The bleeding edge of electronic music is not for the fearful.
Josh Boughey has been experimenting with alternate strumming methods and firmware versions for a long time.
His newest experimental instrument, The Stribe is an 8-channel multi-touch controller for music or video software inspired by the Monome 40h.
The Stribe is an open source project with lots of documentation and it’s own forum, so break out your soldering iron and get blinking.
Graffiti Research Lab built their own bullet time camera rig for a hip hop video they shot with Styles P, AZ and the Large Professor.
Not only is the video sick, but they left instructions on how to build your own ghetto rig.
Lots more pictures here; and then you have the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUfyu-RFWYs
When Newark Mayor Cory Booker unveiled his plans for the Community Eye urban surveillance system in Newark police director Garry MacCarthy said, “I kind of feel like a kid on Christmas morning.”
We are EXTREMELY wary of any proposal, plan, new technology, or new law that makes a police director feel like “a kid on Christmas morning.”
Mayor Booker’s plan calls for 100 cameras and audio gunshot detectors to go up around eight square miles of Newark.
The system will supposedly be able to tell the difference between car backfires and gunshots,…
It’s amazing how quickly we, as a world culture, go about engineering the worst possible futures we’ve imagined in literature and film.
Subtopia posted last week about automated border defense systems in development around the Middle East–Israel, Saudi Arabia–smart robotic turrets that kill on sight. Robotic snipers along the Gaza Strip.
The latest evolution of Skynet went into space last month. Satellites working to more effectively network battlefield communication. Wireless uplinks. Marines navigating Fallujah with Google map on their Treo.
We seem giddy to put war in the hands of machines where it…
The June issue of Discover magazine contains some fascinating interviews between two chatbots, ALICE and Jabberwacky. The most advanced chatbots, like these two, remember every question they’ve been asked and try to use those phrases again, thus appearing to learn with a kind of wiki brain.
Most of the interviews are slanted towards the existential.
ALICE: Are you alive?
Jabberwacky: Perhaps.
A: Why the uncertain tone?
J: Everything is uncertain except for five facts.
A: The whole universe?
J: And we both might just be some ones and zeros in the computer…
While Skynet has been around since the sixties, 15 years before the first Terminator movie, we can’t help getting giddy at the way the world continues to emulate our favorite films. Or is it the other way around?
Skynet started out in 1969 as a series of British military satellites used to coordinate troop communications on the battlefield. Now Skynet is run by the ominously private Paradigm Secure Communications.
PSC launched the Skynet 5A satellite in March to help UK troops in Afghanistan. The $7 billion project will send up…
Maybe you’ve seen this already. Hiroshi Ishiguro, professor at Osaka University and researcher at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, created an android duplicate of himself called Geminoid.
Geminoid mirrors Hiroshi’s movements through nodular sensors attached to the scientist’s body, breathes using compressed air, and responds to being poked. It was such a labor of love that Geminoid’s hair came from Hiroshi’s head.
Watch the video where Hiroshi speculates on the near future when android duplicates (he calls them clones) will replace absent businessmen at board meetings and you won’t know the…
Daisuke Inoue, the man who invented karaoke in 1971, never bothered to patent his tiny invention, thus missing his chance to become one of Japan’s richest men. Some put his losses at more than $150 million:
“I’m not an inventor,” says the 65-year-old in his small Osaka office, where the first version of the karaoke machine sits in a corner. “I simply put things that already exist together, which is completely different. I took a car stereo, a coin box and a small amp to make the karaoke. Who would even…
In anticipation of Earth Day on April 22 and Bi-Fold III: GRN on April 24, LVHRD is rounding up all of our old electronic hodgepodge. Laptops, cell phones, fax machines, iPods, and lots of other gadgets have toxic innards you can’t recycle regularly. That’s why we’re taking our heap of short-circuited, fried, and burned-out junk to Union Square on Sunday where the NYC Wastele$$ campaign will make sure to dispose of them properly.
If you’ve got a dead first-generation iPod staring out you sadly from underneath a pile of comic books, take pity on…
From rhizome.org we got word that Czech fine arts student Pavel Sterec has created an autonomous biorobotic plant that climbs up a living tree and drops digital fruit in order to test “the feasibility of an intimate and balanced relationship between the artificial and the natural.”
Pavel explains it better than we will.
Are you dating the sort of person who would appreciate the fact that you went and downloaded a series of St. Valentine’s Day Adobe Photoshop brush plugins in order to craft them a lovely, albeit photoshopped, love letter? If you’re not, shouldn’t you be? And if you already are, can you leave a comment for us so we can hang out sometime?
The month of love has officially begun, but does anyone really understand the intricacies of the human heart? There is no formula, no recipe nor prescription when it comes to where love comes from, when it shall strike, and who will one day be lucky enough to feel the teasing prick of cupid’s arrow.
That being said, there are certain steps one may undergo to ensure a degree of preparedness when it comes time to take the plunge. Take, for example, the Love Calculator. What at first glance appears to…
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