l'invention creepy de la semaine...
"The dog robot sniffs your feet, generating one of four responses depending on how bad the odor. If it's particularly bad, the robot loses consciousness. If your feet smell okay, the robot will nuzzle up to you.
The female head (named "Kaori," which can translate as "aroma," "fragrance" or simply "smell") does something similar. Exhale onto its face, and it will produce an answer: "Good, like citrus," "Yuck! You have bad breath," "No way! I can't stand it!" and "Emergency taking place!" (These translations are a bit rough)."
"The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.
Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named "photo tool," a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver's license or other state-issued photo ID."
Quand la cadence électronique s'accélère, on se retrouve dans une rue au cœur d'un quartier résidentiel, avec des gens autour. On reconnait les tracés au sol de Street View qui indiquent le nom des rues. Le son nous entraîne et les images, déformées et saccadées, nous promènent un peu partout dans le monde.
"The $150 BACtrack Mobile Breathalyzer connects to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and lets you measure your blood alcohol content. But like all good gadgets, it takes things a step further by letting you see other drunkards around you on a map (said drunkards must also be using the BACtrack) and share your drunkenness with friends, family or the general public. In a world where everything has to be social, why shouldn't your blood alcohol content be as well?"
"Lancé au mois de mars par le Centre audiovisuel Bophana, ce webdocumentaire vise à présenter sous un nouvel angle l'indicateur de pauvreté de "1 dollar par jour". Il s'agit de donner la parole sur ce sujet à ceux qui vivent dans le monde en développement, comme l'explique Damien Sueur, le directeur de production.
Le projet invite les réalisateurs en herbe et étudiants des pays en développement à proposer leurs portraits vidéo."