November 2010

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A Screen Made of 25 iPads

A Screen Made of 25 iPads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iZxA4JElx4 If you happened to find yourself at Tokyo Designer's Week this year, you surely saw iProject25 - a just-shy-of-completely-monstrous...

Erasing A “Friend”: An Examination of “Friends” On the Internet

Erasing A “Friend”: An Examination of “Friends” On the Internet

I remove people from Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks on a daily basis — not by choice, but because...

Facebook’s Accidental Misogyny

Facebook’s Accidental Misogyny

Now this is an odd bug, if I've ever heard of one. Apparently, thousands of female Facebook users have been...

Guy Installs Camera Into The Back of His Head In the Name of Art

Guy Installs Camera Into The Back of His Head In the Name of Art

I'm gonna spare you the obvious 'eyes in the back of your head' joke, except for this sentence, where I...

RIM Flaunts Flashier Browser – Apple Fans Gon’ Hate

RIM Flaunts Flashier Browser – Apple Fans Gon’ Hate

You just hit 'play' on a video touting the PlayBook's allegedly 'faster' and all-around more awesome browser than the iPad's....

Why Next-Gen Consoles Will Be About The Network, Not Hardware

Why Next-Gen Consoles Will Be About The Network, Not Hardware

With the recent successful launches of Microsoft's Kinect and Sony's Playstation Move, it is now more likely that this generation...

Facebook Messages is an Attempt to Fix What’s Broken about Web Communication

Facebook Messages is an Attempt to Fix What’s Broken about Web Communication

Now that Facebook have announced their new messaging system, the reactions are pouring in: it has reinvented messaging; it's trying...

Chinese Web Game Market Explodes

Chinese Web Game Market Explodes

Three things are now certain in life: death, paying taxes, and Chinese growth. China just so happens to be the...

Apple’s Big Announcement: Disappointing

Apple’s Big Announcement: Disappointing

I don't know about you, but I was expecting something a little bit more from today's iTunes announcement. Streaming music?...

Magazines Explore Augmented Ads, But It Won’t Save Them

Magazines Explore Augmented Ads, But It Won’t Save Them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTeJW3IDrI0 Augmented Reality has been gaining popularity with the growth of smart phones throughout the world, and it appears that...

Hacked Kinect Art Program Totally Rules Despite Current Uselessness

Hacked Kinect Art Program Totally Rules Despite Current Uselessness

http://vimeo.com/16818988 Because you're awesome, have this quick video of Mehmet Akten playing with his prototype for a 3D art program...

Because You Need to Fit an Enormous Amount of Text Into an Excruciatingly Small Space

Because You Need to Fit an Enormous Amount of Text Into an Excruciatingly Small Space

I'm a fan of 6pt type, but this is ridiculous. Computer science professor Ken Perlin has decided to claim the...