Terminator v0.1a The makers of the eerily lifelike robotic mule have a new creation: a machine that walks around like a real human being. Boston Dynamics is building the “Petman” prototype for the U.S. Army, to test out protective clothing. “Petman will balance itself and move freely; walking, crawling and doing a variety of suit-stressing [...]
10 User Interface Design Fundamentals It’s no great mystery that truly great user interfaces are the ones that are engineered to stay out of the way. ‘Staying out of the way’ means not distracting your users. Rather, good UIs let your users complete goals. The result? A reduction in training and support costs, and happier, [...]
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Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.” [...]
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Running the Numbers – An American Self-Portrait "Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that [...]
How to Turn Cheap “Choice” Steak into Gucci “Prime” Steak Recipe Steak Recipe: Massively salt your steaks 15 min – 1 hour before grilling. Notice that I didn’t say, “sprinkle liberally” or even “season generously.” I’m talking about literally coating your meat until you can’t see red. It should resemble a salt lick. Let that [...]
Shady Microsoft Plugin Pokes “Critical” Hole In Firefox Security "Microsoft has acknowledged that they slipped the .NET Framework Assistant plugin into Firefox via Windows Update this past February, and that it has poked a "critical" hole in the browser's security (effectively bringing Firefox down to IE's level). Microsoft has deemed the hole to be a [...]
OpenX Ad Server “Serve ads quickly. Make money easily” OpenX ad server provides you with the simple tools you need to make money from advertising, whether from direct ad sales, OpenX Market, or third party ad networks (like AdSense). OpenX Ad Server lets you organize and manage all of your ad inventory under one easy-to-use [...]
Puzzlus – puzzle-looking jigsaw puzzle by Art. Lebedev Puzzlus is a puzzle-looking jigsaw puzzle. The actual pieces do not, of course, match those drawn. (tags: puzzle jigsaw Art Lebedev ArtLebedev fun game image picture pics …)
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Geocities closes at the end of the month – another proof that Yahoo! doesn’t understand the web (business) Geocities closes at the end of the month – another proof that Yahoo! doesn't understand the web (business) (tags: Geocities yahoo web business marketing email hosting website webpage homepage history historical stupid …)
Photoshop Disaster: Ultra-thin Ralph Lauren model sparks outrage "In recent years an ongoing debate has brewed over advertisers and fashion magazines using photographs, particularly photographs of women, that have seemingly been altered, or "retouched," by airbrushing and photo editing software such as Photoshop. The latest such image to cause an uproar is one featured in [...]
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Top 6 Augmented Reality Apps Now that iPhone’s OS has been upgraded, expect an explosion of Augmented Reality applications to hit the iTunes store. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the best ones few to keep your eyes out for. (tags: augmented reality augmentedreality ar hiphapp iPhone phone smartphone iTunes app apps …)