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IKEA are going to start selling their own swing on a digital camera. It’s made of cardboard called Knäppa It’ll hold 40 photographs at a time and plugs directly into your USB port. While it’s not the prettiest camera I do love the idea of a screen-less digital camera that brings people back to the wait-and-see days of film.
Well that’s neat
Eadweard J. Muybridge — one of the original men in motion — celebrated with a Google Doodle
Eadweard J. Muybridge — born 182 years ago today — invented the motion picture while trying to settle an argument about trotting horses.
He did this with the help of California governor and race-horse owner Leland Stanford, who had taken it upon himself to prove that there was a moment of suspension during a trot — a point where all four hooves were off the ground.
It seems like a trivial exercise, but the moment passes too quickly to spot with the human eye and 19th-century cameras weren’t nearly fast enough to capture it. It was an unsolvable puzzle.
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Clarence “Skip” Ellis was the first African-American to earn a PhD in Computer Science. He helped develop the concept of clicking icons which lead to the development of user friendly operating systems such as Windows or Mac.
Most computer users, even highly proficient users, would not be able to operate their computer without this simple concept. Thank you, sir!Learn more about Dr. Ellis here. (via University of Buffalo)
HELL YEAAAAH
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This is apparently coming out in 3 days.
In 3 days, I’m going to start to be a total jogging addict, I think
i’ll finally lose weight
Alex look we can exercise now! :D
Nessa. Nessa.
HOLY SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT this is a genius app! Everyone’s gonna jog now!
where’s my ipod…
I want this so bad!!!
comaumbiscoito:8bitmaximo:myfrankworld:
Recharge your iPhone with wood
Need this for the apocalypse, so I can listen to my tunes while I hatchet everyone to death who approach my mountain filled with treasures.
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Disturbing development at Twitter: countries will silence tweets
Here’s Twitter: “Until now, the only way we could take account of those countries’ limits was to remove content globally. Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world. We have also built in a way to communicate transparently to users when content is withheld, and why.” This is not a good thing.
It’s Official: Google Is Evil Now
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In a radical privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users across all services—email, Search, YouTube and more—sharing information with no option to opt out. The change was announced in a blog post today, and will go into effect March 1.
I have GMail on my Nook Colour, and I went to search something online when I realized it had imported my searches from my computer. That’s right, it had SAVED my searches and then sent them to another device without any permission.
woah woah woah no no no
Foxconn Employees Threaten Mass Suicide
Foxconn, the world’s largest electronic component maker (think: Apple, Amazon, Nintendo, Dell, Panasonic… well, you get the point) is not a nice place to work. So rampant have the suicides been that last year the company made workers sign pledges not to kill themselves.
Via The Atlantic Wire:
As American consumers ogle over shiny new gadgets at this week’s Consumer Electronic’s Show, the workers that make those products are threatening mass suicide for the horrid working conditions at Foxconn. 300 employees who worked making the Xbox 360 stood at the edge of the factory building, about to jump, after their boss reneged on promised compensation, reports English news site Want China Times. It’s not like this is the first time working conditions at Foxconn have made news outside China. But iPhone and Xbox sales surely haven’t lagged in the wake of those revelations and neither Apple nor Microsoft has done much of anything to fix things.
As The Atlantic Wire points out, this week’s This American Life features a trip to a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China where approximately 350,000 to 450,000 people are employed.
You can listen to the episode here.
Image: Workers at Foxconn via China Southern Weekly
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Remember what the world’s biggest websites looked like at Launch? (via:Mashable)
Weird, huh…
These are absolutely hideous…
I still can’t get over the fact that Zuckerberg put his face in the top bar of the Facebook page.
omggg
it’s like looking at baby pictures
they were so little
so cute
woah!
Sometimes I stumble across sites that still look like this and I cry
World’s first 128Gb 20nm NAND flash could pack 2TB into a 2.5” SSD
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Yup, that little modern marvel on a fingertip right there is 128 gigabytes of data. It’s the love child of a joint venture between Intel and Micron. This new high capacity flash storage, which could give you 2 terabytes in a 2.5” drive or a smaller 1TB thumbdrive should be hitting the consumer market in 2013.
This is awesome.
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Reblogging without further comment, because none is necessary.
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one thing i miss a lot about germany: i can bike or bus anywhere within the city and take the train anywhere else.
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^ Yep.
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Digital Narcotics May Be the Future of Drugs
by Olivia Solon
Technologists will become the next drug dealers, administering narcotics through brain stimulation, according to Rohit Talwar, the founder of Fast Future Research, speaking at Intelligence Squared’s If conference.
Talwar was charged by the government to investigate the drugs landscape over the next 20 years, exploring scenarios going beyond the traditional model of gangs producing and shipping drugs around the world.
He described how the world of genomic sequencing and services such as 23 and Me open up possibilities for tailoring drugs to the individual, delivering effects based on your physiology — which could apply just as effectively to narcotics as it could medicines.
He cited research from the University of California, Berkeley where neuroscientists were able to replicate images people were seeing based on the brain patterns of activity. When combined with transcranial magnetic stimulation — which has been used to inhibit brain functions such as the ability to speak or remember — it opens up the possibility of electronically delivering targeted highs.
He said: “You could also visualize the experience and then tailor the effect to what you want. This nano-bio-info-cogno convergence gets us into some very interesting spheres.”
One scenario he imagines would make use of biological proteins manufactured with information-processing technology to deliver effects that could be triggered by electromagnetic stimulation. He imagined that they could be used in a club environment where the DJ would release nanoparticles that the audience could ingest. These could then be used to trigger the desired state at a particular point during his or her set using an electrical stimulus (from a headset) into the crowd’s brains.
“The more we can understand the brain, the more we can deliver positive effects such as improved memory function. Do you want to get high? Mellow? Actually I want to live my life in my head as half-human half-cat,” he joked.
Woah technology, way to catch up with the Matrix movies..
Today is a significant day in the history of the Internet. On 6 August 1991, exactly twenty years ago, the World Wide Web became publicly available. Its creator, the now internationally known Tim Berners-Lee, posted a short summary of the project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup and gave birth to a new technology which would fundamentally change the world as we knew it. The World Wide Web has its foundation in work that Berners-Lee did in the 1980s at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. He had been looking for a way for physicists to share information around the world without all using the same types of hardware and software. This culminated in his 1989 paper proposing ‘A large hypertext database with typed links’. (via 20 years ago today, the World Wide Web was born - TNW Insider)
