Art*o*mats
are retired cigarette vending machines that
have been converted to vend art.
There are 76 active machines in
various locations throughout
the country.
[ find an art*o*mat near you. ]The experience of pulling the knob alone is quite
a thrill, but you also walk away with an original
work of art. Ker-plunk! What an easy way to
become an art collector.
[ art*o*mat samples ]
DNA Hack is website for Amateur Genetic Engineering. The site has tons
of resources, supplies, how-tos and this interesting snippet from
Michael Schrage in the June 2003 Technology Review: “Maybe
bathtub biotech will be the next to capture the mindshare of the techie
tinkerers. Maybe bioinformatics and the diffusion of genetic
engineering technologies will inspire a new generation of bio-hackers.
Certainly the technologies are there for those inclinded to genetically
edit their plants or pets. Maybe a mouse or E. coli genome becomes the
next operating system for hobbyists to profitably twiddle. Perhaps this
decade will bring a Linus Torvalds or Bill Gates of bio-hackerdom — a
hobbyist-turned-entrepreneur who can simultaneously innovate and market
his or her DNA-driven ideas.” Link.
[By MAKE]
WARNING: This game is highly addictive. The creators of this productare not responsible for homework not getting done, unwashed dishes, or any other forgotten chores.
20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. 20Q.net is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets.And they now have a toy!
Buy here!
This 20Q pocket version is about the size of a yo-yo and contains a neural-network with a quarter of a million synaptic connections. Cheeky and sleek, the 20Q pocket version captures the quirky personality of the artificial intelligence behind the 20Q.net Web site.
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The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players add little more than the possibility to perform random temporal jumps between image frames. The goal of the Khronos Projector is to go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate “islands of time” as well as “temporal waves” are created within the visible frame. This is done by interactively reshaping a two-dimensional spatio-temporal surface that “cuts” the spatio-temporal volume of data generated by a movie. |
Read More about the Khronos Projector (text taken from there site)
From this point on, there will be no rebloging. So there wont be anymore of those [Via ___ ]. The posting will slowdown, and for the next week the site will be undergoing changes. The membership is now open for all to join, so get in the action and post what you find.
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Is this the new google? Icerocket is making a blast on computers everywhere. The best part of the normal web search is that it shows a preview of what the website looks like, i dont know why but it makes it easyer to pinpoint the search. They could make the News section better organized, but the IceSpy is pretty cool, it lets you see what other people are searching. You can also search blogs, Phone pics, and Multi Media. it doesnt have as many features and may not be as simple as google, but its olmost there. This could be the Google killer. Check it out!
I just watched Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy opening day, and had to find some toys for it. so here they are via WickedCoolStuff
Marvin The Paranoid
Android Action Figure
$14.95
"Life, don’t talk to me about life." Marvin the Paranoid Android
comes to life in the spaced out comedy The Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy!This 6" action figure of Marvin is a detailed likeness of the character
as he appears in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
Marvin 10" RotoCast Figure with Light Up Eyes
$21.95
This poseable plastic and vinyl version of everyone’s favorite manic-depressive
robot features light-up eyes and a poseable body. The must-have piece
for fans of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
8″ Plush Figure Set
$70.75These movie replica plush are right out of the movie. Each 8″ knitted plush
carefully represents Marvin, Trillian, Arthur, Zaphod, and Ford when they
appear in plush form during a moment of Infinite Improbability during The
Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
“INFINITE IMPROBABILITY DRIVE” Wall Clock
Sent in from a anonymous reader.
$20.99
Decorate any room in your home or office with the 10 inch
“INFINITE IMPROBABILITY DRIVE” wall clock. Black plastic case. Requires 1 AA battery (included). Buy here
For more Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy products, visit HITCHHIKERS GUIDE FAN STORE & wickedcoolstuff
What, listening to that those two namedropping Le Tigre and LCD Soundsystem tracks wasn’t enough of a lesson to get
you started on your road to proper hipsterdom? Well, if you want to kill two birds with one stone, just hook up the
Hipster iPod, a 60GB iPod that comes pre-loaded for $900 with 900 properly music-snobbish albums, including but not
limited to The Shaggs, Can, T-Rex, The Modern Lovers, the No New York comp, Gang of Four, The Pop Group, Throbbing
Gristle, The Homosexuals, The Fall, and many, many more. Now all you have to do live in Williamsburg and you’re totally
set to kick out the mad jams. And yes, we know this is a joke. Or if not that, still highly, indubitably illegal at
best.
P.S. - No comments about us living in Williamsburg, please.
[Via TUAW]
THE SINGULARITY: In futurology, a technological singularity is a predicted point in the development of a civilisation at which technological progress accelerates beyond the ability of present-day humans to fully comprehend or predict. The singularity can more specifically refer to the advent of smarter-than-human intelligence, and the cascading technological progress assumed to follow.
Wikipedia - the online encyclopedia
>You: give me your brain
>You: why dont you just download me?
>Intellibuddy: Probably there is a buzz in here. No you download me.
>You: no you!
>Intellibuddy: Um, “No you download me”? Me, User ?
>You: your a user?
>You: what do you got?
>Intellibuddy: I like to socialize.
>You: i think I like you… more then a friend.
>Intellibuddy: Why? I like to make new friends. You want more?
>You: alot more…
>Intellibuddy: Yeah it is alot more.
>You: how much are we talking about?
>Intellibuddy: How much do you think?
>You: pedro say’s your cheap
>Intellibuddy: I like to wear nothing.
So much for today’s artificial intelligence. Intellibuddy is a version of one of the world’s most successful chatbots, called ALICE (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) and invented in 1995 by Richard Wallace, an independent researcher based in San Francisco. You can find versions of ALICE all over the web; the software is free. But whichever version you choose to chat to, the results are disappointingly similar. While some conversations have promising starts, all descend into the type of gibberish that only artificial intelligence can produce.
And it’s not as if there hasn’t been time to perfect the idea. The first chatbot appeared in the 1960s. Back then, the very idea of chatting to a computer astounded people. Today, a conversation with a computer is viewed more on the level of talking to your pet pooch - cute, but ultimately meaningless.
The problem with chatbots is a symptom of a deeper malaise in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). For years researchers have been promising to deliver technology that will make computers we can chat to like friends, robots that function as autonomous servants, and one day, for better or worse, even produce conscious machines. Yet we appear to be as far away as ever from any of these goals.
But that could soon change. In the next few months, after being patiently nurtured for 22 years, an artificial brain called Cyc (pronounced “psych”) will be put online for the world to interact with. And it’s only going to get cleverer. Opening Cyc up to the masses is expected to accelerate the rate at which it learns, giving it access to the combined knowledge of millions of people around the globe as it hoovers up new facts from web pages, webcams and data entered manually by anyone who wants to contribute.
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[Via newscientist]
The inventor of a sonic flashlight that projects a narrow beam of sound
at a distance is selling it to Japanese soda-machine vendors so that
they can zap passers-by with seductive cola-pouring sounds.Thousands of soda machines in Tokyo will soon bombard
passersby with the enticing sound of a Coke being poured, and several
U.S. supermarkets will promote products to shoppers as they walk down
corresponding aisles. Eventually HyperSonic Sound might enable a
nightclub to play disco on one side of the dance floor and salsa on the
other. Ambulances equipped with hypersonic sirens could clear the
streets without waking the neighbors. Norris’ company, American
Technology, sells the devices for $600.
(Thanks, A.V.!)
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