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Augmentia Redux

As I've been working through this I've kind of ended up with a "Collection of Curiosities". I'll try to shout them out as I go.
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Augmentia

Augmented Reality isn't just an academic or even safe exercise. It connects in a very primal and critical way to who we are as humans.
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GOSH (Grounding Open Source Hardware) in Banff

A global meetup, across all disciplines- creative, strategic, user experience based and business-minded. The Grounding Open Source Hardware (GOSH!) Summit at The Banff Centre serves to bring together the many and disparate makers, producers, theorizers, and promoters of physical objects that come to life under open and distributed models. (From the website) This Banff New [...]
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It’s Better Than Butter – It’s Spreadable Media!

Here, I would like to share some videos with you. This is what the Internet is for — spreadable media. Rafter “Juicy” Music Video By Dax Norman from dax norman on Vimeo. M83 We Own The Sky Music Video by Dax Norman from dax norman on Vimeo.
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DIY Synesthesia with Drawdio – Draw Audio!

Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (cheap circuit thumb-tacked on) and then play them with your finger. The Drawdio circuit-craft lets you MacGuyver your everyday objects into musical instruments: paintbrushes, macaroni, trees, grandpa, even the kitchen sink… Drawdio was developed by Jay Silver of MIT’s Media Lab. “One day I [...]
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Mushrooms – peril or menace?

@reidab on mushrooms
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Shelly Farnham of Dorkbot Seattle on the Intersection of Technology and Art

Tonight, Shelly Farnham presented a more national perspective Viewing a scene in the air (a camera attached to a hot air balloon) with VR goggles. Then she talked about Oracles. The Barnum Effect The idea that people will project self desired information into anything (which is why horoscopes work so well). This worked also for the [...]
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