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February 20, 2010

The Karim Rashid Asus Netbook

*Well whaddya know. A designer netbook by an actual designer. And in a confrontational, no-nostalgia hot pink, too.


*I'm tempted to get one of these, even though it would likely be seething with zero-day Chinese botnet viruses inside a week.








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Published on February 20, 2010 01:04

February 19, 2010

Mujicomp

*Okay, after reading that earlier post about the endless heaps of tangled indefinable data require to create "spimes," now get your head around the pure limpid low-key Nipponese simplicity of "Mujicomp."

http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2010/02/19/matt-jones-on-mujicomp-and-mujicompfrastructures-at-technoark/

(((("massive semantic heaps of everythingness" "mujicompfrastructure")))

(((Now you know why interaction designers get paid! Tra la la!)))

"In his presentation, he (((Matt Jones, who...

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Published on February 19, 2010 11:02

Spime Watch: Defining Post-Industrial Design

*Not as easy as it sounds in the manifesto, right? But if it ever actually happens in real life, it's not gonna be brought by angel-dust. It'll have to emerge from some structure or system that's already there.

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/eric-hunting-on-defining-post-industrial-design/2009/10/29

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Eric Hunting meditates and strategizes on the way forward from here to there.

"I've been thinking more on this lately -particularly as I've recently been working on an article on...

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Published on February 19, 2010 10:51

Simpliquity

*Hmm. Nifty notion — desk lamps that cast pools of interactive video augmentation. I wonder if that scheme actually works.

via @nicolasnova

http://simpliquity.ch/Simpliquity/Simpliquity.html

"How does it work?

"Our interactive lamps contain a camera and a projector that recognize documents and objects and project digital information on top of them. The lamps may contain a computer, which makes them independent, or be used as peripherals and must then be connected to an external computer such a ...

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Published on February 19, 2010 10:38

How slums can save the planet

*If you're gonna drink from the pure clean stream that is Favela Chic, you might as well accept it from the Maestro, no less a man than Stewart Brand:

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/01/how-slums-can-save-the-planet/

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The magic of squatter cities is that they are improved steadily and gradually by their residents. To a planner's eye, these cities look chaotic. I trained as a biologist and to my eye, they look organic. Squatter cities are also unexpectedly green. They have maximum...

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Published on February 19, 2010 10:04

February 18, 2010

Showtime: Animism by ToDo.It

*Projection-mapping.



Animism Projections from Muhka Web TV on Vimeo.


"From Jan. 22nd until May 2nd Extra City and M HKA present 'Animism', an exhibition on 2 locations. Outdoor projections in the city of Antwerp (Belgium) offer an introduction and a public invitation. Animation by ToDo (Italy), music by Dimitri Brusselmans (Boenox, Monky Pussy). Projections by Beam Inc (www.beam-inc.eu)."


More info: extracity.org, muhka.be.







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Published on February 18, 2010 13:44

Should we clone Neanderthals? Seriously.

*That headline may sound like tabloid bait, but this is quite a thoughtful and well-researched article. It had never occurred to me, for instance, that cloned Neanderthal stem cells and tissues might have commercial biomedical applications.

*But one rather imagines they would.

*It's also quite eerie to learn that the best current candidates for Neanderthal cloning are a group of murdered Neanderthals who were devoured by cannibals 49,000 years ago. Imagine these gruesome cannibal victims...

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Published on February 18, 2010 11:18

Showtime: Nuit Blanche

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Published on February 18, 2010 11:12

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