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Curious how likely you are to enjoy your commute on the NYC subway system? Thanks to the New York Times’ Hack Day, there’s an app for that. HappyStance is an app that took a data set comprised of tens of thousands of tweets, and parsed them for proximity to New York City subway stations and for two
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Lego master builder Mike Doyle has posted an argument for pure mocs, or “my own creations,” Lego jargon for models that are built without the use of instructions. Doyle doesn’t think that models that make use of non-Lego material should count as Lego compositions, because it cheapens the awe that c
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On Friday, NYU announced its MFA for game design for its Game Center: The Game Center MFA is a 2-year Masters of Fine Arts degree that explores the design and development of games as a creative practice. The curriculum is centered on the creation of games and includes game design, criticism, program
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Scientists at M.I.T Media Lab, through the use of an ultrafast imaging system, have discovered a new way to capture light lassing through liquid and objects by recording an image in less than two-trillionths of a second. The project has a long and storied history detailed by John Markoff in yesterda
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This is the next step in the venerable Pilotwings franchise. Controlled with a Wiimote or PS Move controller, naturally. And you’ll still have the best looking lawn on the block. [video: Youtube]
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This Sims glitch highlights a pivotal scene from the new Expansion, The Sims: Movin’ to Elm Street.
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Lego has announced a new Lego line aimed at girls, and some folks on the internet are crying foul. (Imagine that!) A post on Jezebel called out the sets for dumbly stereotyping girls with “pink blocks” and a “Disney Princess” motif. The bits I found interesting, however, were the reasons why girls g
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The New York Times has an interesting piece out this week about languages constructed solely for the purpose of fiction. Invented languages have often been proposed to support anything from world peace to feminism, but few have been as successful as those of high fantasy and sci-fi. As with any new
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One of the world’s greatest art museums is replacing their audio guides with the Nintendo 3DS. Exciting stuff. We are the first museum in the world to do this,” Agnes Alfandari, museum’s head of multimedia told AFP. The Japanese giant Nintendo is supplying 5,000 of the latest-generation consoles, wh
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Pulmonaire’s Aftermath series of paintings show what happens when Katamari gets a little too real. The result is unsettling. [pic: Pulmonaire]
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In a recent episode of PBS’s micro-documentary series Off Book, titled Generative Art – Computers, Data, and Humanity, Will Wright chimes in on “Spore and the Metabrain,” likening the world-evolving game to social media. Technology… is allowing us to group together in specialized online communities
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Sure, we are familiar with the Call of Duty’s of the world where we are given full license to kill people with big guns and enjoy it. But there was something about Dutch company Pool Worldwide’s Google Shoot View that seemed a little…off. Using an API, the creative agency overlaid a huge hunk of gun