2045: A NEW ERA FOR HUMANITY
If you know anything about Singularity or Kurzweil or approximately %79.77 of sci-fi works, you will be very, very excited. Russian media magnate Dmitry Itskov is heading “Avatar,” a tremendously ambitious and far-reaching multidisciplinary research project that aims to achieve immortality in humans within the next three decades. He plans to do it by housing ..read more..
INTERACTIVE PIANO
Introducing the world’s first interactive piano, tweet your song or message to @StanleyPiano and make your request live during the Block Party (July 20-22). If you’re unable to attend the event, you may tune in online where he will be streaming through the event. When users tweet to @StanleyPiano, song requests are filtered and added ..read more..
THE CHROME STORY SO FAR
Chrome launched in September 2008, and its journey has been filled with inspiring & beautiful achievements of developers using the modern web. Google is just getting started though, and we can’t wait to see where you take things next!
PAPER FIFTY TREE, DRAWING APP
Paper was designed from the ground up for touch and creating on the go. It keeps you in the flow with no fussy buttons, settings or other distractions. Paper works the way you think, like a familiar notebook or journal. Have all of your ideas with you in one place. Five essential tools optimized for the ..read more..
ROBERT BUELTEMAN ELECTRIFIES IMAGES
Forget the notion of a reverent nature photographer tiptoeing through the woods, camera slung over one shoulder, patiently looking for perfect light. Robert Buelteman works indoors in total darkness, forsaking cameras, lenses, and computers for jumper cables, fiber optics, and 80,000 volts of electricity. Buelteman’s technique is an elaborate extension of Kirlian photography (a high-voltage ..read more..
MOBILE PHONES HAVE REACHED 75% OF THE WORLD
On July 17, the World Bank released a study showing that approximately three quarters of our world’s population currently has access to a mobile phone. Since 2000, the number of mobile phone subscriptions has skyrocketed from 1 billion to over 6 billion. Additionally, over 30 billion apps were downloaded last year alone. Additionally, 5 billion ..read more..
ESCALE NUMERIQUE, A WIFI URBAN STATION
Escale Numérique, a connected haven of peace available to everyone. Set up on the Rond Point des Champs-Elysées, Escale Numérique is a revival of the underground fibre optic network which is now supplying the capital, ‘Like the Wallace fountains, which since the end of the 19th century have offered Parisian the free drinking water which was ..read more..
A PEEK INSIDE APPLE’S RECRUITING PROCESS
Apple’s marketing, and no doubt, even Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography, may lead you to believe that the iPad was made by two guys mulling over a CNC machine in a secret lab. But in reality, today’s complex products can’t be built by solitary Thomas Edisonian personalities (and indeed, even Edison had a sizable lab ..read more..
