An intriguing article in the WSJ recently addressed new practices related to 3D printers (By William Bulkeley). After briefly describing the process (shooting of plastic particles and glue, or an ultraviolet or laser, passing over a liquid resin bath, hardening a layer of plastic in a computer-gene...
Tips for doing business in SL
(Via), this new on-line magazine: SL Business, it's entirely devoted to how to run a business in Second Life. There are different examples of flourishing activities about clothing, doing music or photography... BUT IMO, what is strikingly curious (and more interesting to me?) is the magazine itsel...
World Robotics 2006
IFR Stat is going to release their world robotics report 2006. It usually gives an overall picture of the robot world (forecasts, analysis of robot densities, studies on the profitability of industrial robots, service robots). It's mostly about industrial robots (handling, welding, assembly, dispen...
Pens, paper and Disney
An article in news.com about Disney designers highlight the fact that "Designers and animators should learn more about the real world before sitting down to create a fake one". "Instead of uniting with words, we unite with the objects we're seeing," Rohde said of both kinds of virtual world creator...
Kids "cyber literacy"
The BBC on kids "cyber literacy" Computer literacy is increasingly seen as an essential skill for children. But what is the best age to introduce them to computers and does it give them a head-start? (...) Worldwide research on very young children and their use of IT is limited, but one recent repo...
A table singing "hap hep hip hop"
Spanish designer Guillermo Lorenzo created this interactive installation: Interactive audio-visual intalation. where the players can modify sound by placing pucks on virtual tracks on two tables. One of the tables is singing "hap hep hip hop" while the other serves as a mixing table. The visitors m...
SNAGU
SNAGU, a project by ITP students (NYU): snagu is a camera-phone based scavenger hunt with no limits on time, space, or answers. it was created by four students from nyu's itp, pollie barden, cory forsyth, jaki levy, and oren ross, and won the cisco/ mtvu digital incubator grant. it is currently bei...
Interview of Regine Debatty
Gosh, a WMMNA banner on this blog??? It's actually to introduce a short interview I've done of Regine Debatty, the instigratrice (sorry for the french-icism) of the We Make Money Not Art blog. Not to mention it's part of my daily read, I want to stress here that the goal of this interview was to s...
"Direct Economy"
Just had a quick meeting with Xavier Comtesse. It was basically about his next book about what he calls the "Direct Economy" What he means by that is the new ecosystem we have with minipreneurs, consumactors/consommacteurs, crowdsourcing and so forth. Xavier also described it in a short article (in...
World of Warcraft Fitness Program
WoW-addicted Mirweis sent me this WoW Fitness Program!: Let's face it, if you're the typical WoW addict, you don't spend much time outside or away from your computer desk. (...) For each exercise below, I've given a basic starting point for how many times you should do each exercise. Remember, you ...