Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Despite their prevalence, building standards really only... the last century. A major turning point in their wild pr... in the 1920s, when the German government made the then-r... standardize the size of office paper.
This seemingly bureaucratic move i

But keyboards may have an impact on the emotional associations we have with words as well. It has been found that words consisting of a higher proportion of letters from the right-hand side of a QWERTY keyboard – those from “y”, “h⮮.

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Apple’s touch-based devices have changed the way we in... computers entirely, but that hasn’t stopped users from... thinking wistfully of the days when physical keyboards r... Tactus has taken that desire to heart, and the startup‮..
Tactus co-f

In a lab in southern California scientists are curing th... incurable with little more than a mirror, and changing o... the brain in the process.
In mid-November the team at the University of California ...
That study is in its very early stages, but si

It looks like something from the Borg (read, cool), but ...
The Osteoid, created by Turkish student Deniz Karasahin, ...
The idea of ultrasonic healing vibrations to heal bones ...
Take a look at the pic below and you’ll see the Osteoi ...
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As part of the Lexus Design Amazing exhibition in Milan,... table made up of more than 1,000 squares arranged in a t... attached to a motor beneath the surface. The Transform c... depending upon how users interact with it and can also m... itself to i

A DARPA director argues that the end of the Moore's Law ... essentially why you now have a tablet in your hand -- co... because of insurmountable economic challenges.

Asda supermarket launches 3D printing service
News: Asda is to become the first UK supermarket to offe ...

We're only just at the beginning of the 'quantified self... tracks movement, diet and other issues using gadgets

I was one of the people who funded Leap otion on Kicksta... wowed by the potential of the product. I put my money do... eager anticipation. I loved the idea of an almost magica... interacting. I dreamt of the way it might, might, help m...
I have been

A substantial amount of literature has demonstrated indi... to code verbally a series of movements for subsequent re... mechanisms underlying movement encoding remain unclear. ... argue that sensorimotor expertise influences the involve... processes t

The company that developed 3D printed gun parts has anno... launch a new firm, dedicated to copyright-free blueprint...
Defcad, as the firm will be known, has already been dubb ...
The site will become a "search engine for 3D printing," ...
But its flo

With "immersive media" taking content well beyond the TV... technology is attempting to move virtual reality towards... closer to real life.
Whether it be a cave, an igloo or a theatre, virtual rea ...
Full 360-degree screens are now capable of taking a

MYO - Wearable Gesture Control from Thalmic Labs

The gold fibres in the uniform, the product of years of ... actually do that communications work yet. Currently, the... a uniform," Joannopoulos tells Wired.com: They're about ... diameter, and Joannopoulos wants to scale down to 100 mi...
The fibres

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also... ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "powe... standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't ... can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain... have an imp

Cards are like a digital equivalent to the traditional a... concept of marrying form and function — so that the wa... inseparable from what the thing is. "These are objects,"... feel, not necessarily real, but they feel virtual. They⮮. be fake thi

According to the International Society of Prosthetics an... there are some 32 million amputees in the world today, a...
Eric Ronning's ReHand, made mostly out of parts fabr ...
Eric Ronning's ReHand won US$10,000 at UW-Madison's ...
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So they’re not exactly cute, but if you came of age du... chances are you have at least regrettable tattoo anyway.... if that same tattoo is in the shape of a butterfly!) B... temporary tattoos do much more than serve as a symbol of... they can re

Our bodies may some day become extensions for smartphone... devices, if a new Nokia patent is any indication.
Nokia has patented magnetic material that would alert we ...

Metamaterials are proving to be quite useful for toying ... electromagnetic spectrum, whether for technology previou... the stuff of science fiction, or for boring real-world a... Engineers at Duke University have come up something that... the latter

zSpace is a revolutionary, immersive, interactive 3D env... computing, creating, communication and entertainment.

A Passenger Airplane Basically Flew Upside Down Because ... (Updated)Update: Thanks to Gizmodo reader, Randy, we hav... on how this happened. As you can see in that picture, th... the cockpit door lock switch are no more than 10cm apart... door (the s

I've created a technique for converting digital audio fi... printable 33rpm records and printed some functional prot... weekend. These records play on regular turntables, with ... regular speeds, just like any vinyl record. The audio on...
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Over in Belgium, scientists have finally taken a crucial... building screens into contact lenses.
Jelle De Smet and a team of researchers at Ghent Univers ...
To do it, they had to come up with new kinds of "conduct ...

Nimbus Cukurcuma Hamam II, 2012
Lambda Print
75 x 100 / 125 x 167 cm
... Photo: Onur Dag

“What I’m going to tell you sounds like a fairy tale... told Smithsonian magazine in 1999. “I poked my four fi... and for whatever reason — I didn’t know — I pulled... and drew four lines. I said: ‘Golly! Now I have four l... could be wi