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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Alexandre Farto's Inconstant Murals

Mural Painter Alexandre Farto (aka Vhils) paints murals and then scratches and carves into them to suggest inconstance and yet permanence.

Friday, August 7, 2009

Elegant Engineering



Dean Kamen's group at DEKA was presented with a problem by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). What impresses me is the attention the engineers give to the suble and supple aspects of their design and the ability to translate thoughts of motion, almost, to impulse or the macro functions of the arm. Kamen is well known for having designed the Segway and the iBOT Mobility System - a wheelchair robot that climbs stairs and morphs itself to overcome obstacles traditional wheelchair cannot overcome.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Why Twitter Works



Twitter and Blogger co-founder Evan Williams explains the social phenomenon of Twitter before the TED Conference.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Sixth Sense Brain Tool



MIT's Media Lab has always been on the forefront of designing new interfaces between human action and computers. A large part of their study has been motion and gesture as a command for using computers. Since its beginning, Media Lab has always had a bit of a Hollywood complex, relating many of its exploration to movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and other science-fiction fantasies.