October 2008 Archives

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George Lois, the great art director behind some of Esquire's most iconic covers calls the October Cover of Esquire, that featured a blinking E-Ink display "A Mickey Mouse Light clicking on and off... it's not an idea." Gawker responds with "PWND!!1!" while Boing Boing Gadgets really hit the nail on the head after getting a first look with this line:

"The future of print journalism is the blink tag, apparently."

A Conversation with George Lois -- Advertising Age

A Gentle Critique Of Esquire -- Gawker

Esquire e-ink cover a pathetic disappointment -- Boing Boing Gadgets

Little Big Computer

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A 1,600 part Electromechanical Computer built inside the nifty physics-engine-tastic PS3 game, Little Big Planet. Simulacrum!

--via [Opposable Thumbs]



In all honesty, I'm not convinced this is "working" technology... more of a speculative design. Gaming is a great area to utilize technologies like computer vision and augmented reality while they languish in their early stages though. Bravo!

--via [Opposable Thumbs]

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