Not necessarily the old-school ear trumpets, but mechanical filters and movable sound directing shells.
ultrasonic transducers
Convert and filter sound in an out of human hearing range
Words that last
Ancient words and a web graphic to display them.
By Wilson Andrews and David Brown at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/words-that-last/
Transcriptors
“We want to make tools to put computers inside any living cell”.
By Drew Endy
Musicmachinery
Thoughts on API’s and Max
After looking at hundreds of API’s over past months – models begin to emerge:
- Visualization: Looking at data by filtering, analysis, or factors defining movement.
- Synthesis: producing feeds from sources, in combination – fusion
- Transcoding: changing one type of signal into another
Or some combination of all three.
The best tools for getting data in and out of Max:
- curl (or variants in client libraries)
- JSON
- Osc
- string parsing outside of Max
- database tools (or data recorder in Max)
- basic data filtering and scaling tools in Max
- for complex networked systems: node.js
Italy village gets ‘sun mirror’
The computer that never crashes
By Paul Marks at The New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729045.400-the-computer-that-never-crashes.html
How Brainless Slime Molds Redefine Intelligence
An interesting experiment to try at home.
By Ferris Jabr at Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=brainless-slime-molds
