Posts Tagged ‘yes please i’d like it now’

On the street finding its uses

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Indeed, the very ease with which pico projectors can be used to create social awkwardness could be a significant feature. Alexander Besher, one of the organizers of the pico projector film festival, thinks there could be significant use of pico projectors in political protests. Picture a nighttime war protest where hundreds of people have pico projectors showing graphic images of devastation on every available surface.

This was kinda ancillary to the article but man, what a great idea. Not one I’ve ever really heard before, either, but I can think of so many uses for these things now. Muwahahaha.

Die Antwoord – Enter The Ninja

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

First Blaumkamf now these guys. SA is apparently blowing up culturally. I’m not sure if they’re serious or parodic but they’re entertaining either way. Plenty of musical quotations from hip hop/electronica/jpop. And no matter what you think we can at least agree their production values are good.

stolen gleefully from boingboing

Techreport.com

Friday, November 27th, 2009

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techreport reinforces my belief that the internet is made out of kittens and pure magic. I got some new gear on sale and will have a new rig built by next week. Best of all? Thanks to my old system still being current and some other piece of luck, i’ll actually end up with a brand new computer and cash in my pocket – all thanks to randomly winning this free motherboard. Go Tech Report!

Uncanny Valley Full Speed Ahead

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

No shit. Check out this robot, singing, found by the enviable Pink Tentacle.

It’s not perfect by any means but we’re already on our way down that slope. I gotta get myself ahold of this Vocaloid software so I can make music with computers singing love songs to one another.

An open letter to Microsoft

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Dear Microsoft,

Buy this company. Buy it now. Buy it for a beelyon dollars if you have to. Give a free copy to all Windows 7 installs, downloadable over Windows Update. Sit back, watch Apple cry in the corner.

Then the real strategy begins. Put the same thing on Xbox. Start a 3d widget/app store – this part is especially important – really get on the ones with virtual stock displays so you can watch bar graphs rise and fall in real-time 3d, or for server admins to have little morphing 3d representations of the health of their networks chilling in the corner where they can keep an eye on things. Wedge it into the business atmosphere as being able to provide representational situational data for their applications/monitoring systems.

Allow this program to be further advanced and support dynamic lighting, particle effects, etc. Sky’s the limit, the desktop is now a physics toy. You will drive the sales of touch screen devices, the manufacturers will be *blanking* your *blanks* in gratitude (I have no idea what corporations do for each other? Sending their flowers?).

Think of the commercials. It will be glorious. “Yeah. Mac – OS it’s pretty. It’s shiny. But can it do this?” *high speed montage of icons flying, blowing up when they hit the recycle bin in a shower of sparks, etc etc* (Get some music by Air or Kraftwerk) “I’m a PC” *cut to a shot of mac boy crying in the shower trying to scrub himself clean.*