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video At a recent press preview in NYC, I had a chance to demo parts of the upcoming Rayman Legends, a follow-up to 2011’s Rayman Origins. Legends‘ gameplay will be familiar to fans of Origins, only slicker: it carries on Origins’ distinct, painterly art style, now with even more refinement and the
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This real-time simulation of a satellite revolving around a simple sphere may be the first computer-generated film. This film was a specific project to define how a particular type of satellite would move through space. Edward E. Zajac made, and narrated, the film, which is considered to be possibl
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In order to study our inner motivations for punishing one another, researchers used a series of games that allowed players to cheat. Each version of the game differed slightly in the amount of money that players could steal from each other. What they found wasn’t unpredictable by any means but inter
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When the Brooklyn tech agency called Breakfast signed on to help TNT advertise another detective show, called Perception, they built the billboard of the interactive future. Made out 44,000 black and white electromagnetic discs, the billboard displays letters until someone or something walks into it
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Alison Bechdel, author of the classic, queer comic Dykes to Watch Out For, is distinguished not only for her comic contributions, but for popularizing “The Bechdel Test,” a test for movies that has three requirements: One, it has to have at least two women in it, who Two, talk to each other about Th
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No, this is not a video from Deus Ex—though it certainly looks and sounds like one to me. Scientists from the US, UK, and Israel have developed a minimally invasive procedure to implant a chip that restores vision to people suffering from macular degeneration. ‘Bio-Retina incorporates various nano-
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Big things come in small packages, they say. And as it turns out, toymaker littleBits won’t be so little for much longer. They’ve just secured $3.65 million in funding and will soon be ramping up production. The toys are as easy to assemble as Legos—but as sophisticated as you would expect from the
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Matt Parker, former Eyebeam fellow and NYC game designer extraordinaire, has just released Recurse, one of the first game’s I’ve ever seen to use the front camera on the iPad. The object is simple — keep your body with the green blocks and avoid the red ones. Simple to play and lightly calesthenic,
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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
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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
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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.
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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,