TV Will Destory Your Mind (if it hasn’t done so already)

09 April 2008

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$TV Will Destory Your Mind (if it hasn\'t done so already)$

It’s once again Web Wednesday in Hong Kong tonight. This week’s special guest is from television — no she’s not famous. She’s Ivy Wong, COO for TVB.com (one of Hong Kong’s local broadcasters — Warning: the site’s not English-language friendly).
However, since the Web Wednesday gathering is really about the schmoozing, …

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Video Projecting Artists Will Entertain The Night’s Streets

19 February 2008

Jay Oatway

Duelling Realities | Rise of The Creative Class | Video Replaces Writing

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$Video Projecting Artists Will Entertain The Night\'s Streets$

A man rides up on his bike and projects a video onto a wall beside you. What do you do? Do you watch, ask for popcorn, or flee to safety? If the man on the bike is Fernando Llanos, you’ll want to stick around — even if you can’t stand the artsy-fartsy mumbo-jumbo that describes his work [via Madrid Abierto]:

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Holograms Will Replace Air Travel

27 January 2008

Jay Oatway

Climate Burn | Duelling Realities | Jump the Shark | No Strings | Video Replaces Writing

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There seems to be a lot of excitement about Prince Charles saving about 15 tons of carbon dioxide by not attending The World Future Energy Summit 2008. In his place, he sent a hologram.

Of course, it wasn’t actually a hologram — not like the, "help me Obi-Wan Kenobi…" transmission you might imagine.
The hologram is based on a 19th century trick, called …

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Innovate or GTFO

10 January 2008

Jay Oatway

Culture Wars | Rise of The Creative Class | Video Replaces Writing

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Here’s a quick lesson on the evolution of animation [via BoingBoing TV] — and a much hard lesson to grasp from a true innovator on just what it means to think outside the box:

Today on Boing Boing tv — more subversive animated genius from David O’Reilly, a 22-year-old experimental filmmaker from Ireland whose style lies somewhere between Kubrick and …
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The Popular Future

Giant 3D Laser TV Will Make Your New HDTV Obsolete

Are you feeling mighty chuffed about the new HDTV you got for Xmas? Sorry, but it’s already well on its way to the junk pile of obsolete technology — if the hype from this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is to be …

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Lover Pods Include Built-in Champagne Holders and Flat-Panel Video

The sleep pods of the future will take romance to a new level. Consider the red velour, the bottle of bubbling chilling, maybe even a virtual fireplace crackling on the 32-inch LCD — who wouldn’t be ready for love.

[via Gizmodo]
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Your Cyborg Destiny Awaits

The guys over at Popular Science have taken an exoskeleton for a test drive:
While audiences flood theaters this month to see the comic-book-inspired Iron Man, a real-life mad genius toils in a secret mountain lab to make the mechanical superhuman more than just a …

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Earth Day 2008: Five Easy Steps To Save The World

In celebration of Earth Day 2008 (W00t! We survived another year!), here is the Portension guide for green living this year:
Step 1) Do Whatever Al Gore Tells You…

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News From The Future

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Mobile maps taken to the next level. Build your own excursion to happening places, clubs, bars, food, culture, art, welness and other thrills. Leave Lonely Planet in the bin.
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What they saw has never been explained. And they were so worried about losing their jobs that they demanded their names be kept off the official reports.
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Thanks to the nice people at Slideshare, you can now get my 5-minute introduction to giant monster appreciation, which I performed live at the Ignite show in San Francisco a couple weeks ago.
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In fact, the article offers a total of 10 unusual uses for the popular beverage, from flower preservation and insect repellent to toothache reliever and jellyfish-sting soother.
Meet the Spacecraft That Could Save NASA a Fortune | Wired Science from Wired.com 14 May 08
Reusable spacecraft architecture is a bit of a novelty for NASA, which has traditionally built spacecraft from the ground up for each new mission -- at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. No lo. […]
Megaquake set to strike within a decade | New Scientist Environment 2 May 08
Sometime in the next 10 years we can expect an earthquake of a similar magnitude to the 2004 Sumatra quake that triggered the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami.