Paul Seletsky, Associate AIA, is the Senior Manager of Digital Design for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP in New York. He presides over strategic implementation of the Digital Design process, as well as research and development initiatives. He chairs the AIANY Technology Committee as curator of a monthly lecture series highlighting technology and its impact on practice, and his work and writings have fostered critical discussion and awareness in this realm. Mr. Seletsky received his degree in architecture from Cooper Union in New York, has managed Digital Design in both the public and private sectors, and lectures actively within academic and professional venues.
Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which transform the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen and a head-mounted 3-D viewer. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008. Lee became a YouTube star with his demo of Wii Remote hacks — bending the low-cost game piece to power an interactive whiteboard, a multitouch surface, a head-mounted display …Why you should listen to him:To understand Johnny Lee, just take a look at his personal Projects page. Aside from his Wii Remote hacks — voted the #1 tech demo of all time by Digg — you can see all the other places his mind has turned: typography, photography, urban renewal … to say nothing of his interesting sideline in Little Great Ideas, like the hypnotic “___ will ___ you.” read more
From good guys & bad guys to tracking and erasing.
What do you use Sellotape for? Doctors use it to detect bacteria around the perineum, and to trap head lice. In fact, one doctor used Sellotape, along with brandy, a water bottle and a coat hanger, to save the life of a woman who suffered a collapsed lung on an international flight.read more
Few things are more useful or essential than light, electromagnetic radiation that travels as a wave through space. This Cribsheet covers the basics of light: the electromagnetic spectrum, wave-particle duality, and how light interacts with matter. read more
In recent years, our daily newspapers and nightly news programs have grown more urgent in warning us about melting ice caps, stronger hurricanes and higher-than-average temperatures as a result of global warming. read more
Hailed as a possible cure for everything from Parkinson’s, paralysis and the injustice of aging, stem cells often sound like the miracle pills of the future–that is if we can ever get past the ethically divisive issues raised by their production and use.read more
A representation of a mammalian neocortical column, the basic building block of the cortex. The representation shows the complexity of this part of the brain, which has now been modeled using a supercomputer.
Credit: BBP/EPFLread more
Genetic engineering isn’t just for scientists in ivory towers or corporate R&D labs anymore. Researchers are still creating new mice and crops every week, but the tools and knowledge necessary to create organisms never before seen on Earth have pushed out to pet breeders, artists and college kids.
Now all we need to take care of is the in and digestion of food and we can start our army of “tools”. Where we make more and get paid even less. Thanks for the link John
In what sounds like a dream for millions of tired coffee drinkers, Darpa-funded scientists might have found a drug that will eliminate sleepiness. read more
What to Do When a Design Jury Attacks
by Ray Chung, Josh Comaroff, and the GSD Classes of 1999 and 2000
Note: Blowfish were first developed at the GSD by the classes of 1999 and 2000, especially Ray Chung and Josh Comaroff, as a way of making fun of the pretensions and relieving the stresses students face when they present their architecture, landscape architecture, or urban design final work to a “jury” of five to ten prestigious professionals. Thank you Tyler for the link read more
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