Eye Trackings
3M Visual Attention Service After decades’ worth of vision research, Minnesota-based conglomerate 3M has tuned up its Visual Attention Service, an algorithm that can scan all types of content to determine exactly where the average human eye is most likely to be drawn. That’s the question that advertisers and designers alike have tried to figure … Read more
Fake computer generated pop-star, Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGYTWBrtR14
Ciudad Grupo Santander, Madrid
Interactive Visitors Center Interactive wall, swarm robots, augmented reality environment all in one commercial space. Project done by YDreams
Placing Landmarks on the Genome Map
Supercomputers and next-generation gene sequencers allow researchers to explore DNA and heredity. Since 2001, the cost of DNA sequencing a human genome has dropped from billions to tens of thousands of dollars, enabling more focused investigations of gene expression. This has greatly improved scientists’ ability to understand biological systems and their relation to illness. Many … Read more
An On-Off Switch for Memory?
For the first time, scientists have recreated the brain’s learning process and can restore long-forgotten memories. Scientists have developed an on-off memory switch that helped laboratory rats remember a behavior that they had forgotten. The brain prosthesis marks the first time that researchers have been able to duplicate the brain’s learning process, restoring memories that … Read more
Flexible Surfaces
Thinfilm phone that will make current smartphone obsolete in 5 to 10 years. The world’s first interactive paper computer is set to revolutionize the world of interactive computing. The smartphone prototype, called PaperPhone is best described as a flexible iPhone – it does everything a smartphone does, like store books, play music or make phone … Read more
Mashups: Humanities and Conventional Language with Produced Future Imagery
After attempting to “mash-up” philosophers speaking with video imagery from produced future visions, I realized that the power that your mind has to fill in gaps and make connections is incredible. It made it possible for anything that even vaguely had a visual cue relating to the spoken dialog to be connected mentally. I wondered … Read more
From LEA interview with artist Stanza
“Can we use new technologies to imagine a world where we are liberated and empowered, where finally all of the technology becomes more than gimmicks and starts to actually work for us or are these technologies going to control us, separate us, divide us, create more borders? Will the securitization of city space create digital … Read more
Mashups: Philosophers and Overly-Produced Futures
We had been discussing “mashing up” humanities speakers with overly-produced future videos for awhile, and these are two rough, unedited cuts of that idea I put together to see what comes out of it. The first shows corporate visions of the future while the audio is a current philosopher discussing alternative hedonism, and the second … Read more
Spatial representation of an event
I was interested to see how you can archive an event that happened spatially. The content I thought about including within this space will include: – Twitter feeds before, during and after the event – Program of the event – Participants in the event – Media produced by the event organizer (video, slideshows, sound) – … Read more