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KORG KAOSSILATOR 2 Dynamic Phrase Synthesizer

Handheld synth instrument that will make you look like you are texting:

Introducing the KAOSSILATOR 2; the palm-size phrase synthesizer that can be played by anyone, at any place, and at any time.

Boasting a powered-up sound generator, KAOSSILATOR 2 delivers synth and drum sounds spanning a wide range of genres, plus dramatically expanded loop recording. KAOSSILATOR 2 is packed with capabilities that can be enjoyed alone on or together with other people. Use two loops to create DJ-like mixes. Use the internal mic to record guitar, vocal, or other audio source – just as with a looper effect.

More information here

kayfabe:

Check out the tumblr of Megan Ganz, a writer on Community who likes to doodle during script meetings.

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The cross bow in the foreground provides a first person shooter point of view. Inspired by the idea of a FPS that leverages the Renaissance for the aesthetics and storyline.

Luca Signorelli, Martirio di San Sebastiano (detail), 1498

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This original general purpose vehicle (aka JEEP) is a wonderful example of Human Machine Interaction.  I have a 2004 version that still has many of the characteristics.

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I am inspired by this dashboard diagram from the mid 20th century. 

"A wonderful little story about five-year-old Albert Einstein, who was very slow to speak and whose parents feared he was none too bright, shows us how neophilia works and what it’s for. One day, when he was sick in bed, the boy was given the compass to fiddle with to keep him occupied. The new plaything made him wonder about magnetic fields, which got him interested in physics, and, well, you know the rest. Few of us are Einsteins, but all of us have the same capacity to be curious about something new that sparks the learning and sustained interest that lead to achievements great and small."

- New – a cultural history and future of neophilia, our compulsive need for novelty and change. (via curiositycounts)

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nano machines

Source; Nano-Engineer

universe-of-waves:

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Design Inspiration From 1927

Karel Teige on commercial design:

  1. Freedom from tradition and prejudice. Eliminating decorativism.
  2. Using clearly legible, geometrically simple typefaces.
  3. Fulfilling the particular demands of each job.
  4. Balancing of space and clear, geometrically organized layout.
  5. Exploiting new technologies to create ‘typofoto’
  6. Close collaboration of the designer and printer

This should still be heded.  I would only edit no. 6 to read:

Close collaboration of the designer and the developer.

vazetti:

GRONK! FLASH! ZAP!

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prostheticknowledge:

BVH Pose Editor

Interesting proof-of-concept tool of new web technologies which can run motion files of 3D objects.

From akjava [Google Translated]:

BVH motion players, BVH (motion files) as well as the Viewer to view, open source Web application is to play in many ways. (Three.js + GWT on Github ) Using WebGL, work in Chrome browser.

Applications include use from BVH motion to find a lot of files.
From motion, and find a frame for the extract.

You can play around with this tool here

mudwerks:

(via SOPA, Meet The Player Piano Copyright Threat - Forbes)

…Consider the player piano. When it arrived on the scene in the late 19th century, music publishers were horrified by this new machine that allowed anybody to recreate the performance of a great pianist inside their own home without paying a dime in royalties. By 1906 there were 75,000 player pianos clinking out copyright violations all across this country, using millions of perforated paper rolls that contained, in many cases, note-for-note transcriptions of famous performances.

The music publishers sued and in 1908 the U.S. Supreme Court decided, in White-Smith Publishing v. Apollo, that the player-piano roll was a mere mechanical device, not an unauthorized copy of sheet music. Put a player piano inside a saloon or a performance hall and you’d be liable for performance royalties, the court decided. But inside the home it was just another type of music box. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a prescient side note, said Congress needed to update the laws, because “on principle anything that mechanically reproduces that collocation of sounds ought to be held a copy.” An indeed, the next year Congress passed a special tax of 2 cents per player-piano roll to help defray the enormous cost to content providers of unauthorized performances in the home. As of 1996 the rate had risen to 6.95 cents…

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Hacked Commodore 64 Turned Into USB Keyboard

Now works with an iPad.

From biosrhythm:

Just a follow up to the C64 USB keyboard Arduino project that I made last week. I was curious if it would work on the iPad using the iPad Camera Connection kit. So I tried it out and was greeted with the error “Cannot Use Device” and “The connected USB device is not supported.” I dismissed the window and tried anyway and it worked! I was able to type in any application.

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1957 - atomic cake saver by x-ray delta one on Flickr.

Honeywell H632 computer system, 1968 (via Colorcubic)

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