23 March 2012
Origanimation ~ Stop Motion Foldeliciousness!
Thanks to The Kid Should See This for spotting this lovely origami stop motion animation... And there's more origami and designs there from Sipho Mabona with animation by Stoptrick Hamburg... Plus some behind the scenes of a promo commercial... Finally, here's interview with origami artist Mabona...
LAUNCH ~ MIT $100K Ventures Contest DUE!
MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition DUE @ 6pm today Friday 23 March 2012. MIT IDEAS DUE later tonight @ 11:59pm;-)
FRAMED ~ Japanese Digital Art Screen & Market
Current MIT Imaging Ventures students Shambhavi Kadam and Kimberly Gordon share this Japanese Digital Art Screen and Marketplace called FRAMED. Very nice! Thanks to JapanTrends piece by Michael Keferl for spotting.
22 March 2012
Kiva Shiftbots ~ Warehouse Automation Solutions!
Check out MIT alumco Kiva Systems and their warehouse automatons -- i.e. shiftbots -- helping make e-commerce efficient! Bought by Amazon this week for ~$750M...
21 March 2012
Agrobotic Greenhouse ~ NL Farm Automation
Thanks to Inside Urban Green for spotlighting A Dutch Greenhouse Demonstrates the Future of Work...
"It is not widely understood how robotics and computer technology are changing the shape of the working world. This visit to an automated Dutch greenhouse might be a bit spooky for some but technology like this is a reality of modern life and will only increase in the future"This is promo video for Hortimax...
CORNAR ~ MIT's Raskar et al See Around Corner
MIT colleagues Ramesh Raskar, Andreas Velten and team reveal CORNAR to help us see around corners... Nice Nature video description...
20 March 2012
19 March 2012
Scientific Beauty ~ Feynman Explores World!
UD spots Richard Feynman on beauty of scientific exploration as videolyzed by Reid Gower...
18 March 2012
Inventing Futures ~ Diamandis @ Singularity U
MIT alum, X-Prize founder, and Abundance author Peter Diamandis at Singularity University 2010 on The Best Way to Predict the Future...
Prometheus ~ Ridley Scott on Mankind's Origins
See Ridley Scott's latest Prometheus trailer... Plus here's TED 2023 with promethean character Peter Weyland...
17 March 2012
Spot Pricing ~ SF's Dynamic Parking Meters...
Michael Cooper and Jo Craven McGinty write in the NYTimes of A Meter So Expensive, It Creates Parking Spots... "San Francisco is trying to shorten the hunt with an ambitious experiment that aims to make sure that there is always at least one empty parking spot available on every block that has meters. The program, which uses new technology and the law of supply and demand, raises the price of parking on the city’s most crowded blocks and lowers it on its emptiest blocks."Nice! Here's the initial coverage...
Big Biters ~ NYTimes on Crocodilian Chomps;-)
James Gorman writes in the NYTimes that Broad or Dainty, Crocodilian Snouts Pack Same Chomp... "...it seems that snout shape, teeth and size evolved along separate paths. And the only factor that affects bite strength is the size of the animal. “That was a huge surprise,” [lead researcher Florida State University professor of biomechanics Greg] Erickson said."Hearken to the data...
R.I.P. Ralph McQuarrie ~ Epic Conceptual Artist...
Sad that great conceptual SF artist and designer Ralph McQuarrie passed away. He designed many central elements of late 20th century epic cinema, including just from the Star Wars saga alone characters such as Darth Vader, R2-D2, and C-3PO... 
Township Cinderellas ~ AlJaz on SAfrica's Youth
Al Jazeera's Witness spotlights South Africa's challenges in Township Cinderellas, a documentary film by Paul and Sam Sapin...
"...about teenagers from the Cape Flats area of Cape Town in South Africa preparing for their high school graduation ball on the biggest night of their lives. Most of these students were born in 1994, the year Nelson Mandela became president, apartheid ended and South Africa became a democracy. This means that the high school graduating classes of 2011/2012 are the first generation of apartheid-free South Africans. These are 'Mandela’s Children', and they were promised a bright future. But 17 years on from the birth of democracy in South Africa, the outlook for many is far from bright. In the town of Manenberg where we made this film, only a quarter of the children who began school together at Manenberg High School made it to their last year of school and only about 50 per cent of those passed the exams required to graduate."
Star Gazing ~ Rivest's Timelapse From NASA ISS
Bad Astronomy spots Alex Rivest's edit of NASA footage showing Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station...
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