pretty cool video.

The Future Of The Virtual Personal Assistant | TechCrunch

ugh, ethics/morality/politics all come into consideration here. Who’s doing that research right now?

oooh, my kind of tumblr! mediology: screenshotsofdespair: You can’t go forward from where you are right now. (Spotify) [@matthewbaldwin] This entire collection is great. (via Design Observer)

oooh, my kind of tumblr!

mediology:

screenshotsofdespair:

You can’t go forward from where you are right now.

(Spotify) [@matthewbaldwin]

This entire collection is great. (via Design Observer)

She took out her BlackBerry, and as the track began to play she surfed through lists of phrases she had copied from magazines and television programs. She showed me a few: “life in the fast lane,” “crying shame,” “high and mighty,” “mirrors don’t lie,” “don’t let them see you cry.” Some phrases were categorized under headings like “Sex and the City,” “Interjections,” and “British Slang -

Stargate and Ester Dean, Making Music Hits : The New Yorker

I have spent days doing this myself. wonder if I could do this….

finally ?

revoltfactory:

Supermarket scanner recognizes objects without barcodes

Toshiba Tec has now created the Object Recognition Scanner, which reads items without the use of barcodes.

(via Springwise)

(via uxrave)

Hookers

lerabbithole:

“It’s not enough to have one hook anymore,” Jay Brown, the president of Roc Nation, and Dean’s manager, told me recently. “You’ve got to have a hook in the intro, a hook in the pre-chorus, a hook in the chorus, and a hook in the bridge.” The reason, he explained, is that “people on average give a song seven seconds on the radio before they change the channel, and you got to hook them.”

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/26/120326fa_fact_seabrook#ixzz1prDZet5P

…tears of joy…. (also, this)

…tears of joy…. (also, this)

Tags: mysql

“Bikes”

from this reddit post on “youtube haikus” very worth checking out. the original video at the top (“Did I win?”) is also great.

from engadget:

This is the Miselu Neiro, a “portable, net-enabled social music device” which was announced this weekend at SXSW. We were able see and handle the first-ever prototype fresh off the lab bench at the SoundCloud Open House in Austin. The app-based, Android-powered synth features a two octave velocity and pressure-sensitive keyboard, a capacitive multitouch widescreen, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity and even a webcam. Battery life is expected to be in the five to six hour range. The laptop-sized instrument features audio I/O, MIDI I/O, two USB ports, an HDMI port and an SD card slot. It currently runs Gingerbread on a dual-core TI OMAP processor — although those aren’t the final specs.

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

I’ve wanted to be able to download audio tracks of bloggers reading their posts. One blog that i’d particularly like to hear read is AVC.com, Fred Wilson’s blog. 

Honestly, I’m a bit frustrated at the “digital readers”—the lifeless voices that can be tacked onto blog posts after the fact. 

So I recorded myself reading it. Yes, I am not Fred Wilson. And, no, I don’t claim I can record this, but I figured I’d give it a shot to see what it’s like. It was actually a bit more difficult than I expected. Specifically, I had to read the post a couple times to make sure I got the annunciation down correct. Also, I live in a noisy neighborhood and not one did background noises interfere with the recording (note to self: next time shut the window). 

Anyways, here’s a recording of Wilson’s last blog post “Yahoo! Crosses the Line”. I might do this for my own posts on new-attitude.tumblr.com in the future. I’d like to see how that’d work, and see if having written the posts myself makes it easier to record quickly.

Craig Burnett, an associate director at White Cube, told Marclay to consider the first six months a “feasibility study”; by then, he’d know if the global archive of cinema could accommodate his thin-slice vision. One issue that didn’t give Marclay pause was copyright, because nobody had objected before to his appropriation art. He had a theory: “If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it. - New Yorker on Christian Marclay’s work The Clock

(Source: newyorker.com)

(Source: dusdin)

The firm says that microcontrollers based on the “Flycatcher” architecture will pave the way for the “internet of things” - the spread of the net to a wider range of devices. -

and my mouth starts watering.

“Arm’s latest processors aim to stretch internet’s reach” (BBC News)