Tag: technology
All the articles with the tag "technology".
Video post: I Saved a PNG to a Bird
Benn Jordan encodes an image into a spectrogram, teaches the sound to a starling, and recovers the drawing from the bird’s call.
Video post: The Electrifying Incident
A monster mini-expedition about exploring a facility, avoiding live electricity, and repairing a malfunctioning reactor.
Link post: Your Phone Wasn’t Built for the Apocalypse
Why the orange sky looks gray.
Photo post: iRock: A Power-Generating Rocking Chair
iRock is a power-generating rocking chair that charges Apple devices, harnessing its rocking motion through gears that wind a generator.
Link post: The Open Web Needs You Now
Daniel Glazman argues that web authors should test emerging standards, report implementation problems, and participate before browser behavior becomes entrenched.
Link post: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
A data visualization documenting how quickly many Android phones stopped receiving operating-system updates after release.
Photo post: Windows Developer Preview: The Third IE10 Platform Preview
The third Internet Explorer 10 platform preview, released alongside the Windows Developer Preview.
Photo post: Battery Charger by Donn Koh
A battery charger design concept by Donn Koh.
Link post: Dropbox Etiquette
I’m a huge fan of Dropbox. I use it every day both to make my work computer-agnostic and to collaborate with others.
Link post: Opera 11.10 Barracuda
Opera 11.10, codenamed Barracuda, brought an updated Speed Dial, improved plug-in installation, and broader web-standards support.
Link post: Android Gripes: Why do apps look worse on Android than iPhone, a programmer's perspective
A programmer’s perspective on why fragmentation, inconsistent platform conventions, and tooling made polished Android interfaces harder to produce.
Video post: Float4 - Wisconsin Institutes - Interactive Wall
Float4 collaborated with several partners to build a natural-user-interface interactive wall for the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, a research hub for campus and community members.
Link post: Life Beyond HTTP/1.1: Google’s SPDY
Ilya Grigorik examines Google’s SPDY protocol, its approach to multiplexing and compression, and its influence on the web beyond HTTP/1.1.
Video post: GOAB. A TV Experience Concept
Agency SYZYGY's concept video for GOAB, a proposed television experience that reimagines how people might watch TV as internet, on-demand and mobile viewing converge.
Photo post: Cool Concept: CO2 to O2 Converting ‘Treepods’
When tasked with creating a synthetic urban tree for the City of Boston (or any city) that could provide all the benefits of a real tree (de-carbonization and protection) without requiring soil and water, a team from Paris rose to the challenge.