the San Francisco treat. toot toot.
facinating IO brush that samples objects and allows one to “paint” with it… A disembodied hand jabs at various things by surprise (ok not really) including CHILDREN and ANIMALS! (yes!) all of this is set to the wonderful score by Fantastic Plastic Machine! get to haptic brushin yall /dance
Apparently Japanese are awesome at this too- i sing the gaddam song on the bart all day… thanks to bj for sending me all 200megs of this… too bad somone just posted it on teh YOOT.
holy crap that has to be the spazziest automaton i’ve ever seen… the lil dynamo jumps around then POSES savagely as only a japanese robot can do. put me down for 2 please. btw who loves that schnazzy 90’s jungle-ey synth it poses to!? /raises hand (can we call that robo pron?)
i know its long but that michael jackson clip is spooky. overall an amazing concept- basically an audio scrambler that uses your voice or any other sound input - then matches it up to MC HAMMER! (or whoever) then re configures it using the “closest sample”… the raddest sampler of all time- where else are you gonna see C&C music factory mashed with kurt cobain!!! plus the creator is euro creepy. SCORE! his site is here.
Rejoice! One day, there may be more pleasure to be had from guns beyond the thrill of shooting men in Reno just to watch them die.
What could possibly be better than that, you ask? Well, maybe nothing, but if anyone is tinkering with the idea, I’m guessing it’d be the pioneers of the fledgling discipline, hedonomics. Hedonomicists aim to go beyond the goals of ergonomics for creating safe and functional interfaces, and strive to create ones that are actually pleasurable to the user. Here’s a blog linked to some other interesting articles on the subject.
Cool idea, but if my tech interfaces had designs that actually reinforced their own use, would it be liberation from a fate of carpal tunnel and snarky afternoon comments, or some new form of masturbatory office crack? Would I be distracted from the normal pleasure I otherwise would have gotten from that night of morbidly deranged curiosity in Reno? The questions ensue . . . *cue Twilight Zone theme*
Pretty much the only benefit I ever expect to get from DRM will be whatever amusement I derive from making fun of it with its own acronym. Anyway - a pretty funny article from ZDNet with the editor’s take on what I’m sure is one of everyone’s favorite cancers on today’s tech landscape.
A graduate thesis for interactivity and games… its like that cellphone game “snake” on crack inside a microscopic world of bluey wonder…
This shoulda been a transformer- or at the very least, a gobot. its a Guinea-ROBO-pig b!tches! it does wonderously guinea pig-esque things like. sit. and be fuzzy. and sit. and walk. oh but wait! it reacts to stuff like loud noises and affection (guinea pig make out sessions?) and you totally can NOT immerse it in water and marvel at its fuzzy hot dog like dimensions. (try it with real ones! they look like mini demoralized dachunds.)
-AH, this reminds me of the time a roomate had a chinchilla we (the other roomies) so affectionately named “Fecal tornado.” He had attained this lil rodent for the woman impression factor but neglected the F*k outa it most of the time. The dearth of human contact induced the lil fuzzy bastard to bolt about the cage at such high velocities that the (mostly uncleaned) cage would have a satellite ring of flung doodie encircling it… One day a friend (innocently may i add) brought over a guinea pig and they decided it would be nice for them to “play.” Now for those who think Chinchillas are just fuzzy lil funbags, you all are completely unawares of the fact that they’re territorial vicious lil twats. apparently species-ist too- for when the lil friend from guinea dropped by in the cage, the chinchilla emited a blood curdling warwhoop then proceeded to pummel said pig with high powered chinchilla Karate kicks (no sh!t)… The guinea pig then started wailing like i’ve never heard lil rodents wail- much akin to a collicky baby. disturbing to say the least.
A military mule bot. its supposed to carry upto 120 lbs. but who cares… YOU CAN KICK IT! it looks so dainty as it prances about on all fours, even at a stand still. It’s no Qrio but all would be forgiven if you could just ride atop of this thing…. oh did i mention you could KICK IT ? wanna read more on it. HERE
