tech & toys Archive
tech toys
Digital Rights Management is a technology that restricts the life span of digital downloads (music, software, e-books). It’s why the mp3 or eBook you bought will only be
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Art
This goes down as one of the coolest examples of food art for all time. Brooklyn-based artist Jonathan Dagan aka j.viewz used a MakeyMakey open-source circuit board to conduct electricity
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tech toys
I haven’t backed a Kickstarter project in a while, so I hope this isn’t me opening the floodgates to all manner of folks who want free advertising, but
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Design
My friends over at MAQET recently released their first licensed 3D-printed DIY figure: Emily the Strange! The project has been underway for many months, and head MAQETeer,
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tech toys
If you were wearing an animated gif T-shirt, you’d feel so alive! (You’d just have to watch out for strangers who noticed your new-found ‘huggability’.) Sean Montgomery of Produce Consume Robot is responsible for
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tech toys
ParaNorman is an upcoming 3D stop-motion animated adventure film produced by Portland-based Coraline creators LAIKA, and set to open in theaters tomorrow, Friday, August 17th. Notably, ParaNorman is the first stop-motion
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popjects
Toronto-based “photo-object” artist Alan Belcher’s latest work turns Apple’s JPEG icon into an edition of ceramic tiles. Belcher writes: The ephemeral nature of the universal jpeg has been addressed, and the default
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tech toys
3D printing is getting closer to being a reality for amateurs and in-home use. The MakerBot folks were on hand at Comic-Con to demonstrate their newest machine, The
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prints
Brendan Monroe, a fine artist based in Oakland, has collaborated with Kinektron, an upstart “functional” music project, on an experimental audio-visual endeavor. Monroe designed six posters, each of which
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Cats
Remember the Cornify plugin that let you take over any website with heaps of unicorns? Here’s Meowbify, which replaces a website’s pictures with photos of CATS. Ha HA!
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