Leap Forward

Some pretty slick tech coming form Leap Motion that, while still a bit of a gimmick for everyday use. I can see this as a great presentation interface and with accuracy down to 0.01 mm who needs Minority Report gloves!

Did I mention it will be an open platform and cost only $70.00

The Verge

Donna Summer: 1948 – 2012

Donna Summer, the queen of disco whose career spanned four decades and earned her multiple number one hits and five Grammy awards, has died after a long battle with cancer.

She was 63.

NPR

Remembering Chuck: 1936 – 2012

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Before he became known as the Godfather of Go-Go, Brown played with local jazz and funk bands. He helped to inaugurate the genre with his own group, the Soul Searchers, whose "Bustin' Loose" topped the R&B chart in 1979.

Chuck Brown, the guitarist and singer most associated with the Washington, D.C.-based genre go-go, died yesterday in Baltimore after a long hospitalization.

NPR

Dear Photograph

I always did like the "Then and Now" concept of Dear Photograph. Now they have made it into a coffee table book. I may spring for it.

Dear Photograph

Going Offline?

Paul Miller, Senior Editor at The Verge has decided to take a one year hiatus from the internet. Here is all the news of his adventures and his weekly diary updates in one convenient place: the internet.

Can he do it?

The Verge

Adam "MCA" Yauch: 1964 - 2012

Adam "MCA" Yauch, a member of the legendary New York rap trio Beastie Boys, has died Friday afternoon.

CNN

 

Colorful Visions

The African-American experience is reflected, right now, on the walls of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Exuberant dancing in Chicago. Laundry on a line in the nation's capitol. A girl smiling out from her father's warm jacket — all captured in photographs, paintings, and sculptures from the 1920s through the 1990s.

NPR

Good stuff over at MNML Studio

Spherical-desk-lamp

Sisifo, the sleek task light/table lamp designed for Artemide by Scott Wilson, debuted recently at Frankfurt's 2012 Light+Building Show as well as at Milan's Salon de Mobil.

MNML

Discovery All Clear for Landing

The oldest Space Shuttle, Discovery, is making its final voyage from Cape Canaveral to the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. This will be its final resting place as they prepare to swap out the Enterprise concept that is currently there and send it to NYC.

Mission accomplished!

Flickr

INCREDIBOX

Drag and drop beats. A clever, creative and addictive way to kill time, but you'll be rewarded once you hear the sound coming from your speakers.

Very well done.

INCREDIBOX

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