NPR Music: Technology Puts the Universal Back in Music has a segment about a company called Voxonic which uses voice samples to construct songs in foreign languages in the creators voice. It sounds like they cut up samples and use those to reconstruct the rhythm and structure. The site has some interesting examples.
ArsTechnica has A tour of Google’s new Experimental Search. Verdict: awesome. I don’t think this is really breaking news, but it is an interesting look into the new features that google is preparing. Undoubtedly from someones 20% projects. I’m a big fan of the timeline view it’s a great way to visualize […]
Someone has built a human carrying electric plane. The original site was in French so here’s Translated version of http://www.apame.eu/Projet03.html. Now all they need is some solar panels on the wings.
Check out this Interview With Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney On Technology Issues so far it’s the only one that I’ve seen where a candidate has talked about tech issues directly. This of course is of great interest to me. I’m in no way endorsing Romney, but I think it’s important to do all […]
Chris Harrison has done some visualization work on the relationships of name in the bible. It’s a large relationship made that he’s done a number of interesting different ways. Quite elegant and beautiful.Chris Harrison - Visualizing the Bible
MIT in it’s infinite wisdom has already made all it’s courses available online via Open Course Ware. Since they’ve done this they’ve now released the material for their 6.189 Multicore Programming Primer: PS3 Cell Programming. Dig in and learn some parallel algorithm and other geeky things.
There is a child who has taken on the immune system and blood type of the donor of her replacement liver. Speculation is stem cells in the liver have replaced her marrow and hence replaced her blood to mimic the blood of the donor. This has had similar effect on the immune system […]
In Lee Valley Tools - Woodworking Newsletter Vol. 2, Issue 2 a 16 year old kid from Quebec, has created a fully wooden bicycle. It’s quite amazing. He talks about the challenge of making the chain which was certainly the hardest part. It’s quite esthetically pleasing, but I can’t imagine it’s easy […]
To go along with yesterdays find about sensory deprivation, here’s a link from Best Free Documentaries: BBC Horizon: Total Isolation about a similar if not the same experiment. I haven’t watched it myself, but I’ll comment when I do.
The BBC has an article about sensory deprivation. The experiment and anecdotes related by the people involved are quite interesting. They talk about hallucinations and sensing people in the rooms. Sounds like this research might be able to give us more insight into the feeling of ghosts and maybe out of body […]