Universal translators are something of a holy grail in mobile tech trends--and Microsoft's just revealed its latest effort at its own TechFest show. It's real-time. And it uses your own voice and face. READ MORE›
Today Google is paying homage to a ubiquitous but little-known creator in pop culture history: Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby. That talking slab of green goo with the asymmetrical head, who first appeared on TV in 1955, has become ...READ MORE›
Today Adobe is launching a public preview of Edge, its tool for web designers that allows moving, interactive graphics on a website using HTML5, not Flash. Adobe tells Fast Company why it's the tip of the iceberg.READ MORE›
A world without voicemail would be a wonderful world indeed. But that's not going to happen -- and even if it did, we'd lose small pleasures like "Animation Hotline," in which Dustin Grella takes one voicemail each day and turns it ...READ MORE›
What says “it’s the end of the day” better than a mind-blowing animated video set to heavy metal? Maybe two such videos.
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[Workplace warning: You may want to don some headphones for these.]
So here you ...READ MORE›
Charles Eames is one of the rare people I can cite as a hero in all three of my careers as a science writer, design blogger, and filmmaker. His classic short film "Powers of Ten: A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the ...READ MORE›
Today you might say that all roads lead to China. The country’s a manufacturing powerhouse, producing everything from agricultural fertilizers to iPhones. (Its economy recently overtook Japan as the No. 2 slot after the U.S.) And ...READ MORE›
Apple has filed a number of stunningly promising patents this week--here's a peek at the sweet new features that'll make your current device look lame. READ MORE›
A team of animators has hacked Microsoft's Kinect sensor suite to create a motion-replication system that powers CGI characters. Remember Gollum in Lord of The Rings? Yup--kinda like that. (But way cheaper.)READ MORE›
This video shows an unscientific but intriguing battle between Adobe Flash and HTML5 on mobile devices. For all the talk about HTML5 being the savior of Web video, you might expect it to not get trounced so thoroughly.READ MORE›
Almost 14 billion years ago came the Big Bang and then life on earth -- prokaryotes and the like -- and somehow, we managed to climb out of the primordial soup and evolve to such a degree that a human could summarize billions of years ...READ MORE›
"There is this insatiable appetite to invent cool and interesting ways of storytelling," says Ed Leonard, CTO of DreamWorks Animation. But the technology behind these new forms of storytelling is evolving more rapidly than the audiences.READ MORE›
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