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Happy Birthday Robert Moog! Google Japan celebrates the musical pioneer’s 78th Birthday
This cardboard camera really works! It can shoot 40 photos and comes with a USB cord. Ikea gave it away at a design expo in Milan, but there’s a chance they’ll be selling these in stores.
Ikea’s Cardboard Digital Cameras
via Laughing Squid
(Source: photojojo)
NYC Open Data Policy Hack Day Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 11:00 AM (ET) REGISTER HERE
NYC recently enacted Local Law 11 of 2012, which mandates citywide open data in machine-readable formats through a centralized, publicly accessible web site. The NYC Open Data portal was launched in…
Facebook’s newest frontier: inside the car
Mercedes announces the inclusion of slimmed down versions of Facebook, Yelp and Google to help find venues and friends while you travel.
Marcel the Shell + Wall-e = Boxie the robot journalist from MIT’s Media Lab
Photography’s renaissance rests on a few unbeatable advantages. Compared to other kinds of content—songs and movies—photos are, technically and legally, much easier to share and mash up. If you come up with a great, unexpected new site centered on TV shows, you need to get huge servers and pay for expensive bandwidth and licensing deals. If you’ve got a fantastic new take on photos, often all you need is an app. That app lives on a smartphone, which is the world’s most popular point-and-shoot camera. For the first time, cameras are connected to the Internet, they know who your friends are, they know where you are, and they can be constantly updated with new powers. The camera is powerful (Apple’s iPhone 4S is 8 megapixels) and intelligent, and the pictures keep getting more interesting.
Why photography is every tech product’s most valuable feature.
Twine is approaching $500,000 in funding on Kickstarter. “A wireless square with sensors and a simple web app to set rules, Twine tells you what your things are doing by email, text or Twitter.” We can’t wait to start playing with them.
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