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"TeslaTouch infuses finger-driven interfaces with physical feedback. The technology is based on the electrovibration principle, which can programmatically vary the electrostatic friction between fingers and a touch panel. Importantly, there are no moving parts, unlike most tactile feedback technologies, which use vibration motors. This allows for different fingers to feel different sensations. When combined with an interactive graphical display, TeslaTouch enables the design of a wide variety of interfaces that allow the user to feel virtual elements through touch. For example, when dragging a file, the level of friction could convey the file size. Objects could "snap" into place when designing a presentation. Or perhaps with a quick "rub" of your email application's icon, you could sense how many emails are unread. Finally, imagine a (flat) touch keyboard where the virtual keys can be felt. The possibilities are endless."
(tags:tech )
UNESCO Culture Sector – Intangible Heritage – 2003 Convention :
The UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.
(tags:culture net )
Found Objects: proto-hauntologists (an irregular series), #1
"Still, judging by this September 1998 mini-profile of Drew Mulholland, you have to give props for his being way ahead of the game. Unless I'm grasping the wrong end of the stick, it sounds like he was on this path back in postpunk days (his 1996 release "The Sound of Pre-Punk" drew largely on material he'd done circa 1979-1980) and he actually first started messing with tape loops back in 1975. Nods to Joe Meek and "Tomorrow Never Knows"/Sgt. Pepper's era Beatles (as well as Radiophonic Workshop) confirm my sense that dub isn't really a major strand of British hauntology's DNA; the indigenous sources are more than sufficient."
(tags:hauntology music )
?Wilson? Lands At Fox Searchlight With Alexander Payne ? Deadline.com
"Fox Searchlight has made a deal for Wilson, a Dan Clowes-created graphic novel that the author will adapt as a potential directing vehicle for Alexander Payne."
(tags:comics film )
The Lesser Keys
Released on Tundra Dubs next Tuesday, the new EP from I†† continues the course of events laid out in the full Preliminary Invocations album released last month. The tracks here increase the atmosphere to something more subtly filmic, eventful, almost score like….
SPARKLINE: The Scent Of Falconer
"Crime," crooned the great detective Falconer. "Its musky discharge is the finest perfume to me. It is all I can do to stop myself from milking the juice of crime from suspects, like rare fragrance from a civet's glands. Of course, civets carry a variant of SARS, so you can't really chew on them the way you want to. I miss the days when you could have a good chew on a cat. Also people. Did you know that's illegal now? There is crime everywhere. Terribly good for the prostate."
Falconer, amazingly, has never been convicted of any crime.
SPARKLINES: ideas under 100 words. © Warren Ellis 2010
notebook 19nov10
(Taken with instagram at Tybee)
* hammersley:
Google News Blog: Credit where credit is due
New Google meta tags to declare origins of stories. MMmmmmmm lots of tasty second-order data to get from this, given proper timestamps too.
* melisaki:
Christian falangist; Beirut, Lebanon 1978
photo by Raymond Depardon for Magnum
* xplanes:
more of the George White Ornithopter, 1928
(via Paul Dunlop, from the personal collection of Tim White – the inventor's grandson)
I was going to do a Friday Telescreen photo call this wee...
I was going to do a Friday Telescreen photo call this week, because it's been a year since the last one, but then Katie West did Ass Day on Tumblr, and I thought, really, I'm not going to top that...
November 18, 2010
The Non-Stop Nothing
It's 1am. I just kind of looked up and took a breath. So far today I have:
* done a phone conference with a film producer and a screenwriter
* talked to a publisher about doing a blurb for a book
* worked with JahFurry in re: a gig I wasn't suited for, but knew a man who was
* processed the last week's worth of mail into labels and folders
* talked to film/tv agent, re-familiarised myself with a tv deal
* scribbled notes in Notebook C
* viewed and approved some "extras" footage for a DVD
* checked out sketches on a Thing
* caught up with Katie West, who has a new book out soon
* scribbled notes in Notebook M
* considered and made notes on two anthology invitations
* called on Twitter for #DoctorWhisky at around 9pm
* denounced Xeni Jardin for wanting to "jailbreak the sky"
* looked at and enjoyed a really beautiful, odd piece by Liam Sharp for this TRANSMET CBLDF benefit book that I know next to nothing about
* swore quite a lot at various bits of news
* pushed things to the blog and bookmarks
* dealt with Ariana jabbering at me in Japanese
And some stuff I forgot. It's 1am. I've done no actual writing all day. And yet I haven't bloody stopped doing stuff.
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