Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 727

Augmented Reality: Moving Brands book-cover hack

*Nice one.

"On Friday, 25th September we launched our first Moving Brands paper, 'Living identity'. By its nature, the paper is already out of date so we made a 'living' cover which uses augmented reality technology to allow people to see our latest thoughts, news and updates. Using just the cover (also download-able from movingbrands.com/livingidentity) and a webcam, users can view live Moving Brands content using gestures to browse and scroll. We believe this is the first time augmented...

Marijuana legalizers do victory lap, stop to cough and wheeze

*This screed is reminiscent of nothing so much as successful anti-abortion campaigning.

There must be at least some anti-abortion pro-marijuana legalizers; they

must be jumpin' through hoops now.

*If you can't walk to political victory, roll there, blind from glaucoma, under chemotherapy.

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thef...

The Medical Cannabis Victory: A Textbook Case of Organizing and Resistance
October 20, 2009
By Al...

Meanwhile, on the surface of Mars

*The dust devils that scatter dirt on the the Martian surface can be eight kilometers high.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091021.html

Urban Farm magazine.

*I don't believe in "urban farming." I think it's a fad.

*Unless it's, like, urban farming in a re-used iron lung powered by

Arduino boards and harvested by ultra-rapid robot hands, in which case

it's STILL a fad, but also the sort of thing we're bound to cover here

at Beyond the Beyond.

*First issue out. You're gonna want this, because launching a magazine

when the magazine business is dying like freeze-stricken grapefruit

is so 2010.

Black Lightning

*It's exhilarating when Russian cinema becomes as silly as American cinema.

Share Festival 2009, Torino

*It's a sure bet I'll be there.

Per chi si fosse perso le news letter e fosse interessato a seguire

Share Festival.

Simona

ENGLISH VERSION BELOW

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Newsletter 14.10.2009

Share Festival – Market Forces 2009

/SPOTLIGHT ON….EXHIBITION!

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Cari amici di Share Festival,
Ecco il primo dei 3 approfondimenti che vi accompagneranno per queste
ultime settimane di attesa. Per arrivare preparati all'inaugurazione di
Share Festival – Market 2009, il 3 Novembre 2009...

More high-speed robotics

*We've run video of this gizmo before, but I see they've refined its chops.

*The tweezers are especially uncanny.

*Via MAKEZINE.

Spime Watch: more from Pachube

*They've sure got the gift of the gab. By the way, it's pronounced "Patch Bay."

http://www.frontiereconomy.com/2009/10/wiring-up-the-internet-of-things/

> SYSTEMIC DISRUPTIONS

Wiring Up the Internet of Things

An interview with Usman Haque, founder of Pachube.com, an online platform for realtime data.

What is Pachube? What were the events and thought processes that led to its creation?

Pachube is a generalized data brokerage for a wide range of entities: from sensors to actuators, mobile devices t...

Augmented Reality: Um Abraço Brasileiro

*Liking the regional flavor here.

Spime Watch: the Internet of European Things

Greetings! Rob

http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/

The Internet of Things (IOT) is a vision. Yet it is being build today. The

stakeholders are known, the debate has yet to start. The European

Commission published its action plan for IOT in june of this year. In

hundreds of years our real needs have not changed. We want to be loved,

feel safe, have fun, be relevant in work and friendship, be able to

support our families and somehow play a role - however small - in the

larger scheme of things.

So ...