5 Demos Where Code Meets Music

Harold Halibut

Video game created by @slow-bros is an adventure whose assets were originally handmade to produce a stop-motion feel to the experience:

Harold Halibut is a modern adventure game, with a strong focus on storytelling and exploration. Set in a spaceship, stuck under sea on a distant water planet, you slip into the tiny shoes of Harold. As a young janitor and lab assistant to Professor Jeanne Mareaux, one of the lead scientists on board, he tries to help out in her attempt to find a way to relaunch the ship.

All that can be seen in the game is carefully built in a real-world workshop using classic sculpting, set building and clay and puppet fabrication techniques. We’re not even buying supplemental model train trees or anything.

Our love of stop-motion films, childhood nostalgia and respect for traditional craftsmanship are some reasons for this. Patience and taking a break from an ultra-fast paced digital reality are big factors as well. 

The project has just released a kickstarter campaign which has more information, which you can find here

Fractal Friday ॐ Not my photo ॐ

Robotic LED Display

Currently being installed in Times Square, Radius Displays have created a shape changing screen made from an array of motorized panels:

A post shared by Radius (@radiusdisplays) on Jun 16, 2017 at 1:12pm PDT

There is very little information to find about the project, other than it is currently installed and testing and officially launching soon - the best bet is to keep an eye on Instagram here

Update

It will make an official debut on August the 8th [Link]

This nanochip reprograms cells to heal organs. The tissue nanotransfection device is a noninvasive nanochip that transports genes to cells through an electrical charge.

follow @the-future-now

Abstract Poster Inspired by Ghost in the Shell

Scrying Pen

Webtoy by Andy Matuschak uses neural network-trained SketchRNN dataset to visualize in realtime potential sketch marks whilst you are drawing particular objects:

This pen’s ink stretches backwards into the past and forwards into possible futures. The two sides make a strange loop: the future ink influences how you draw, which in turn becomes the new “past” ink influencing further future ink.

Put another way: this is a realtime implementation of SketchRNN which predicts future strokes while you draw.

Currently works best in Chrome, you can try it out for yourself here

This teenager invented an AI-based app that can quickly diagnose eye disease

This ingenious system is called Eyeagnosis, and Kopparapu recently presented it at the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence conference in New York.

Her name is Kavya Kopparapu and she’s a 16-year-old high school junior. She just might be a South Asian-American Bill Gates in the making. 

Supervised Machine Learning Trainer 3607A

Speculative Design video short from Benedict Hubener, Keyur Jain, and James Zhou of CIID imagines how the future of Smart City maintenence works, with on-site engineers handling Machine Learning equipment with surveillance infrastructure:

In the near future, cities are filled with smart infrastructure such as decentralized security cameras, self-sorting trashcans and intelligent street lights. But who do you call when smart things breaks? The future smart city is not a sci-fi dystopia made out of glass, concrete, and job stealing robots. It’s place much like our own and filled with the banality of everyday life and mundane jobs. Regardless of how you imagine the future smart city, someone needs to get in their white van, take out their ladder, and fix broken things.

The SMLT 3607A or Supervised Machine Learning Trainer is a tool for the future city maintenance worker. He/she can use the SMLT to interface with abnormally behaving smart infrastructure such as a surveillance camera identifying people as eggplants. He/she can retrain the smart camera by recording new examples in real time. The future maintenance worker will teach the camera what it’s seeing and curator the training dataset. He/she will help the camera learn the difference between people and objects and decide who should be classified as an upstanding citizen or a petty criminal.

Link

Bitcoin micropayments: Coming to smartphones—and toasters?—everywhere

Micropayments might not top your list of most compelling inventions, but they’re a sought-after capability. Small payments of less than a dollar, or even less than a cent, have the potential to shake up old, established business models, and open up new doors for the Internet of Everything.

Small digital payments have been tried again and again—in fact, Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee tried to embed micropayment capability into the original World Wide Web, but without success. So far, inherent transaction costs have been an unsurpassable hurdle.

Some argue that digital payment methods like bitcoin are the way forward.

继续阅读

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