Thursday, August 26, 2004
THE EYE AS DISPLAY AND CAMERA| EyeTap is a device which allows, in a sense, the eye itself to function as both a display and a camera. EyeTap is at once the eye piece that displays computer information to the user and a device which allows the computer to process and possibly alter what the user sees. |Slashdot|
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Tuesday, August 24, 2004
OUTSOURCE YOURSELF| Outsource your job to get a new one! This is the new mantra doing the rounds in the US IT sector. |Metafilter|
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Monday, August 23, 2004
IMPLANTING ID CHIPS IN HUMANS| Advocates of technologies like radio frequency identification tags say their potentially life-saving benefits far outweigh any Orwellian concerns about privacy. RFID tags sewn into clothing or even embedded under people's skin could curb identity theft, help identify disaster victims and improve medical care, they say. |ZD Net|
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Friday, August 20, 2004
SAFETY GAP GROWS BETWEEN S.U.V.S AND CARS| People driving or riding in a sport utility vehicle in 2003 were nearly 11 percent more likely to die in an accident than people in cars, figures show. |NY Times|
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004
JAPAN UNVEILS FLYING MICRO-ROBOT| Japan's Seiko Epson Corporation said Wednesday it has developed a 12-gram flying micro-robot, the world's lightest. The robot, an advanced model of one released last year, can be remote-controlled by computer and has an on-board camera able to beam images wirelessly, Epson said. It is expected to be used in various fields such as surveillance and for searching dangerous and narrow places, the company said. |Wired|
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Saturday, August 14, 2004
YURI GITMAN INTERVIEW| As a teacher of a course called "Wireless Art" at Parsons School of Design, and director of the Arts Group at municipal infrastructure NYCWireless, Gitman has emerged as a visionary and effective innovator in bringing an artist's sensibility to the public wireless arena. In doing so, he's helping demonstrate that it isn't an arena, at all, but world we live in. |Julia Set||The Feature|
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Friday, August 06, 2004
MANDELBROT'S OPEN LETTER TO WALL STREET| Fortunately, bankers and regulators now realize the system is flawed. The world's central banks have been pushing for more sophisticated risk models - but what they need is one that takes into account long-term dependency, or the tendency of bad news to come in waves. A bank that weathers one crisis may not survive a second or a third. I thus urge the regulators, now drafting the New Basel Capital Accord, to regulate global bank reserves, to encourage the study and adoption of more-realistic risk models. If they do not, the number of crises will just keep growing. |Wired|
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Wednesday, August 04, 2004
DREAM MACHINE ON DISPLAY| On Thursday, August 12, West Portal Books (111 West Portal Ave., San Francisco) unveils a month-long Brion Gysin Dreamachine window display, featuring the psychoactive device in practically 24/7 operation. Though mild entheogenic effects may be felt through the window or inside the store during business hours, optimum viewing is experienced after dark with eyes closed. This will be the Bay Area's first ever Dreamachine exhibit, other than the machine's brief appearance during a William S. Burroughs memorial service held at the SF Art Institute in 1999. |BoingBoing|
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Tuesday, August 03, 2004
EDUCATION IN THE AGE OF PORTABLE BRAINS| College students are the leading edge in adapting to this new goldfish bowl, these new multi-tasking sense ratios. Some of us will hold on to the old ways by our fingernails, afraid of losing a coherent self. Others will plunge into the new collective nerve center, our various selves loosely joined in a partial free-fall at all times. |Wired|
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Monday, August 02, 2004
US DEPARTMENT OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY| The US Department of Art and Technology is the principal conduit for facilitating the artist's need to extend aesthetic inquiry into the broader culture where ideas become real action. It also serves the psychological and spiritual well-being of all Americans by supporting cultural efforts that provide immunity from the extension of new media technologies into the social sphere. |Coin-operated|
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WIRELESS BIKE ACTIVISM| New Yorker and Parsons grad Joshua Kinberg is a bike messenger of a different stripe. Instead of ferrying legal papers between lawyers, he uses a homemade, wireless, bicycle-mounted dot-matrix printer to spray protest messages in the street. |Wired|
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