I can’t remember how this came up over lunch, but it turns out there’s a horror movie about QR codes that re-program your mind to not see them. Or something. Here’s the trailer.
It’s time for you to see the fnords.
The big news of the week – apart from the fact our governments are spying on everything – was the reveal of iOS 7, with lots of pretty pastels replacing the photorealistic textures that used to dominate the user interface. Even the BBC ran an article called What is skeuomorphism (with a few quotes from yours truly).
For me, the highlight of the Apple keynote was Anki:
Remote control toy cars, all driven by Bluetooth from the phone, all independently steering themselves with artificial intelligence? What’s not to like.
Some stuff to read:
The Internet of Actual Things, by Giles Turnbull at The Morning News.
“Your light bulbs will narrate their agonizing deaths.”
The New Aesthetic: James Bridle’s Drones and Our Invisible, Networked World, at Vanity Fair. Awesome to see multiple friends-of-BERG (including our own Matt Jones) in a brilliant and well-deserved profile of James. Says Bridle: “It’s the thing we’re living inside, and I’m keeping an eye on it.”
Fnord.
Hey, so Little Printer exists in the Marvel universe.
And finally, the science fiction corridor archive.
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1. Loïs Boullu said on 15 June 2013...
Anki made me think about that: http://www.ted.com/talks/raffaello_d_andrea_the_astounding_athletic_power_of_quadcopters.html