Wenn ich hier ab und zu Neuroscience bringe, dann habe ich da ungefähr einen Zeitraum von 50 Jahren im Auge. Intel sieht das ein bisschen optimistischer und will in den nächsten zehn Jahren Chips in Gehirne implantieren. Zusammen mit den neulich vorgestellten LED-Kontaktlinsen, die sie zu einer Art Sichtfeld-Monitor weiterentwickeln wollen und Augmented Reality und solchen Späßchen landen wir also, wenn’s nach Intel geht, in zehn Jahren bei Gibsons Neuromancer.
Und hoffen wir mal, die Prozedur enthält kein „Intel Inside“-Tattoo auf dem Nacken. Aber vielleicht können sie ja ihr Betreiberlogo direkt auf der Hirnrinde unterbringen, nur so ‘ne Idee.
By the year 2020, you won’t need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than their brain waves.
Scientists at Intel’s research lab in Pittsburgh are working to find ways to read and harness human brain waves so they can be used to operate computers, television sets and cell phones. The brain waves would be harnessed with Intel-developed sensors implanted in people’s brains.
Hier die Doku „Cyberpunx“ von Ende der 80er/Anfang 90er. Ich habe darüber genau nichts an Info gefunden und wollte das Teil eigentlich grade in die Links packen, da merkte ich, dass ich da schon seit 20 Minuten zusehe und das ganze doch ziemlich interessant ist. Die Doku hat Interviews mit William Gibson (logo) und Timothy Leary, dessen LSD-Perspektive auf das Genre nochmal was ganz besonderes ist.
Diese pneumatischen Cyber-LED-Flügel für Engel aus der Zukunft gibt’s schon für 1000 Dollar und sollte Kevin Smith jemals einen zweiten Teil von Dogma drehen, dann hätte ich gerne eine Alanis Morissette, deren Namen ich eben nicht nachschlagen musste, die mit solchen Cyber-Flügeln durch ein futuristisches New Jersey flattert. Und wo wir grade beim wünschen sind, würde ich Alanis gleich durch Scarlett Johansson ersetzen. Man wird ja wohl noch träumen dürfen.
A cyborg mutant roams the streets of Madrid, gynormously flashing his engorged, fluid-filled scrotum upon the mortar work of the Almudena Cathedral, giving priests the vapors and making gargoyles silently weep at the monstrosity of man.”It is a means of power,” says he.
Sam Van Olffen macht Kunst mit Steampunk, Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstellen, Cyberpunk und Gasmasken, platziert die Gebilde irgendwann im 19. Jahrhundert indem er die Dinger mit Photoshop vintaged, quasi. Wunderbar strange.
William Gibsons Roman “Quellcode” handelt von der Angst. Der Erfinder des Cyberspace über die Renaissance der Apokalypse, YouTube und die US-Vorwahlen.
Yay! Großformatige Scans eines mit Stills illustrierten Buchs über die Technologie in Akira, meinem Anime-Alltime-Favoriten.
Published in 1988 by Bandai, this is the Bible of Akira books. It’s full title is AKIRA MECHANIX 2019: Cyber Art & Mechanism From Moving Picture “Akira” and (as the title suggests) it’s about the artwork that went into making the anime.
Divided into 20 chapters, segments include:
- Photographs and vignettes used for promotion/merchandise;
- Character pages and technical model sheets of vehicles/weapons in the film;
- Illustrations/paintings by other Japanese creatives, inspired by AKIRA;
- Info on Kaneda’s Bike- mechanics, inspiration, plans, working models etc;
- Creating the Neo tokyo environment;
- Staff feedback regarding their roles in the film and their inspiration for creating Neo-Tokyo.
In John Varley’s upcoming scifi novel Rolling Thunder, everyone has a brain implant that lets them google information constantly. And many futurists are saying this technology will become a reality long before we colonize Mars. The question isn’t whether we’ll have google brain implants (or the futuristic search engine equivalent), but how we’ll handle them.
Here’s a design that Dracula would love: a subcutaneously-implanted, wireless digital tattoo display whose fuel cell is powered by blood. An entrant into the same Greener Design Competition as the gravity clock, the concept uses Bluetooth to communicate with your portable gadgets—or even devices implanted elsewhere in your body.
A locomotive “god” from the Victorian times, that was supposed to be “The Physical Saviour” of the race. Illustrated by the wicked cyberpunk creations by artists Mikolka Parovoz, Belarus and Andrey Severinko, Kiev, Ukraine.
Christopher Contes macht Cyber-Spinnen und halbe Steampunk-Skulls und sowas. Sehr sehr schick, bei Wired gibt’s eine kleine Gallerie, den heavy Shitload gibt’s aber auf der Künstlerseite.
Link zur Künstlerwebsite | Link zum Wired-Artikel (via)
The 10 Most Terrifyingly Inspirational ’80s Songs
“Don’t Stop Believing” is in many ways the ultimate Journey song, packed to the gills with the staples of ’80s rock. It includes vague references to singing in bars, drinking, cheap perfume, taking your chances, livin’ in the city, romance at midnight, a jaded city boy, a lonely small-town girl, and a mysterious train whose destination, one assumes, is rock ‘n’ roll.
Pop Gear
The year 1964 was a watershed period in British music. Before that year, British popular music was barely heard outside of the U.K. But when the Beatles achieved American success, a seemingly endless number of British bands and singers were suddenly able to crack the American market.
By the end of 1964, some enterprising filmmakers decided to create a cinematic year-in-review to highlight this new wave of British music talent. The result was “Pop Gear,” a strange but jolly little production that serves as a celluloid time capsule for that remarkable musical year.
Herzensgräber
The Smiths brachten 1983 ihr Debütalbum heraus und waren die erste Indie-Gitarrenband, die mit introspektiver Musik die Hitparaden stürmte.
Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD’s Coffin
As counterintuitive as it may seem in this age of iPods and digital downloads, vinyl — the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles — is poised to re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary.
OK Computer Hörspiel
Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ has inspired a new radio play, which is to be broadcast at 21:00 BST on Friday (October 19) on BBC Radio 4. The play, given the same name as the classic Radiohead album, features 12 parts, each inspired by a song on the album, reports Ateaseweb. It is written by Joel Horwood, Chris Perkins, Al Smith and Chris Thorpe. The play focuses on the story of a man who wakes up in a Berlin hospital suffering from amnesia, then embarks on a journey to regain his memory.
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Horror-Movies for Kids
Okay kids, sure, you can go see that horror film double playing at the local bijou. What? You’re surprised that I’m letting you go? Well, there’s something you don’t know: your father and I have made a few small changes to some of the scenes …
Reel Life: 5 Stories Hollywood Fudged in the Movies
They say art imitates life, but sometimes the facts get screwed up. And in Hollywood, truth inevitably takes a back seat to drama. Here are a few examples.
Indian Kung Fu Fight Scene
It showed me that the best way to finish a Boss off is with an upside-down, flying Three Stooges combo to the face.
The Last Supper – Now Online in Amazing Detail
An Italian technology firm, HAL9000, has created an online mega-composite of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper at an incredible 16 gigapixel resolution (about 2,000 times more detailed than a standard digital photograph). The picture above shows the hands of the person sitting next to Jesus in the Last Supper (the individual that Dan Brown claimed to be Mary Magdalene in The Da Vinci Code), at only a 6% zoom.
Steve Pykes Cyberpunks
Cyberpunks, a small subculture, influenced by the work of the author William Gibson and particularly the film Bladerunner, existed in London in the early 1990s. I became interested and photographed a series of about fifty portraits in my studio over a short period.
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Heads
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736 – 1783) was a German sculptor most famous for his ‘character heads,’ a collection of busts of faces contorted in extreme facial expressions. In 1770 Messerschmidt began to work on his so-called character heads, obviously connected with certain paranoid ideas and hallucinations from which, at the beginning of the seventies, the master began to suffer.
Allahs 99 Superhelden
Eine neue Comic-Serie verbreitet sich mit großem Erfolg in arabischen und islamischen Ländern
Lunch Atop a Skyscraper
A lego reconstruction of the famous photograph taken by Charles Ebbets
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Things I Have Failed To Masturbate To
In my long career as a masturbator (has to be about 22 plus years) I have tried with little success to find my masturbatory niche. Something that could push me ahead of the crowd, something that would really let me shine in the industry. Thus far, I am sad to report, this goal remains unfulfilled. I am still a run of the mill wanker.
Und so.
Kuka: Robot Ascetic Inscribes Bible
Kuka, what appears to be a fairly standard industrial robot, has been reprogrammed to inscribe the entire Martin Luther bible onto a endless roll of paper. It uses a calligraphic style translated by its creators RobotLab from an early font called “Schwabacher.”
Steampunk Time Machine
The Chronotheric Fluxing Capacitron is a lovely steampunk gadget that crackles with blue light, appearing to be some kind of time-travel thinggum.
Proven by Science: Playing Video Games Can Make You Smarter!
The 30 children from St Columba’s primary school – all aged nine and 10 played Dr Kawashima’s More Brain Training game on a Nintendo DS console every morning before lessons for about 15 minutes.
The “game” is a collection of mini-games, such as number challenges, reading tests, problem-solving exercises and memory puzzles designed to exercise the brain by increasing blood flow to the pre-frontal cortex. […]
The children played the game every day for 10 weeks with “dramatic” results.
Klowand reloaded – wer es pauschal mag
Jetzt brauchen wir nicht mal mehr Außenstehende, um uns in den Pauschalschmutz zu ziehen (Klowand lässt grüßen), wenn man mal nicht nach der Pfeife und Meinung einzelner tanzt. Wer wirbt ist eben Blutblogger, wer Rezensionen schreibt ist pauschal ein hirnloser Schreiber ohne Qualität und Sinnhaftigkeit.
Mir ist jede Art von Pauschalierung zu wider. Ich ertrage diesen Populismus nicht, diese überzeichnete Schwarz-Weiß-Malerei um dem eigenen Meinungsbild zu entsprechen. Differenzierung würde da ja wohl nur “schaden”. Mir geht das langsam aber sicher zu weit und verlässt längst den Boden des gegenseitig notwendigen Respekts.
Rippel: ich mag den großteil der dj´s die da vorkommen ^^ vor allem a-trak und crookers machen geniale remixes. aber das nur meine bescheidene meinung. ach ja weiß jemand aus welche song diese letzten 5 sekunden des videos kommen?
Benne: HAHA :D Lese gerade den Post hier und trage genau diese T-Shirt ganz zufällig :D
Anmerkungsmann: das ist ja nicht mehr alt, sondern schon antik ;) und erleichtert jedem hedonisten, der kein bock auf politik hat, seine einstellung zu erklären.
unwohltaeter: Hm… Fünf Tassen. Ich glaube mein Highscore, was Kaffee angeht, ist 7 Tassen. An dem Tag war ich fertig… :D
