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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 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"The future of print journalism is the tag, apparently."
A Conversation with George Lois -- Advertising Age
A Gentle Critique Of Esquire -- Gawker
Overdrive, the company serving up e-books for New York's public libraries drives across the country in a big Semi, uses a variety of DRM, primarily Windows Media. In Central Park on Sunday, a rep. told me "they are working on getting Windows Media DRM working on Macs." (wtf?)
Continue reading Digital DRM-mobile and Open Source Digital Rights.
TELESURGERY!
Mark Fiala's ARTag SDK, a set of libraries created for Augmented Reality applications. Double-helping of brilliant, with a side of silly. Take that, Bruce Sterling!
Bruce Sterling on Ubiquitous Computing.
Perhaps this lecture by Bruce Sterling goes beyond the attention span of a savvy web-surfer like yourself, but it is a really wonderful approach to the coming wave of ubiquity in computing. It might take you a few sittings, but its challenging and enjoyable to have playing in a secondary Firefox tab while you're blogging. As I am right now.
-Hack.
Contour Reality Capture system [Mova] rendered in the Unreal 3 Engine. -via [joystiq]
Brejla, from the Czech Republic on Youtube throws down computer animation and music videos.
