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The Structure Sensor is the first 3D sensor for mobile devices

The Structure Sensor is the first 3D sensor for mobile devices
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Artist Manipulates 48 Pools Of Water With Her Mind by Beckett Mufson “Brain power” takes on a literal meaning when it comes to EEG painting, mind-responsive furniture, and the workof Lisa Park. Park combines EEG scanning with speakers and pools of water to visualize her thoughts andemotions. Last year, she exposed her brain patterns to the world with Eunoia, in which she placed five water-filled metal plates atop speakers designed to respond to her real-time brain data. In that project, Park sorted the data into five emotions—sadness, anger, desire, happiness, and hatred, one per plate. Eunoia II is outfitted with 48 vibration pools, inspired by the 48 emotions philosopher Baruch Spinoza outlined in his book, Ethica, like frustration, excitement, engagement, and meditation. “I started working with biosensors especially EEG headset, because I questioned “how can I take this invisibleenergy and emotions and make it visible?” Images taken from Lisa Park’s Eunoia II Are you on “Tsu” yet? Credit: Mindbodysoulspirit.com

Segmentation There are many metrics that measure engagement but page views are not one of them. Make your product better by measuring actions, instead of page views. Mixpanel gives you the ability to easily measure what people are doing in your app on iOS, Android, and web. See how it works Answer your hardest questions without writing SQL Working with data often means writing SQL queries, which is great for engineers or data scientists but hard or impossible for everyone else. “An overlooked value of @mixpanel is that the non-technical folks can answer their own questions about your data.” Eric Normand Point and click analytics for mobile Understanding what your users are doing doesn’t have to be a complicated setup process. Features Drill into your data with segmentation so you can find out where to focus your energy when building your product. Visualize your data in different ways. Bookmarks let you save reports you look at a lot so you can save time. Getting started takes less than 10 minutes

E-Traces: Ballet Slippers That Make Drawings From The Dancer’s Movements If you’re like me, then you may have been accused of dispensing some questionable moves in the vicinity of the dance floor. I’ve always maintained that my critics simply couldn’t grasp the subtlety of my particular style of physical expression, and now I just may have a means of illustrating my point with an ingenious piece of wearable electronics by designer Lesia Trubat González called E-Traces. The concept of Electronic Traces is based on capturing dance movements and transforming them into visual sensations through the use of new technologies. To do this we focused on the ballet shoes themselves, which through the contact with the ground, and thanks to Lilypad Arduino technology, record the pressure and movement of the dancer’s feet and send a signal to an electronic device. As you can see in the video, E-Traces is a new way of creating stunningly elegant marks, which are almost reminiscent of calligraphy. [via Prosthetic Knowledge]

Party with a Local NASA Posts a Huge Library of Space Sounds, And You're Free To Use Them Space is the place. Again. And SoundCloud is now a place you can find sounds from the US government space agency, NASA. In addition to the requisite vocal clips (“Houston, we’ve had a problem” and “The Eagle has landed”), you get a lot more. There are rocket sounds, the chirps of satellites and equipment, lightning on Jupiter, interstellar plasma and radio emissions. Many of these sounds were available before; I’ve actually used a number of them in my own music. Another thing: you’re free to use all of these sounds as you wish, because NASA’s own audio isn’t copyrighted. Let the space remixing begin. European Space Agency, your move. Update: ESA has started posting downloadable sounds on SoundCloud! Have you made music with space sounds? More Sounds Want more? It’s slower to browse, but there’s an even bigger library on Archive.org. NASA Audio Collection It gets weird. The University of Iowa has a selection of space sounds:Space Audio Comments 1. 2.

Voting via SMS, Internet, Twitter | Sendsteps | SMS stemmen Visualizing Our Tech Worship With Giant Webs of Circuitry Technological mandala 20 - Resonator, 2014. Leonardo Ulian <div class="slide" data-slide-id="1579293" ><img title="" alt="" width="650px" src=" data-image-width="1200" data-image-height="900" /><p class="caption">Technological mandala 20 - Resonator, 2014. For Italian artist Leonardo Ulian, this is our universe.

3D Printing Service for Digital Artists and Designers | PrintaBit Dances With Google Glass | Carla Escoda In June 2013, Google launched a competition on Twitter soliciting bids from people interested in beta-testing its latest foray into wearable high tech. Since 'beta-tester' conjures up visions of bearded geeks in hoodies glued to their Retina displays, some marketing genius at Google coined the term 'Google Glass Explorers' and put a snapshot of a dusky model with pouty lips, a tousled mane, and a sleek band of titanium on her forehead, on the home page of Glass. (Photo: Reuters) The world was invited to pitch its ideas to Google, appended to the hashtag #IfIHadGlass. A year later, several thousand Google Glass Explorers find themselves roaming the earth, muttering "OK, Glass" and tapping their temples vigorously. Geeks in hoodies still dominate the Glassian landscape -- as far as one can tell from the chatter on the online Explorers forum. Does it matter whether the masses think Glass looks dorky?

Bierstadt Drones Drones programmed for light painting in the sky | FlowingData What do you get when you put LEDs on a system of drones and then program them to fly in formation? Spaxels from the Ars Electronic Futurelab. Spaxels are quadcopters equipped with a programmable LED system. They comprise a swarm that’s able to fly in formation and “draw” dynamic three-dimensional figures in the night sky. The Ars Electronica Futurelab is the sole player in this field, the only one capable of working with aesthetic forms of expression that were previously possible only on a computer and, via spaxels, translating them into the real world of a three-dimensional airspace. See the system in action in the video below. [via Creative Applications]

Art, Science and the Sublime: 3 questions with Anna Dumitriu » IAI TV Is the Romantic idea of the sublime still relevant? Yes, says Anna Dumitriu, and not just for art, but for science too. Anna Dumitriu is a Brighton-based contemporary artist best known for her work in bio-art. Her practice encompasses installations, interventions and performances, often incorporating diverse materials such as bacteria, robotics, digital projections and embroidery, Dumitriu seeks to blur the boundaries between the arts and the sciences. Dumitriu is founder and Director of the Institute of Unnecessary Research and lead artist on the "Trust me, I'm an artist: towards an ethics of art/science collaboration" project working with the Waag Society in Amsterdam. She has written extensively on the notion of the "bacterial sublime".Is science our new key to the sublime? Nature has always been one of the most powerful ways of accessing the sublime. Science is a means of study the natural world, in all its forms, and for making predictions about it.

Idiots: an animated film with robots on planned obsolescence and dependence on mobile - Geeks and Com ' Sur le site on n’arrête pas de parler de l’actualité des nouvelles technologies avec le dernier produit ou le dernier service. Et c’est vrai qu’aujourd’hui, le cycle de renouvellement des produits s’est accéléré parfois en raison des nouveaux besoins que l’on se crée mais aussi parfois en raison de la durée de vie des produits plus courte qu’auparavant. Le film d’animation iDiots joue sur cette double thématique de la dépendance au téléphone et de l’obsolescence programmée en mettant en scène des robots qui achètent massivement un nouveau téléphone. À noter que les robots présents dans la vidéo sont de vrais modèles japonais vendus en kit. Au fond nous sommes tous un peu des iDiots à certains moments de notre vie et sur certains sujets avec des choses que nous ne contrôlons pas toujours même si on le pense!

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