American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Ikea II

Josh posted about the excellent Ikea website set up right now with slow motion shots that allow you to travel through the frame a little while ago. Well, now we bring you a one-off from that.
Outside the US in, let’s say Sweden (just a guess from the test), they have another great site that allows [...]

One More Time, With Feeling

WeFeelFine is a project I learned about at the Beautiful/Decay: Vis/Ed event last week.
To learn more about Jonathan Harris, the mind behind WeFeelFine you can watch a video of him talking about this project and his new project, Universe on CoolHunting. Anyway…
WeFeelFine is a project that… Well, actually, they have a really good description of [...]

Bad Neighbor Policy

Do you have awful neighbors? Maybe a slum lord managing your building? Feel like you have no recourse about the problems you are dealing with in your current situation? Well, that really kind of sucks. And this isn’t going to make things too much better for you, but it will help others from falling into [...]

Rise of the Machines

Remember when I wrote about the armed robots patrolling the streets in Iraq? Well, it might be time to start worrying about those machines.
Here’s the deal: “Many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic — picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger.” Well, one of these [...]

Keep on…dancing, smiling

The human-controlled robot dances and interacts.
From http://beatbots.org:

Human social behavior shares much in common with dance. Our speech, as well as the movement of our body, head, and hands, is periodic and rhythmic. The goal of the BeatBots project is to develop robots that can interact with people by synchronizing with these social rhythms. We believe [...]

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