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Face Maker

iOS app by Tim Sears for iPhone X lets you make your own Augmented Reality face masks which you can draw or import an image from your camera roll:

Face Maker Augmented Augmented is an exciting new way to shape the face around you. Using the TrueDepth camera technology of the iPhone X, along with new capabilities of ARKit, you can create incredible face experiences like never before.

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Sony has opened pre-orders for its $840 SmartEyeglasses — complete with a bulky frame that makes Google Glass look positively unobtrusive.

Until now, only an elite handful of computer scientists were aware that the Great A.I. Uprising secretly occurred in the late 1970s, and that we have been living in some jive-ass virtual environment ever since. Any time you hear disco music, it’s really just a glitch in the operational matrix. Can you dig it?

SP. 114 - Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Repairing the robotic hand.

“Free your mind”.

Machine Learning and Big Data Know it Wasn’t You Who Just Swiped Your Credit Card

by Jungwoo Ryoo, The Conversation

You’re sitting at home minding your own business when you get a call from your credit card’s fraud detection unit asking if you’ve just made a purchase at a department store in your city. It wasn’t you who bought expensive electronics using your credit card – in fact, it’s been in your pocket all afternoon. So how did the bank know to flag this single purchase as most likely fraudulent?

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Sacred Mathematics - Japanesse Temple Geometry

This is a book about a special kind of geometry that was invented and widely practiced in Japan during the centuries when Japan was isolated from Western influences. Japanese geometry is a mixture of art and mathematics. The experts communicated with one another by means of sangaku, which are wooden tablets painted with geometrical figures and displayed in Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. Each tablet states a theorem or a problem. It is a challenge to other experts to prove the theorem or to solve the problem. It is a work of art as well as a mathematical statement. Sangaku are perishable, and the majority of them have decayed and disappeared during the last two centuries, but enough of them have survived to fill a book with examples of this unique Japanese blend of exact science and exquisite artistry.

Copyright © 2008 by Princeton University Press and Oxford

http://kknop.com/math/sangaku.pdf

Dildo Generator

Online 3D experiment by Ikaros Kappler which is described as a “Extrusion/Revolution Generator” ….

Created with three.js, you can alter the bezier curves and angle of the form, and is designed with 3D printing in mind (models can be exported and saved, as well as calculated weight in silicone).

Try it out for yourself (if you wish) here