How big tech hijacked its sharpest, funniest critics - MIT Technology Review
How design fiction was co-opted. A piece by Tim Maughan with soundbites from Julian Bleecker, Anab Jain, and Scott Smith.
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‘Black Mirror’ meets HGTV, and a new genre, home design horror, is born - Curbed
There was a time, circa 2009, when no home design story could do without a reference to Mad Men. There is a time, circa 2018, when no personal tech story should do without a Black Mirror reference.
Black Mirror Home. It’s all fun and games until the screaming starts.
When these products go haywire—as they inevitably do—the Black Mirror tweets won’t seem so funny, just as Mad Men curdled, eventually, from ha-ha how far we’ve come to, oh-no we haven’t come far enough.
Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware · cat /var/log/life
Well now, this is a clever bit of hardware hacking.
Surfaces viewed from an angle tend to look shiny, and you can tell if a finger is touching the surface by checking if it’s touching its own reflection.
Sound Mirrors
Before there was radar, there were acoustic mirrors along the coast of England—parabolic structures designed to funnel the distant sound of approaching aircraft.
The Camera in the Mirror
Kubrickian pictures taken by the Google robot wherein it captures its own reflection.
heather powazek champ - Message in a bottle: The Mirror Project
The Mirror Project is back! The Mirror Project is back!
This warms the cockles of my nostalgic little heart.
Huckleberry
A clever little periscope-like device that allows you to use your Macbook's iSight facing outwards.