Simone Jones, Dean of Faculty of Art at the Ontario College of Art & Design, mentioned her colleague Julian Oliver‘s neat creation during an interview we did for DiscoveryChannel.ca. I love the idea. It plays into ideas of Augmented Architecture and Augmented Reality – concepts that deal with altering your reality, rather than providing you […]
Yesterday I chanced on an amazing show on Discovery called Next World: Future Life on Earth (think Beyond 2000, from a beyond-2000 perspective) and caught a segment about Transported Presence. The idea is that our video and audio projections will be so high in quality, we wouldn’t physically need to travel anywhere; the mere projection […]
Looks like this bad boy will be out of comission until April 2009 at least – methinks likely more… To help pass the time, watch this: I never thought cicades would feel so personal.
At least as it relates to our planet’s size…Enjoy! How – Watch more amazing videos here
Seems things have gotten off to a rough start at CERN headquarters. In the lead-up to so-called God-particle maker, several things have gone awry; most recently, it was hijacked by hackers (see below) and now overheated magnets have delayed the groundbreaking experiments for at least two months. The culprit: “Electrical interconnection between two magnets,” according […]
Advancements in robotics are taking us ever-closer to what roboticist Masahiro Mori termed the “Uncanny Valley” in 1970; the idea’s that you don’t want your robot to be an unconvincing, awkward imitation-human, but you don’t want it to be too convincing either. The theory states that the more a robot becomes humanlike in its appearance […]
The latest rendition of the Disco Boom De Ah Dah vid is striking a chord locally…DiscoveryChannel.ca was first flooded with requests to put the vid up, and now it’s flooded with people looking to download it… I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an enthusiastic response to a promo…One of the viewsers mentions (and I […]
Feeling edgy that CERN’s Large Hadron Collider might swallow your precious world whole? The good news is your fear’s likely unfounded. The bad news? The operative word here is likely. Oh, and that less than an hour into the £4.4bn-project, hackers exposed its security vulnerabilities. The group – calling themselves “GST: Greek SecurityTeam” – broke […]
