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animated paint

Posted on April 11th by Leonardo Bonanni.
Flickr introduced high-quality video to its amazing array of social image sharing functionality - a new medium for the web (see the best videos here). To celebrate here is
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Virtual Perception and Paranoia

Posted on April 9th by Shae Davidson.
Daniel Freeman, a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, is leading a project that uses virtual public transportation to understand the nature of paranoia and social perception.  ...
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recording elegance

Posted on April 8th by Leonardo Bonanni.
HARUO OBA presented “special moments” today at CHI 2008 - two brilliant tangible recording interfaces mapped to physical phenomena. The BOOK RECORDER consists of two clips - one in the ...
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tragic toys

Posted on April 8th by Leonardo Bonanni.
Healthy Toys keeps track of the deadliest children’s products on the market - in terms of lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, bromine, and antimony (in parts per million). You can check out ...
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the war on heroism

Posted on April 4th by Leonardo Bonanni.
In response to New York City’s ‘If you see something, say something‘ campaign for mass hysteria, Alyssa Wright has made hero reports, a site where you can say something ...
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connecting flights

Posted on April 3rd by Leonardo Bonanni.
dopplr is a social network for keeping track of you and your friends’ trips - and making sure you see each other when you get a chance. saul griffith ...
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collaborative conscience

Posted on April 2nd by Leonardo Bonanni.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Clay Ward, founder of thoughtandmemory.org, an on-line resource for tracking supply chains and developing user-generated ratings of companies based on social and environmental performance. ...
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barter for good

Posted on March 31st by Leonardo Bonanni.
Inspired by the OLPC’s ‘Give one, Get one‘ campaign and Product (RED), brandnext’s THE STORE FOR TOMORROW is an exploration of how consumerism could be transformed into a meaningful ...
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one accessory per child

Posted on March 29th by Leonardo Bonanni.
The brilliant Mike Lee invented a viewfinder for the OLPC’s built-in digital camera (a perfect example of futurecraft) and has already made rapid prototypes - check them out ...
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personal climate

Posted on March 25th by Leonardo Bonanni.
Saul Griffith has made available his notes and slides for a powerpoint entitled ‘The Game Plan‘ detailing the necessary steps to be taken as individuals and society to reverse climate ...
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material memory

Posted on March 24th by Leonardo Bonanni.
in 2005 filmmaker bilge sehir presented a hoax thought experiment called ‘vases sonores‘ (sonorous vases) which hypothesized that the sounds occurring during the etching of ancient pottery were recorded by the ...
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toy story

Posted on March 20th by Leonardo Bonanni.
It’s a rainy first day of Spring here in Boston, a good time to watch Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior’s video on working conditions in the Hung Hing factory in ...
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rent-a-purse

Posted on March 19th by Leonardo Bonanni.
Ever wish you could always stay up-to-date with the latest trends in fashion? Bags to Riches will rent you the latest purse - for $30-$300 - for a month, along with ...
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pod docks

Posted on March 18th by Leonardo Bonanni.
how far have we come? ipods are supposed to be the best design of today, yet they’re more plain than a walkman was twenty years ago. just look at the ...
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webs of influence

Posted on March 17th by Leonardo Bonanni.
I’ve been interested in depictions of the evolution of ideas and cultural movements since posting about Timothy Stotz’s amazingly complex evolutionary diagram of 500 years of art. Here are some other ...