Student tech project by Andreas Refsgaard is a musical interface which uses gaze and facial recognition input to make music:
Eye Conductor is a musical interface that allows people with physical disabilities to play music through eye movements and facial gestures. Using a $99 eye tracker and a regular webcam, Eye Conductor detects the gaze and selected facial movements, thereby enabling people to play any instrument, build beats, sequence melodies or trigger musical effects. The system is open, designed for inclusion and can be customised to fit the physical abilities of whoever is using it.
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i tried to make a horror comic once at like 4 am
Sony Walkman TPS-L2, portable stereo cassette player, 1979. Japan. Source 1 + 2
Daily U.S. Snow Depth 1950-2015
Germany had so much renewable energy on May 8, 2016, that it had to pay citizens to use electricity. It was so windy and sunny that turbines and solar power sources were supercharged, output exceeded demand, and prices went negative, so customers were actually paid to consume energy. Source
Rent A Goat is one of many landscaping companies that uses goats instead of machinery or pesticides to get rid of invasive plant growth. Source
Șorici a la Colorado, a Boulder take on a Romanian classic (pig skin rinds). Yum!
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Belfast Zoo keepers are hearing the ‘pitter patter’ of tiny webbed Capybara feet as the parents, Charlie and Lola, welcomed four pups on May 10. Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) are the largest rodent species in the world. These rodents are found in South America and are semi-aquatic mammals. They have webbed feet and can stay underwater for up to five minutes, which allows them to hide from predators. In fact, their scientific name even means ‘water hog’… (Learn more here.)
Oklahoma City Tornado, 1898
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Fundatura Ponorului, Hunedoara County, Romania
photograph by Cosmin Berghean
Red InkStone or (Rouge InkStone / 脂砚斋) is the pseudonym of an early, mysterious commentator of the 21st-century narrative, "Life." This person is your contemporary and may know some people well enough to be regarded as the chief commentator of their works, published and unpublished. Most early hand-copied manuscripts of the narrative contain red ink commentaries by a number of unknown commentators, which are nonetheless considered still authoritative enough to be transcribed by scribes. Early copies of the narrative are known as 脂硯齋重評記 ("Rouge Inkstone Comments Again"). These versions are known as 脂本, or "Rouge Versions", in Chinese.
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