Intriguing concept: iPet Companion: “iPet Companion employs cutting-edge technology, robotics and digital connectivity that allows you to play with your pets by controlling unique robotic toys located in your home with a few clicks of your mouse. A camera that captures all the fun lets you watch ...
“Rubber band AI”: “Rubber band AI refers to...
“Rubber band AI”: “Rubber band AI refers to an artificial intelligence found in titles such as racing or sports titles that is designed to prevent players from getting too far ahead of computer-controlled opponents. When done well, such AIs can maintain a consistent level of challenge from the be...
“What? They’re Only Mechanical Men!” says...
“What? They’re Only Mechanical Men!” says Spock, in this old Star Trek coloring book shown on io9 Why do I blog this? This kind of behavior with mechanical creature will definitely be more common, even if the robot won’t be humanoid (see this story of how Honda found nerd robot fan disappointed af...
"Quand tu regardes bien le travail d’artistes dans l’art, les illustrateurs ou la BD avec..."
“Quand tu regardes bien le travail d’artistes dans l’art, les illustrateurs ou la BD avec Moebius par exemple, il y a des visions du futur qui ont façonné le futur à force d’être des visions charmantes et attachantes. Même si le futur n’est pas ça et que les voitures ne volent pas dans le ciel, le ...
Two weird examples of photo manipulation that aims at converting...
Two weird examples of photo manipulation that aims at converting an “innocent” image into something erotic or pornographic in nature: (1) The now old “mormon porn” strategy, which consists in adding circular bubbles on an image in order to make people focus on certain aspects, (2) The pixellatio...
Weird: Disney Research in Zurich, Switzerland, just developed a...
Weird: Disney Research in Zurich, Switzerland, just developed a new process of robot making that enables a physical human face to be cloned onto a robot. The process is called “Physical Face Cloning,” and it involves the scanning of a human head. Once the human head is scanned, the coordinates an...
Read in Freud’s Civilization and its...
Read in Freud’s Civilization and its discontents “Now let us make the fantastic supposition that Rome were not a human dwelling-place, but a mental entity with just as long and varied a past history: that is, in which nothing once constructed had perished, and all the earlier stages of developmen...
“Asymmetric gaming” as described here: providing...
“Asymmetric gaming” as described here: providing players different control schemes and specialized objectives in the same game scenario. This is a departure from traditional console game mechanics. Most current games involve a discrete set of roles and strategies, and these are enabled and govern...
Found in Jay, Martin. 1993. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of...
Found in Jay, Martin. 1993. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth- Century French Thought. Berkeley: University of California Press: “If one had to summarize the contribution of the medieval and early modern struggle over the proper role of the visual in the preparation of the mod...
A great quote by Craig Stecyk, 1975: “two hundred years...
A great quote by Craig Stecyk, 1975: “two hundred years of american technology has unwittingly created a massive cement playground of unlimited potential. but it was the minds of 11 year olds that could see that potential.” ...