“The Mirror”
Author: William Orpen (Irish, 1878-1931)
Date: 1900
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: TateThe sitter in this portrait is Emily Scobel, a model from the Slade School of Art. Orpen was briefly engaged to her. The room is apparently an accurate portrayal of Orpen’s lodgings, but the shallow pictorial depth and ‘aesthetic’ arrangement of objects is based on Whistler’s famous portrait of his mother.The concave mirror on the wall reflects the artist painting at his easel. This is a device which Orpen borrowed from Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Marriage …
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Prototype Real / Digital Info Interface System
Using projection and gestures to create interactive relationship with information - video embedded below:
Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a next generation user interface which can accurately detect the users finger and what it is touching, creating an interactive touchscreen-like system, using objects in the real word.
“We think paper and many other objects could be manipulated by touching them, as with a touchscreen. This system doesn’t use any special hardware; it consists of just a device like an ordinary webcam, plus a commercial projector. Its capabilities are achieved by image processing technology.”
Using this technology, information can be imported from a document as data, by selecting the necessary parts with your finger.
More at DigInfo here
RELATED: This is very similar to a concept developed in 1991 called ‘The Digital Desk’ [link]
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Workout buddies come in all sizes.
he looks a little worried
“fuc- it’s getting faster-runrunrunrunrunshitshitshitshitshit”
[Image: A two-GIF set of a brown tabby cat running on a treadmill beside its person.]
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Memories of the Future by Carl de Smet
Belgian designer Carl de Smet of Noumenon has developed high-tech foam furniture that can be squashed to 5% of its original size for easy transportation and then expanded “like popcorn” by heating it up
movie + interview here
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