in other future home news, this.
(Source: illude)
21st October 2011
Reblogged From fireinmyspine
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Ghosts With Shit Jobs (Trailer)
Satirical, tongue-in-cheek lo-fi mockumentary set in the future, where the West collapses and becomes owned by the East.
In 2038, jobs still suck — but in whole new ways. The economic collapse of the west is complete and North Americans are a cheap labour pool for wealthy Asian and Indian markets. A Chinese documentary show focuses on these unlucky enough to have been born in the slums of Toronto in a special report that translates as “Ghosts With Shit Jobs”.
Finally. The future has been taking it’s slow ass time to get here.
So I know that the idea of everything-is-a-screen is old news, but what I’m excited to see is the interface they built. I love the signing in by putting my phone down (and not pushing phone buttons to activate), gestures like ‘sweeping’ away articles and ‘turning’ articles to share. Can’t wait to design interactions that happen everywhere in our environment. Like, why am I sitting at a desk to write this?
Also NYT has an R&D Lab?! Jealous.
article found via @Esquiremag, @theatlanticwire
damn you iphone
The 8pen – interesting concept reinventing the keyboard for touch-enabled devices
I’m collecting pieces of my future home. Here I present, the nap corner.
(via thedaintysquid, lumos-maxima)
- Camera: Canon EOS 30D
- Aperture: f/4
- Exposure: 1/80th
- Focal Length: 15mm
azspot: William Gibson says the future is right here, right now
“In the 1960s I think that in some sense the present was actually about three or four years long,” he said, “because in three or four years relatively little would change.”
That stood in sharp contrast to late 2010, he said,…
Oh heather and her amazing finds. :)
“Parallel chapter unlocked” a-mazing. Can you imagine this interaction paired up with a book like House of Leaves? My brain could hardly handle the experience of that book as it is.
these are the types of concept videos i get very excited about.
(Source: heathermm)
Video content is set to take over the internet by 2014, with net analysis firm Cisco VNI Forecast predicting big changes for the web by 2014.
From there research, there’s a few mind-blowing numbers, including that 64 exabytes per month will be processed on the web in 2014 – four times the amount which is piped through in 2010.
Cisco VNI Forecast also believe that the various forms of video the internet now carries – TV, VoD, Internet Video, and P2P – will account for 91 per cent of consumer traffic.
