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"Geminoid is a remote-control doppelganger droid designed by and modeled after Hiroshi Ishiguro"
"evoking the ancient with materials collected from the fossil bed of technology" / The perfect blend between hieroglyphic and microchips circuitry
maker of the Head, wearable sculpture
a blog on retrofuturism !
Predictions of the Year 2000
from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900
"reprogramming the firmware in these 1985 Epson LQ-500 printers to turn them into musical instruments"
dancing keepon
"... is a printed electronic circuit board in the shape of a crucifix. This handheld, wall-mountable device houses a battery-operated transmitter that broadcasts an ASCII, non-denominational version of the Lord's Prayer at 916 megahertz."
Research & development of a reusable autonomous character for realtime 3D focused on dramatical impact rather than simulation of natural behaviour. // by Entropy8Zuper
0AM is an independent, distributed laboratory based on multidisciplinary models of cultural expression, operating on the cusp of research, production, presentation and reflection of creative practices.
Okno is an interdisciplinary media center for art and technology in Brussels. It functions as a platform and umbrella organisation for code31.org mxHz.org and so-on.be
"At times they adopt the stance of a simple research worker and at others they behave as if they were the representatives of some supernatural power on earth trying to satisfy their desire to go beyond human powers."
author or YubNub
Blogjects - a neologism Julian Bleecker came up with for objects that blog - exemplify the soon-to-come 'Internet of Things', i.e. a network of tangible, mobile, chatty things enabled by the miniaturization, the ubiquity of consumer electronics and a perv
The notion is that the Internet is becoming less of a place we "go to" and more of a layer atop our entire everyday reality. As a result, the term "cyberspace," coined by William Gibson in 1984, just doesn't seem relevant anymore.
"Yesterday’s tomorrow, today."
"The system with a future. If you're looking for sensible, low-cost entry to full-function data processing, the 4331 opens a new dimension worth considering. It gives you power and capacity you require today and the ability to grow the way you want to...
"I was cleaning out some old files and came across this great IBM brochure from 1979...."
the grrreat blog of Régine Debatty