Anti Facial Recognition Visor
Interesting approach to avoid identification from cameras by lighting key areas of the face (video embedded below, via the great DigInfo):
This is the world’s first pair of glasses which prevent facial recognition by cameras. They are currently under development by Japan’s National Institute of Informatics.
Photos taken without people’s knowledge can violate privacy. For example, photos may be posted online, along with metadata including the time and location. But by wearing this device, you can stop your privacy from being infringed in such ways.
“You can try wearing sunglasses. But sunglasses alone can’t prevent face detection. Because face detection uses features like the eyes and nose, it’s hard to prevent just by concealing your eyes. This is the privacy visor I have developed, which uses 11 near-infrared LEDs. I’m switching it on »
one of the best examples of #desifuturism yet
(via Netizens Marvel at the Facebook-Themed Hindu Temple – DramaFever Blog)
Good luck getting this page updated zuckerberg.
The Infuriating, Selfish Logic of Portland’s Anti-Fluoride Vote
There many great things about Portland, Oregon, but the fluoride rejection shows its worst: the tendency among progressive of that city (and many others!) to reframe the decades-old politics of selfishness as some hyper-enlightened liberalism. So they rationalize getting exactly what they want, all of the time.
David Fincher’s Thoughts on Digital
I like the fact that there’s no guilt, you can just delete stuff. If something’s not worth the time that it took for everyone to say it, you can just go beep and it’s gone. So I like the plastic nature of how I’m able to work in digital.
…. Also, you have a giant monitor that everybody, from the boom operator to the makeup artist to the actors to the dolly grip – everybody’s looking at the same thing: this is the final, release print, it’s not going to change. And everyone can see, that shit’s out of focus, or her eyelash is coming off in the middle of that take, or she’s got a spot on her teeth.
…. And also, I hate voodoo. I hate the whole thing that you’re going to see seven out of eight takes that »
Among the dark news of environmental disasters, corruption, and human tragedy, I write to share that thiscoming Saturday more than 100 Afghan artists will give away 10,000 pink balloons to the citizens of Kabul.
The artists—filmmakers, painters, musicians, photographers and crafters of traditional arts— are preparing to take part in the largest public art installation to ever take place in Afghanistan. This coming Saturdaymorning (May 25) they will be arming 10,000 citizens in the heart of the capital with pink balloons. Our headquarters will be the historic Park-e-Timur Shahi in the heart of the city.
Nathan from the Guardian Project, drops some knowledge about why need to encrypt all the things. Watch it, you’ll learn things.
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The consumer expectation for content these days is best summarized by the “pull-to-refresh” action.
Thoughts on Tumblr/Yahoo! | Blog @ Percolate (via elrolio)
Didn’t you suggest before Charlie that this is the content revolution?
1: Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2: Do not think it worthwhile to produce belief by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3: Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
4: When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5: Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6: Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7: Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
SOURCE: Forbes.com
This is all kinds of scary. Yahoo are obsessed with acquisitions of sites that execute services better as a way of getting you to use their product. The death sentence that was handed to Flickr through Yahoo’s integration is a prime example of how fast things can go a-wry in a simple business move.
It’s hard to fault David Karp if that number is really true though. A guy that never finished high school to making a billion dollar business deal is difficult to root against but I do hope that he holds up to his word when he discussed the possibility of a buyout in Forbes’ December issue as mentioned in the above source article.
He didn’t want to get “absorbed into a behemoth of another company and raided for talent and traffic.” But he »
‘photos every day’
this is a spot by tbwa/chiat/day for apple, called ‘photos every day’. the craft is fantastic, and there’s some subtle, unusual attention to detail in it.
let’s take a look at the sound mix. here’s a waveform of the spot:
and now here’s the waveform of a conventionally mixed spot — this is that ‘old spice’ commercial everyone flipped out for a couple years ago. it might as well be any ad you see on tv today.
huge difference. there’s incredible restraint in the amount of compression applied to the music in ‘photos every day’. (from wikipedia, compression “reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds by narrowing or “compressing” an audio signal’s dynamic range”.) my point here is that if you caught this on tv, it would be substantially ‘quieter’ sounding »
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Well there is a new best Arrested Development website of all time (via Recurring Developments)
wow, that is comprehensive.
Evets Kainzow, you’re too clever!
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