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Here’s an interesting mix of old and new technology.

Old technology in this case is an old newspaper box where people used to buy newspapers from. New technology is a Mac Mini and flat screen monitor. Combined you get a digital newsstand that pulls information directly from the internet for display.

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Fantastic demo on something that’s going to be prevalent in our homes in the very near future at an affordable price. Now, they just need to find the applications that can make use of the technology to its fullest.

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(via Gizmodo)

Technorati Tags: microsoft, surface computing, technology

The following music video was submitted for the Modest Mouse video competition by Max Tyrie.

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What’s amazing about the video is how they made it. Here’s Max Tyrie’s blog post of what they didMyself and a couple have friends have entered the above into the Modest Mouse video competition. Using green screen footage provided [...]

I previously blogged about a video “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us”. And someone has created a companion video for it.

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(via The Shifted Librarian)

Technorati Tags: anthropology, digital, ethnography, hypermedia, videos, web 2.0

Since the Apple AirPort Extreme was silently announced during the Macworld conference in January 2007 together with Apple TV with a shipping date in February, I was already thinking of placing an online order for it. At that point of time, my previous router, a D-Link 634, was alos giving problems with connection [...]

Over the past Saturday, one of foremost Photoshop authors, Bruce Fraser, passed away after a short bout with lung cancer. Besides being an author, he was a contributing editor of Macworld, speaker, and a partner of PixelGenius, a company that designs Photoshop plugins.

I’ve personally read quite a number of books written by him since I [...]