Purdue Professor Embeds Hyperlinks In Printed Books
People who prefer print books over e-books may still want extra digital material to go with them. That’s the idea behind Sorin Matei’s project, Ubimark, which embeds books with two-dimensional codes that work as hyperlinks when photographed.
A video of the pilot book, Around the World in 80 [...]
Ben O’Steen shares his fascination with what happens to information and content as we move it from the digital world to the physical and back again.
Naturally, this derailed my entire morning.
Running Cory Doctorow’s Makers through Tom Taylor’s Microprinter:
Using the microprinter and the Guardian’s data on MP expenses to print out all the MP’s receipts, with [...]
Slow motion video of the Apollo 11 Saturn V launch, via Daring Fireball.
…it would look exactly like this:
Pixels, by Patrick Jean
(Via snipe.)
If you design software, you may want this iPad sketch tablet from PixelPads:
At the heart of PixelPads is the 10-pixel grid which allows you to sketch detailed, pixel-perfect interfaces; yet it’s also light and unobtrusive enough that free-spirit designers and developers can freely color outside the lines for more organic interfaces.
On [...]
I have no use for these. And yet, I want one.
(Via Ceredwyn.)
Superbrothers:
Go right from the inspiration — the vision — to actually making it. Don’t think it through. Don’t talk about it. Don’t plan it. Dive in and start making it happen. If you do that — if you can start rocking — you’ll get some momentum, and when you have some momentum then [...]
Brian Suda:
His concept of the PaperNet struck such a cord with me, I have attempted many of my own PaperNet browser creations – some bearing more fruit than others. I have even given a few presentations about my adaptation of Aaron’s original idea. Everyone seems to look at it and say “Yes, that [...]