arpeggia:

Martin Soto Climent - Frame, 2012, frames, tights, dimensions variable

Images courtesy of T293, Naples, Rome

Framing sexuality… only in an Italian mind…

likeafieldmouse:

Shattered glass and resin sculptures by Daniel Arsham (2013)

How do you feel? I know I’m tired…

artchipel:

Ethan Murrow - Série Doppler Doppelganger - All Mine. Crayon sur papier, 91x91 cm (2011)

Fabulous… A Terry Gilliamesque high rise housing idea…

contemporaryartdaily:

Dan Rees at Tanya Leighton

The ideas machine…

How many people believe in me? You’re joking? Stop making me laugh!  I’ve already cracked one rib…

Bit of App Screen grafitti…

CHRISTIANITY. Wealthiest religion in the world that continues to abuse the uneducated and the poorest in society. Biggest landlords in the world, yet millions are homeless. 

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emergentfutures:

CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook Dominates Social Logins — But Google Is Closing The Gap

Full Story: Business Insider

 

Imagine, if you will, how far mankind’s scientific advancements would be today, if it hadn’t lost 1,000 years of stagnating in a pool of piss created by christianity…

artchipel:

Mark Thompson | on Tumblr - The Weight Pressing. Oil on wood, 40x40 cm

A strange experience working without the rough grain of canvas…

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artchipel:

Mark Thompson | on Tumblr - Unhoused. Oil on Canvas (2010-11)

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Looks like a direct copy of a 2006 AppleMac Pro. Innovation? I don’t think so Google. Pah!

digithoughts:

The Chromebook Pixel — A flag in the ground

Ian Betteridge on the Chromebook Pixel:

But it’s  also a statement about Google, too, because it says that Google can do hardware with the same attention to detail and quality that Apple does. It’s not a shot across Apple’s bows, but more putting a flag in the ground that says “Come on Cupertino, we can do hardware — you think you can do services?”

A very passable explanation of what the Google Pixel might be about.

Very cute.

stonyslov:

La balade de petite flamme. by aurelie guillerey on Flickr.

HOORAY. Congratulations Japan! HAL and Cyberdyne, you can’t make that up…

neurosciencestuff:

Japan’s Robot Suit Gets Global Safety Certificate

A robot suit that can help the elderly or disabled get around was given its global safety certificate in Japan on Wednesday, paving the way for its worldwide rollout.

The Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL, is a power-assisted pair of legs developed by Japanese robot maker Cyberdyne, which has also developed similar robot arms.

A quality assurance body issued the certificate based on a draft version of an international safety standard for personal robots that is expected to be approved later this year, the ministry for the economy, trade and industry said.

The metal-and-plastic exoskeleton has become the first nursing-care robot certified under the draft standard, a ministry official said.

Battery-powered HAL, which detects muscle impulses to anticipate and support the user’s body movements, is designed to help the elderly with mobility or help hospital or nursing carers to lift patients.

Cyberdyne, based in Tsukuba, northeast of Tokyo, has so far leased some 330 suits to 150 hospitals, welfare and other facilities in Japan since 2010, at 178,000 yen ($1,950) per suit per year.

“It is very significant that Japan has obtained this certification before others in the world,” said Yoshiyuki Sankai, the head of Cyberdyne.

The company is unrelated to the firm of the same name responsible for the cyborg assassin played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1984 film “The Terminator”.

“This is a first step forward for Japan, the great robot nation, to send our message to the world about robots of the future,” said Sankai, who is also a professor at Tsukuba University.

A different version of HAL — coincidentally the name of the evil supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” — has been developed for workers who need to wear heavy radiation protection as part of the clean-up at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

Industrial robots have long been used in Japan, and robo-suits are gradually making inroads into hospitals and retirement homes.

But critics say the government has been slow in creating a safety framework for such robots in a country whose rapidly-ageing population is expected to enjoy ever longer lives.

(via futurescope)