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December 20 to 31, 2005
The iPod photo is helping radiologists manage their medical
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s. And with iSight, stock Apple technology is enabling teleradiology on the cheap and may one day enable telemedicine from home...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Here's a comprehensive technical overview of Tiger, and why its software architecture for recording, composing, and playing
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s, movies, music and generally any kind of media is light years ahea...
Why is the FBI plastering notices all over CDs, to the dismay of artists and consumers alike? http://
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The Manual Input Sessions explore the connections between
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analysis, shadow puppets, and music generation...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A immediate flurry of inventive activity was sparked by the release of the Google Maps satellite
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ry feature last week. People started making "memory maps" at Flickr...
The work of graphic spin-doctor Glenn Feron. In case you thought those media
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s reflected reality...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Gory
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s of this year's Canadian seal hunt...
Sin City is the first true movie/graphic novel hybrid. Here's a comic-to-screen comparison: http://www.filmrot.com/
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March 21 to 27, 2005
This was a top item in news all over the world this week: Banksy, an artist mostly known for his quality graffiti work, snuck into New York's most famous museums and affixed his anti-war work to th...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Some artists are slicing up billboards, recombining them into new
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March 7 to 13, 2005
Every U.S. soldier in Iraq gets one of these handy guides to Iraqi culture. I think every American should, too: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/
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Book Art http://www.ibooknet.co.uk/news_
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February 28 to March 6, 2005
Ira Rennert's house was featured on VH1 this week. It's the largest in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its own power plant. He owned the compan...
Fliker, an interesting
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browsing interface...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Photographer Chris Jordan's "Portraits of American Mass Consumption": http://www.chrisjordanphoto.com/
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How to build a beautiful 136 foot-high ice wall. A picture: http://www.alaskaalpineclub.org/
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February 14 to 20, 2005
The Grafik Dynamo assembles random words and
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s from the Web into strangely compelling and surreal comic strips...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Also, Google's
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index now offers over 1 billion pictures...
A new digital animation technique - making people dance in a robotic pop-lock style. Here's an amazing remix of Gene Kelly in "Singing In The Rain"...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Here are the best
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s from recent sunspot activity, from January 15 to 21...
January 17 to 23, 2005
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s of dense Hong Kong living - reminds me of the Matrix...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Are you a Mac-hating bigot? http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/
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The makers of the popular Stuffit compression application have found a way to compress JPEG
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files by up to 30%...
The public domain USGS digital data
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archives. Nice, quick stock
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ry for all kinds of uses...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The Mantis, a portable electric bike with an 18-mile range: http://www.ebikecentral.co.uk/
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Vintage turn-of-the-century postcard
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s of Tokyo...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Grisly
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s of caring for the wounded in Iraq...
A New York art exhibition is stopped after showing a Bush portrait made of
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s of monkeys...
A slice of life - 48 favorite (digital) photos: http://sensitivelight.com/favourites/?
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December 6 to 12, 2004
I really like the design sense of the architects behind it, but am continually frustrated by the design of architects' Web sites. Architects typically have the least usable sites on the Internet ...
In 2006 more
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s will be printed from digital film than from traditional camera film...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
I've added a couple of experimental features to the blog which I'm still refining - one is a "Topics" link which analyzes all the words I've written. The larger the word, the more common it is. Also...
"Israel shocked by
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of soldiers forcing violinist to play at roadblock...
A new consumer surveillance tool allows people to view satellite
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s of the ground at a resolution of two feet...
November 22 to 28, 2004
A ten-year-old toasted cheese sandwich said to bear the
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of Virgin Mary sold for $28,000 on eBay...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Spin" - then: This movie made of 100% unauthorized satellite TV footage is a fascinating look into how global communications technology was used by the
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makers in the 1992 presidential election...
HP's prototype biodegradable printer: http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/2002091465/www.wired.com/news/
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It would be nice to see evoting receipts that looked like this: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/
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November 1 to 7, 2004
An
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of Bush labelled "asshole" on CNN thanks to an intern...
A time-lapse
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of a lunar eclipse...
October 18 to 24, 2004
Like Woody Guthrie, here's the ugly story of the exploitation of Rosa Park's
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and legacy...
A little animation of a drawing in progress: http://
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October 11 to 17, 2004
A design analysis of Kerry and Bush's campaign logos. I agree, the Kerry design looks wimpy and old school: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/
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October 4 to 10, 2004
What were the candidates scribbling on during the Presidential debates? Here's Bush's notepad: http://cakonos.
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September 5 to 12, 2004
Topical picture of the week: http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/
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Lee Bontecou is one of my favorite artists - she pioneered works that addressed the connections between technology and nature, before H.R. Giger's time. Once the talk of the art world, she dropped ou...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Bruce Sterling gives another great, funny speech about the future of products - Blobjects! Are you a Gizmo user, or a Spime Wrangler? http://www.boingboing.net/
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One thousands words on our era's war crime
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. Insightful...
From a Southern California architectural tour: http://www.caboomfest.com/
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Cool monkey photos and great Web site design: http://www.manipulator.com/website/monkey/
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August 8 to 14, 2004
Revitalize the Waterfront and Downtown http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2000/May/08/
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Our wonderful Presidential candidates: http://j-walkblog.com/blog/
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August 2 to 8, 2004
If you think such an operation cannot be financially viable, think about the bigger, hidden economic net benefits for nearby restaurants, stores, galleries, and bars. And without attracting nightl...
Check out the incredible satellite
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s you can view on this baby...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
This is a picture of a hard drive from circa 1975. It only held "a few megabytes": http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/
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July 19 to 25, 2004
Google, circa 1960: http://fury.com/
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"Nations Lite" http://www.trendwatching.com/resources/
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July 12 to 18, 2004
Are you glad your husband's an engineer? This 1956 ad made me laugh: http://www.thoughtviper.com/inexob/
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Don't forget to hear Molvania's entry into the Eurovision song contest - "Elektronik Supersonik": http://www.molvania.com/
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June 7 to 13, 2004
"Declining respect for American cultural values exacerbated by the crisis in Iraq is having a potentially disastrous effect on the
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of US brands such as McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Nike an...
May 24 to 30, 2004
"300
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s from 1800 sites...
May 17 to 23, 2004
The story of a really, really bad neighbor: http://www.mostemailed.com/
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May 10 to 16, 2004
A nice aerial photo of a New York cab in winter. Also see Vincent LaForet's other aerial photos: http://www.vincentlaforet.com/exhibit/aerials/
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A wrought-iron covered VW bug: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/
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May 3 to 9, 2004
The Volkswagen ball, from the Berkshire Botanical Garden. Sculpture by Lars-Erik Fisk: http://www.decordova.org/
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April 19 to 25, 2004
Some of the best entries in a Photoshop contest. Theme: merge two animals! http://www.totaltapeservices.com/
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Technology has been developed that takes
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s of old, damaged vinyl records and produces restored music. Many ramifications for the historical preservation of recordings...
March 8 to 14, 2004
The most comprehensive picture even taken from the Hubble Telescope was unveiled. It shows nearly 10,000 galaxies. They offer super-high resolution pictures, suitable for printing on large canvas a...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Face recognition technology will be incorporated into the MPEG-7 standard, allowing one to retrieve a scene with a specific person in a 24-hour video in one second. Of course, this has far-reachin...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Got a Windows PC? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Thanks to the recent Windows code leak, this security vulnerability has been found - if you're running Explorer version 5, simply loading a certain imag...
It's been tested by the FBI and is so accurate its results are now admissible in court. "[it's] ... a method of reading the brain's involuntary electrical activity in response to a subject being show...
February 2 to 8, 2004
Advertisers are now using MRIs to correlate
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affinity to brain activity: "Big government and big companies have been trying to manipulate us since the start of time," [says a study volunteer]...
The
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of Buddha, automatically generated by a simple mathematical algorithm that plots points on the real and imaginary planes...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Hope everyone had a happy 2003! Kev's News is now six months old. (Obligatory holiday picture link below): http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/
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December 1 to 7, 2003
Have you ever seen a gigpixel
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October 27 to November 2, 2003
The first optical processor, which computes at the speed of light... http://lenslet.com/
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October 27, 2003
Next year public, free globally connected 10-foot high 24-hour cylindrical videoconferencing portals will be set up in major cities...
October 20, 2003
Finally, on an artistic note, beautiful painterly abstract photos taken from the sides of boxcars: http://www.timdavisart
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October 6, 2003
An
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September 30, 2003
"A prototype digital video system producing
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s of such high quality that the human eye struggles to distinguish them from reality has been developed by Japanese engineers...
September 22, 2003
"The Revenge of the Copyright Cops" http://www.nytimes.com/
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August 12, 2003
Octopus Camouflage http://www.tonmo.com/
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August 4, 2003
Why graphic design (and choosing the right font) is important: http://www.cd933.com/big%20radio/
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