genoTyp
genoTyp is an experiment regarding fonts under
genetic aspects. Their characteristics are encoded in
hereditary information.
Different fonts can be mixed as desired and their
genomes can be manipulated. New fonts are
generated according to genetic rules.
(genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control
Japanese man marries anime video game character - No, this is not from The Onion, it’s for real. This guy, who goes by the handle Sal9000, live-streamed his marriage ceremony over the Internet to a character in the video game “Love Plus,” which is a Japanese dating simulation for the Nintendo DS. Kotaku describes the game thusly:
Want to touch her on her forehead, cheeks, arms, etc. via the touch pad? You can email her, call her via the DS mic and study together.
Players can set how they want their girlfriend to address them, and over time, she modifies to match the players’ likes and dislikes. The way she speaks will even change slowly over the course of the game.
BoingBoing also managed to get an e-mail from Sal9000, who admitted he hadn’t told his parents yet about the wedding. And apparently had “dated” other video game characters before.
Japan, you’re officially creeping me out again.
Organovo Has Its First Commercial 3D Bioprinter
- Need a new kidney? We’ll just take some of your blood and in about six weeks grow you a new one. That’s the promise of 3D bioprinting and one of the companies on the forefront of the technology just took a step closer to make it a reality. Organovo developed a research prototype of a bioprinter capable of producing very basic tissues like blood vessels. According to the recent press release, Invetech, Organovo’s strategic partner, will be providing the company with commercial versions of their device in 2010 to 2011. While it is still limited to simple tissue structures (full organs are a long ways off), Organovo plans to deliver the printers to various research institutions interested in organ and tissue production. Working with these institutions, Organovo hopes to one day progress to creating a system that can print organs as easily as other 3D printers print plastic figurines.
The Illustrated Man: How LED Tattoos Could Make Your Skin a Screen
The title character of Ray Bradbury’s book The Illustrated Man is covered with moving, shifting tattoos. If you look at them, they will tell you a story.
New LED tattoos from the University of Pennsylvania could make the Illustrated Man real (minus the creepy stories, of course). Researchers there are developing silicon-and-silk implantable devices which sit under the skin like a tattoo. Already implanted into mice, these tattoos could carry LEDs, turning your skin into a screen.
The silk substrate onto which the chips are mounted eventually dissolves away inside the body, leaving just the electronics behind. The silicon chips are around the length of a small grain of rice — about 1 millimeter, and just 250 nanometers thick. The sheet of silk will keep them in place, molding to the shape of the skin when saline solution is added.
Seen at Wired
Autonomous Cars Will Make Us Safer
Automakers have since 1939 been promising us autonomous cars that would take driving out of our hands and make traffic accidents a thing of the past. Seventy years later, we’re still waiting.
General Motors first offered this tantalizing glimpse of the future at the 1939 World’s Fair, where its Futurama exhibit boldly predicted we’d be zipping along at 100 mph under automatic control by 1960. No longer would cars be subject to the control of humans; our roads would become the carefree domain of machines smarter than the people in them.
“These cars of 1960 and the highways on which they drive will have in them devices which will correct the faults of human beings as drivers,” Futurama creator Norman Bel Geddes explained in his book, Magic Motorways. “They will prevent the driver from committing errors. They will prevent his turning out into traffic except when he should. ”
Seen at Wired
Agnus Wilson, 1957
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