(N.Morgan) Imagine if you could paint a picture with lights. You could create anything, just by a press of a few buttons. It is now a reality, creating light sculptures via a robot, by Everyware. This robot named Luxo spins and waves a single arm to paint 3-D light paintings that resemble streaks from fireworks! An odd machine, animated by custom software created by Everyware designers Hyunwoo Bang and Yunsil Heo.
The two designers created Luxo to move based on a pre-choreographed path. On the tip of the robot’s arm is a true color LED. As the device begins to dance and the LED blinks and changes color, a camera captures the movement. It’s the digital, invisible equivalent of a painter wielding a paintbrush to a canvas. “For us, we’re more interested in how the photos leave traces on the imagined surface,” the designers explain. “We tried to show the beauty of photography through an autopsy of it.”
Watching Luxo move is mesmerizing. Though it’s clearly a robot, its movements are similar to the fluid motion of a living organism. Band and Heo say this is a result of using natural materials like rosewood. “Unlike steel structures, wooden frames and joints are a little bit loose and even change their forms by room temperature and humidity,” he says. “They’re like living creatures.”
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He offers me a cup of coffee and when I accept he heads into the kitchen to make it, filling a kettle with water, putting a teaspoon of instant coffee into a cup, and then moments later, pouring the unboiled water on top of it. He stirs the undissolving lumps and I wonder whether to say anything but instead let him add almond milk – not eating diary is just one of his multiple dietary rules – and politely say thank you as he hands it to me. It is, by quite some way, the worst cup of coffee I have ever tasted.
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He offers me a cup of coffee and when I accept he heads into the kitchen to make it, filling a kettle with water, putting a teaspoon of instant coffee into a cup, and then moments later, pouring the unboiled water on top of it. He stirs the undissolving lumps and I wonder whether to say anything but instead let him add almond milk – not eating diary is just one of his multiple dietary rules – and politely say thank you as he hands it to me. It is, by quite some way, the worst cup of coffee I have ever tasted.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/robots-google-ray-kurzweil-terminator-singularity-artificial-intelligence
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Drink/eat it cold, less heat, less decay…
Lesson learnt, ay ^longevity reasoning…
Anyways eat some fish, keep warm when its cold
make sure its northern {antifreeze} fish mind you,
balance.
The singularity in its verbal calculus is actually quite universal, like most words, one seems to make up….