British author Simon Reynolds recently decried the obsession in music for all things old made “new” again. I wonder why we’re so obsessed with the past, particularly in music, because that’s my thing. A lot of the other retro phenomena I find vaguely amusing, but the music is a genuine worry because
While listening to an NPR segment about a young girl who had outfitted her fish tank with MIDI sensors, Michael Rosenblatt realized that more kids should be creating machines. Rosenblatt was part of the first generation of the iPod team and his new project ATOMS Express wants to put machinery in the
James Kochalka, author of the American Elf series and contributor to KS issue #2, had some problems with his Wii U. So, of course, he made an adorable comic about it.
If you’re curious what even a moment of a worker of an MTA pump train is like, David Albert, Michael Geraci, and Nicholas Bergson-Schilcock have an answer for you. Much like Diner Dash and Tapper before it, Pump Train is manic “spinning plates” style game that has you thrillingly at the helm of a, u
Students at the Miami Ad School have developed a genius idea for the holidays. Called Donation Box, this app would sit on your iDevice home screen and allow you to turn in unused apps in exchange for charity. It’s just a concept and of course, would require Apple’s full cooperation, but it does poin
