??
More: Awesome New Electronics Can Dissolve and Disappear When They’re No Longer Needed | Popular Science
Oh wow.
(via poptech)
August 16, 2012
Smell-O-Vision might finally become a reality. A concept machine, the “food-printer”, proposes printing cards that are scented with food by using an aroma sensor to mix aroma inks that are stored on the machine. Saw this here. See more here.
This would take the photo-gourmand culture of Instagram to a whole new level.
(via poptech)
June 11, 2012
![theatlantic:
Microsoft Wants to Serve You Ads Based on What You Do in Your Living Room
You know the routine: Browse a commercial website and you’ll start seeing ads for that website (and perhaps its competitors) sprinkled across the web. Email about an upcoming trip and ads will begin appearing across the top of your email for hotels in your destination. Even if it provokes discomfort, we have become accustomed to the idea that the trails we leave online will be mined and targeted advertisements — those that respond to the emails we have typed and the websites we have visited — will come into our lines of sight.
But what if that data set — the data that informs the targeting — expanded beyond the words and clicks we input through our keyboards and our cursors? What if it included your body language as you slumped on the couch after a long day at the office or the hug you shared with your partner upon receiving some good news? What if advertisers could see not the trail you left online, but the life you lead in your living room?
A vision for such a world is set down in the text of a patent application from Microsoft for “Targeting Advertisements Based on Emotion” released last week. There are plenty of otherpatents for “targeting advertisements based on emotion,” many of which assess “emotion” based on the sorts of web trails we know advertisers watch. But Microsoft has something those other patent-holders don’t have: the Microsoft Kinect.
Read more. [Image: An en Alain/Flickr]
In Microsoft’s America, television watches YOU!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5gtpdeTun1qcokc4o1_1280.jpg)
Microsoft Wants to Serve You Ads Based on What You Do in Your Living Room
You know the routine: Browse a commercial website and you’ll start seeing ads for that website (and perhaps its competitors) sprinkled across the web. Email about an upcoming trip and ads will begin appearing across the top of your email for hotels in your destination. Even if it provokes discomfort, we have become accustomed to the idea that the trails we leave online will be mined and targeted advertisements — those that respond to the emails we have typed and the websites we have visited — will come into our lines of sight.
But what if that data set — the data that informs the targeting — expanded beyond the words and clicks we input through our keyboards and our cursors? What if it included your body language as you slumped on the couch after a long day at the office or the hug you shared with your partner upon receiving some good news? What if advertisers could see not the trail you left online, but the life you lead in your living room?
A vision for such a world is set down in the text of a patent application from Microsoft for “Targeting Advertisements Based on Emotion” released last week. There are plenty of otherpatents for “targeting advertisements based on emotion,” many of which assess “emotion” based on the sorts of web trails we know advertisers watch. But Microsoft has something those other patent-holders don’t have: the Microsoft Kinect.
Read more. [Image: An en Alain/Flickr]
In Microsoft’s America, television watches YOU!
June 5, 2012
Prototype of a “dynamic touchscreen” with physical keys that rise up and back down when no longer needed. Incredible.
via The Verge
This is awesome. Consider your mind blown, kids.
(Source: vimeo.com)
March 28, 2012
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The Best Thing to Happen to Toast Since Sliced Bread
Do you make toast in the morning? Do you look at the weather forecast? IMAGINE a world in which you could accomplish both of these onerous tasks in one easy step.
Yes, that is the dream of someone going by the username of “Uroemer” who has entered this bold “idea” in the Ideabird M2M Innovation Contest, a competition put together by “an amazing group of companies including Deloitte, Deutsche Telecom, HYVE and The RWTH-TIM Research Group … with prizes worth over $10,000, [for the] wildest and best ideas for tracking anything - people, animals or objects of any size.”
Uroemer’s plan is to build a toaster that “receives the updated weather information for its current location via m2m or WLAN and burns ‘today’s weather forecast’ via template as an icon on your slice of toast.”
Let the naysayers of progress chew on this! The future is finally, finally here.
(And yes, that is the photoshopped toast that they submitted to the contest.)
This is a fabulous, adorable, wonderfully whimsical (and rather useful!) idea. I would totally buy this.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1lpsk8F0P1qcokc4o1_1280.jpg)
The Best Thing to Happen to Toast Since Sliced Bread
Do you make toast in the morning? Do you look at the weather forecast? IMAGINE a world in which you could accomplish both of these onerous tasks in one easy step.
Yes, that is the dream of someone going by the username of “Uroemer” who has entered this bold “idea” in the Ideabird M2M Innovation Contest, a competition put together by “an amazing group of companies including Deloitte, Deutsche Telecom, HYVE and The RWTH-TIM Research Group … with prizes worth over $10,000, [for the] wildest and best ideas for tracking anything - people, animals or objects of any size.”
Uroemer’s plan is to build a toaster that “receives the updated weather information for its current location via m2m or WLAN and burns ‘today’s weather forecast’ via template as an icon on your slice of toast.”
Let the naysayers of progress chew on this! The future is finally, finally here.
(And yes, that is the photoshopped toast that they submitted to the contest.)
This is a fabulous, adorable, wonderfully whimsical (and rather useful!) idea. I would totally buy this.
March 26, 2012
The potential shopping cart of the future will know your shopping list, follow you around, and check you out when you’re done.
(Source: youtube.com)
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Madeleine L’Engle, The Rock That Is Higher
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“A painting is a visual path that looking follows. A musical composition does the same for listening. Art is a summoning of attention. To create it...”
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“If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.”— Frederick Buechner (via quotedojo)
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Ulisse Aldrovandi, Circa 1570
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Venturing Out in Different Way
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“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
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I want to be Neil’s biographer…
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Soul-warmer of the day: Maira Kalman on happiness and the human condition. Pair with the equally wonderful Fail Safe.
