Sound design is een snel opkomend vak. En niet alleen de auto-industrie dingt met sound naar de gunst van de consument. Hoe gaat dat, geluid ontwerpen?
Link naar NRC artikel: Geen design zonder geluid
Filed under: Design, People, Science, Technology | Tags: biology, biotec, dna, human, organism
Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life | Video on TED.com
Can we create new life out of our digital universe?” Craig Venter asks. His answer is “yes” — and pretty soon. He walks through his latest research and promises that we’ll soon be able to build and boot up a synthetic chromosome.
Filed under: Design, Science, Technology | Tags: animals, Design, engineering, evolution, nature, robots
Robert Full on engineering and evolution | Video on TED.com
Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills — but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy only what’s necessary. He shows how human engineers can learn from animals’ tricks.
Filed under: Technology
Flock is relatively new browser with a focus on social webware-integration, in the forms of drag-and-drop, sidebars, etc. Description from site:
Flock is built on the Mozilla Firefox open-source browser, so it has all the features you’ve come to expect in a high-quality web browser, like intuitive buttons and menus, personal customizability, reliable security, enhanced privacy protections, and automated updating. However, Flock is much more than that! The Flock Social Web Browser has been fully integrated with a wide range of social networking websites and popular blogging tools. So with Flock, you can now keep in touch
and share text, links, pictures, video and more with friends, family and co-workers across the entire internet with unparalleled speed and seamless ease.
Guides:
Flock 1.0 User guide
Flock Newbie guide
Tags: flock, social browser, webware integration
Filed under: Design, Knowledge, People, Technology | Tags: emergence, network effects, organizing, photosynth, pictures
Emergentie, het geheel is meer dan de som der delen, network effects, 1+1=3, een mooi voorbeeld.
TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video)
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.
Over emergentie is trouwens op fabchannel een reeks lezingen te zien. In de zoekmachine zoeken op “paradisolezingen: 1+1=3″. Aanrader evenals de andere lezingen!
