How Metadata Can Reveal What Your Job Is
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Category Archives: MIT Media Lab
Skin Bling: Wearable Electronics from Golden Temporary Tattoos
MIT Media Lab and Microsoft have teamed up to take wearable devices one step further — they’ve glued the devices directly to the user’s skin. DuoSkin is a temporary tattoo created with gold leaf. Metallic “Flash” temporary fashion tattoos have become quite popular recently, so this builds on the trend. What the team has done is to use them to create user interfaces for wearable electronic devices.
Generally speaking, gold leaf is incredibly fragile. In this process to yield the cleanest looking leaf the gold is not actually cut. Instead, the temporary tattoo film and backer are cut on a …read more
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This Pretty Temporary Tattoo Lets You Remotely Control Your Devices
This is some of the prettiest and easiest biohacking we’ve seen yet. Continue reading This Pretty Temporary Tattoo Lets You Remotely Control Your Devices
Richard Stallman Braved a Winter Storm Last Night to March Against DRM
As representatives of Comcast, Netflix and Microsoft meet to discuss the future of the web, an angry crowd is forming outside. Continue reading Richard Stallman Braved a Winter Storm Last Night to March Against DRM