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fMRI allows you to control a robot with just your thoughts.
Research earlier this year from the Advanced Virtuality Lab at the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel demonstrated that it is possible to control a virtual or robotic avatar with only your mind. While EEG human-computer interaction—like Emotiv—as well as eye-tracking and neural implants have been in
How to moralize the manufacturing of technological addiction.
In a recent article on Tech Crunch, Nir Eyal—a founder of two startups and a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business—admits that he wants you to be addicted to his products. Despite the abounding rhetorical drug associations, he believes that a certain reinterpretation of a
LEPOS is at it again with another street art videogame clip.
KS fave Diego Bergia has a new project called The Primary Invasion and took a run at recreating the Street Fighter 2 car destruction bonus level. Bergia’s a big fan of games and put together an amazing LEPOS exhibition with a fake Neo Geo arcade cabinet.
We’re hiring a new Managing Editor.
For the past two years, Ryan Kuo has been our wonderful managing editor. Before that, he helped us put issue 1 to bed way back when. Now, he’s headed to MIT to pursue a Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology. We wish him well and he’ll be posting a farewell note later. But in the interim,
Kickstarter as pure entertainment.
Kickstarter rarely delivers a viable market product, so what makes a Kickstarter project make money? Professor and creator Ian Bogost at Fast Company sees the most attractive projects like compulsory TV. The instant jackpots, like the OUYA, are not the ones that are in high enough demand to float th
On modern travel as consumption and its digital opposite.
Amherst professor Ilan Stavans laments the state of modern tourism, fearing that we’re missing the point. Modern tourism does not promise transformation but rather the possibility of leaving home and coming back without any significant change or challenge. Tourists may enjoy the visit only because i
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