New polymer to give robots sensitive skin

From Technology Review:

The UK company Peratech, which last month signed a deal to develop novel pressure-sensing technology for screen maker Nissha, has announced that it…

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(photo credit: Suzannah B. Troy)

Brilliant sign hack up in NYC. More details from the NYPost:

TrustoCorp, a group of self-proclaimed urban artists, is adorning city poles…

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Lepht Anonym – Scrapheap Transhumanist

h+ has a great piece written by a genuine Grinder:

I’ve made scalpel incisions in my hands, pushed five-millimeter diameter needles through my skin, and once used a vegetable knife…

Lepht Anonym – Scrapheap Transhumanist

Bruce Sterling defines Atemporality at Transmediale

Previously on Grinding I posted a video of Bruce talking about Gothic High-Tech and Favella Chic in his Reboot 11 closing speech. In it, he mentions he was trying to make concrete his notion…

Bruce Sterling defines Atemporality at Transmediale

The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may…

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop

Teleportation of energy theoretically possible

If reality was a science-fiction novel, the prologue for the one starting today would include this text:

Masahiro Hotta at Tohoku University in Japan has come up with a much more…

Teleportation of energy theoretically possible

Vincenzo Natali’s “Splice”

Criminally under-appreciated Canadian director Vincenzo Natali (Cube) is making a welcome return to the big screen, with Splice.

This clip seems to be the online footage at the moment.

Vincenzo Natali’s “Splice”

Spike Jonze’s “I’m Here”

An indie short film starring robots and funded by a vodka company? The future-present hasn’t gotten weird enough for me yet. (Please, give Chris Cunningham some of that money too!)

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Spike Jonze’s “I’m Here”