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Amazingly Creative Food Art 1
Oversized Objects & Furnitures by Lilian Bourgeat 13
Increible Pintura Contemporanea por ChristineKrainock
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Scrumptious Art by Hong Yi 24
Unbelievable Metal Sculptures by David Kracov 41
Living with Google Glass: what are they actually like towear?
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Samsung Galaxy S4 laps HTC One in sales 61
Amazon enters tech’s architecture wars with ‘plant-rich’building
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Elecom’s Retractable Wireless Keyboard 67
Spruce Up Your Macbook Pro With These WoodenKeys
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Amazingly Creative Food Art
May 30, 2013
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Oversized Objects & Furnitures by Lilian Bourgeat
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Increible Pintura Contemporanea por Christine Krainock
May 29, 2013
Christine pinta cuadros al oleo y al acrilico. Su arte es moderno yabstracto. Se especializa en texturas de flores, arboles y paisages,utilizando colores metalicos.
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Scrumptious Art by Hong Yi
May 29, 2013
Hong Yi’s previous work was a portrait made up of socks hanging from bamboo poles as well as a coffee cup-stained canvas portrait. She calls her latest body of work ‘creativity with food’. According to her, the series has helped her push the limits of her creativity by forcing her to churn out new designs every day. It has taught her to
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not be too serious about what she does, but also to pay attention todetail and to work within the confines of a very small area. “I keep asketchbook with me where I jot down every idea that comes tomind. I shoot all photos with natural lighting, around 4-5PM whenthe light’s really nice and soft…this means I need to have my ideaready by around 3PM, so I’m usually rushing up on work like a madwoman in the afternoon.” Hong Yi admitted.
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Unbelievable Metal Sculptures by David Kracov
May 29, 2013
It is rare for an artist to create a work of art that stirs so many emotions, leaving the viewer speechless. David Kracov has accomplished exactly this on more than one occasion. One of David’s greatest passions is to create sculptures that cause deep memories to surface and heartfelt emotions to stir. These creations may seem far from the wit and colorful linguistics for which he is known, but for David, each one is a personal opus to how life affects
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Living with Google Glass: what are they actually like towear?
May 28, 2013
I have spent the past few weeks lowering my expectations forGoogle Glass. When I put on Google’s smart glasses a year ago –Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, let the press try on his pair at thecompany’s developer conference – I found it exhilarating. But manyof my tech-journalist colleagues have panned the device recently,calling it disorienting, buggy, and hobbled by terrible battery life.Google, too, has worked to lower the bar.
The company describes Glass as an early beta product – it has thusfar sent out units to hundreds of people who ponied up $1,500(£992) for an early device – and it says that today’s model needslots of work before it becomes a mass-market gadget.
So as I put on a pair this week, I was expecting to experience the digital equivalent of a machine hacked together with duct tape and construction paper. It wasn’t that! True, the unit I got my hand on at Google’s developer conference in San Francisco this week did have some obvious flaws, among them poor battery life and limited
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functionality. It also didn’t feel very comfortable on top of myprescription eyeglasses. Yet I was surprised by how quickly I fellinto using Glass – and how, within a few minutes of putting it on,this new thing began to feel like an intuitive way to experience thedigital world. After my eye got used to the screen poised at the topright corner of my peripheral vision, and after my fingers got used tothe way you control the device by sliding back and forth alongsidethe frame, Glass stopped feeling like someone’s bizarre, wishfulprediction for the future of eyewear.
Instead, the more I used Google’s goggles, the more familiar theybegan to feel. This was a gadget I’d used before. It’s a gadgetyou’ve used before. That device is called a smartphone. And whenGlass or something like it is finally released as a mainstreamproduct, you’ll use it for the same reason you use headphones –because it’s a natural extension of your phone. It’s like headphonesfor your eyes. In a good way.
My thoughts about Glass are heavily informed by Thad Starner(pictured inset), a computer-science professor at the GeorgiaInstitute of Technology who is also a technical lead on the Glassproject. Starner has been wearing various kinds of digital gogglessince the early 1990s – he built his own devices–and is thus one ofthe world’s leading authorities on what it’s like to live as a cyborg.He argues, counterintuitively, that the chief advantage of digitalgoggles is that they allow you to interact with technology in a waythat does not interfere with your real-world life.
In other words, they make smartphones less distracting than they are today. They achieve this, Starner says, because a tiny,
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voice-activated screen above your eye is much faster to access –and much less socially awkward – than a big screen you fish out ofyour pocket and hold far away from your eyes, forming a barrierbetween you and the rest of the world.
Once I put them on, I saw exactly what Starner meant. To turn onGlass, you tap the frame of your specs, or you nod your head up.When you do so, you see a big, digital clock just off to the side ofyour central field of vision, and a prompt to say “OK Glass” whenyou’re ready to ask it something. Even this main screen is useful: Idon’t wear a watch – I’ve never found them comfortable – and,when I’m not at my PC, I usually check the time on my phone. Glassoffers me a quicker, less socially awkward way to access a clock.
I know what you’re thinking: a normal person would just wear awatch. Yes, but even if you do wear a watch, there’s a good chanceyou look at your phone for dozens of other tiny bits of informationduring the day – texts, email, directions, photos, and especiallyGoogle searches. Starner calls these “microinteractions” – momentswhen you consult your phone or computer for ephemeral, importantinformation that you need immediately. Glass is built for thesemoments.
Once you say “OK Glass,” you’re presented with a menu of possiblecommands, including performing a Google search, asking fordirections, and taking a picture. You can also access Google Now –the company’s predictive personal assistant – by swiping your fingeralong the frame. This shows you contextual information that you’dusually find on your phone – the weather, sports scores, directionsto your hotel.
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It took me a minute or so to figure out how to access all thisinformation. Google has built a vocabulary of taps and swipes intothe device, and you’ve got to learn the gestures – that swipingforward and back is the equivalent of scrolling, that swiping down isa universal “back” button, and that tapping once is the equivalent ofclicking. But once I got the controls, and once I’d positioned thedevice correctly in front of my glasses, I understood exactly how touse it – it’s just like my phone, but faster. (Google is working on away to have Glass attach to prescription glasses, by the way.) Forinstance, I could see a way of using Glass when I’m cooking.Today, when I’m ready for the next step in a recipe or need to lookup, say, the internal temperature of a medium-rare steak, I have tobreak away from what I’m doing and look at a book or my iPad. WithGlass, any information I need is right there, always.
“OK, Glass,” I asked it in one of my first tests. “How many cups in aquart?” In half a second, it spat back the answer on screen and byvoice: “There are four cups in a quart.” (Glass uses a “boneconduction” speaker located right around you ear; this means thatyou can hear it while still keeping your ears free to hear the outsideworld, even though it isn’t audible to anyone else.)
When I met him, Starner told me that this is how he uses Glass – tosearch for queries that come up in social situations. At dinner withhis wife recently, the conversation turned to cats, and Starnerwondered how far they can fall without getting hurt. He asked Glass.Unlike my quarts-to-cups question, Starner’s question–like mostGoogle queries – didn’t bring up a direct answer.
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Instead, it showed him a snippet of the first link in the searchresults. You can see additional links by scrolling, but Google’ssearch is so good that you can often get enough information withoutdoing so. (Cats usually get injured on falls shorter than sevenstoreys; at greater heights they have time to right their bodies andland on their feet.)
These examples might strike you as intrusive and disruptive –exactly the sort of thing you’d feared would come of a digital deviceattached to your face. It’s true, too, that when someone is accessinginformation from Glass, their eyes shift up into the corner of theirsockets. Depending on the situation– you’re checking sports scoreswhile your friend is confiding in you about his marital troubles – thiscould be perceived as rude.
On the other hand, shifting your eyes is way less distracting thanchecking your smartphone. Indeed, after using it, I’d argue thatpretty much any time you look something up on Glass rather than aphone, you’re choosing a less intrusive way of accessing the digitalworld. If you want to rid the world of digital interruptions, you’d startby eradicating phones. And if you’ve been hoping that your friendsand family would get their heads out of their phones already, youought to be celebrating Glass.
Still, I don’t want to overpraise the device. Because it’s so new, Glass’s capabilities are still quite limited, and it’s nowhere close to serving as a replacement for a phone in most situations. This week Google announced a program for developers to add new services to Glass; among the companies pitching in are Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Evernote, and I’m hoping many more firms follow their
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Even before that happens, though, Glass is off to a great start.Once I had it on my face, I was addicted to the power it gave me,and I couldn’t stop ordering it around: “Show me pictures ofdinosaurs.” “Take a picture.” “What time is my flight?” “How long willit take me to get home?” At some point I had to take Glass off. Ireally, really didn’t want to.
AS YOU WERE
A prominent computer scienctist argues that goggle computers willinterfere less with normal life than the phone in your pocket.
A NEW VOCAB
Computer, phone and tablet users will have to get used to a newway of moving info in Glass, including swipes replacing scrolling.
IT’S LESS RUDE THAN LOOKING AT YOUR PHONE
If you want to subtly check the latest football score, you only need tomove your eyes.
MASTER THE KITCHEN
Rather than balance a tablet on a greasy counter, say “OK, Glass”and then ask how much a pound of sugar is in metric measures.
THE TIME IS NOW
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…in the corner of your eye. Nod your head up and a big digital clockappears to the side of your centre of vision.
PA MODE
By swiping your finger down the frame of the glasses, informationsuch as weather, direction and sports scores appears in the lens.
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1. Google unveils virtual reality glasses
2. Google Chairman: If You Don’t Want To Use Your Real Name,Don’t Use Google+
3. Google in privacy policy changes across its services
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Samsung Galaxy S4 laps HTC One in sales
May 27, 2013
On its way to becoming the fastest-selling Android smartphone, theGalaxy S4has been sold twice as many times as the HTC One intheir first few weeks on the market.
Samsung announced this week that it has sold 10 million Galaxy S4phones. Currently in either black or white, the phone manufacturerplans to sell the smartphone in more colors, such as blue, red,purple and brown, later this year. An HTC executive told the WallStreet Journal its device had been purchased 5 million times, butthat production remains behind schedule because of partsshortages.
The One had been expected to hit the market ahead of the Galaxy S4. Instead, the phones came out at nearly the same time because
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of delays by HTC suppliers.
The One still isn’t available for Verizon Wireless. The Galaxy S4became available for Verizon customers Thursday.
Reviewers generally credited the One with having top-of-the-linehardware and the S4 with containing innovative software features.Both companies have aggressively marketed their phones, butSamsung’s continued dominance with its Galaxy line has led toturmoil inside HTC. Multiple HTC executives recently left thecompany. And the HTC First, the phone that was used to launchFacebook’s Home feature last month, has been a flop.
Samsung also said last week it would soon sell a version of itsphone with the default Android software installed rather than aversion of Android customized by Samsung. An HTC developer saidon Twitter last week that HTC should be expected to release a Onewith an un-customized version of Android too.
Some users may delay purchases of the S4 to get the new versionor one of the other colors, but the influx of Verizon customers couldkeep sales steady.
The previous fastest-selling phone, the Galaxy S III, needed almosttwo months to reach 10 million units sold, Samsung said.
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2. Galaxy Nexus Confirmed for December Launch in U.S.
3. Samsung sues to ban iPhone 4S sales in Japan, Australia
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Amazon enters tech’s architecture wars with ‘plant-rich’building
May 27, 2013
Not one to be outdone, Amazon.com has become the latest techgiant to reveal plans for new, outlandish headquarters.
The online retailer wants to literally bring the “Amazon” to downtownSeattle with a building that features three glass-dome,greenhouse-like structures capable of housing “mature trees,”according to the plans the company filed with the city.
Amazon said it believes a park-like and plant-rich environment would provide its employees with many positives “that are not often found in a typical office setting.” You can check out images of the
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design on the city’s website.
The planned Amazon building is visually stunning, but it’s only thelatest design in a growing architectural arms race between manyrivals in the tech industry.
Apple, for example, plans on building an expansion to itsheadquarters that looks as if a UFO landed in Cupertino, Calif.Nvidia, a chip-maker, also has designs for a new complex thatwould feature two, spaceship-like triangular buildings that are meantto resemble parts used in computer graphic chips.
Google and Facebook, meanwhile, are planning on building newcomplexes complete with roof gardens and rectangular and irregularshaped buildings. Samsung, too, is jumping in on the greenmovement, with a new facility planned for San Jose that will featureoffices floors complete with open-air parks and some buildings thatwill be covered in greenery.
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2. 10 Inspired Famous Office Environments
3. Why Logo Designing is Important for Building Brand of aCompany?
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Elecom’s Retractable Wireless Keyboard
May 23, 2013
In a recent press release, Elecom announced their latest in wirelesskeyboards. This retractable wireless keyboard with built-in standcould come in handy when attempting to type for long periods oftime on your smartphone or tablet. The keyboard automaticallyturns on when opened, pairs with your device via bluetooth andretracts as outlined in the picture below.
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1. Consumer Reports: Samsung Galaxy S4 is top phone
2. Google Chromebox
3. Microsoft introduces ‘Surface‘, their uber-cool tablet
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Spruce Up Your Macbook Pro With These Wooden Keys
May 23, 2013
Want to create a unique look and feel for your Macbook Pro? Trymodding your keyboard with these Lazerwood Keys constructedfrom wood featuring an adhesive backing and laser cut symbols.They’re also available for the Apple wireless keyboard as well.
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