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This Headband Controls Your Smartphone With Your Brain

Google Glasses? Passe. Voice-controlled intelligent agents? So over. Controlling the tempo of “Call Me Maybe” with your heartbeat? Please. The future of wearable computing is all about using your noggin. That’s what the Muse headband promises to do. Currently seeking funding on Indiegogo (see the smartly produced and highly convincing Read More >

Google Takes Street View Tech Into the Grand Canyon

Google Maps has officially stepped into what may be its most difficult challenge yet — mapping the alleys, ledges and trails of the world unreachable by Street View’s cars, tricycles and snowmobiles. The effort formally began on foot Monday as Google took three of its Trekker backpacks down into the Read More >

Cool Sound and Water Experiment!

(CBS News) Watching this video is a bit like seeing a “glitch in the Matrix”. Is it impressive? Without a doubt. Is it science? You know it. Will you possibly start questioning reality? Watch and find out. This is really simple but has such an awesome effect. Fill a bucket Read More >

The Desperados Experience

This YouTube takeover experience for Desperados beer is pretty cool. It uses the YouTube controls to interact with the takeover experience. Got my attention, unfortunately their tequila flavored beer isn’t available in the US. One a side note… I think its crazy we have to verify our birth date to Read More >

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet

Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – fightforthefuture.org/pipa PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law Read More >

Earth | Time Lapse Fly Over from Space

http://vimeo.com/michaelkoenig/earth-timelapse-iss Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 on-board the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km. All credit goes to them. Shooting locations in order of appearance: Read More >

A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work

Technology codes our minds, changes our OS. Apple products have done this extensively. The video shows how magazines are now useless and impossible to understand, for digital natives. It shows real life clip of a 1-year old, growing among touch screens and print. And how the latter becomes irrelevant. Medium Read More >

Portraits of Loving Pets with Disabilities

While pet photographer Carli Davidson may be known for her awesome Shake series where she uses high speed photography to capture dogs in motion, she’s recently turned her attention to another project that deserves some much needed attention. Pets with Disabilities was an idea that started two years ago while Read More >