Not really news, but I haven’t yet seen such a simple description.

Morgan Currie was that kind to transcribe the opening talk from Bruce Sterling at the confernce “You Me and Everyone We Know is a Curator” in Amsterdam last december.
read it here: http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2009/12/21/bruce-sterling-gothic-chic-in-the-future-favela/
He’ll  be also talking at the opening of the transmediale this february in Berlin. So don’t miss it!
theres also a video of the [...]

could not embed this one so head over to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/video_and_audio/8392111.stm
and here a more detailed report from physorg.com: http://www.physorg.com/news178976346.html
“A group of European scientists said Wednesday they have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts.”

Researcher from the University of Tokyo invented a paint that resonates at the same frequency as wi-fi.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8279549.stm

very nice animation movie by Jérémy Clapin:

Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) from Stephen Dedalus on Vimeo.

“Inside Bill Moorier’s Head [abstractnonsense.com] is a relatively simple online brain MRI image viewer that allows for the interactive exploration of a collection of medical MRI brain images.”
here is the link
via information aesthetics

a project from aram bartholl. loving it!
hey and you can build your own one (? pair … however) here

“On This stupendous Lp Aldous Huxley narrates his eerily prophetic Brave New World”
check it out here

“In a study of 23 non-football athletes who each kicked 10 field goals, researchers found that players’ performance directly affected their perception of the size of the goal: After a series of missed kicks, athletes perceived the post to be taller and more narrow than before, while successful kicks made the post appear larger-than-life [...]
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