So, what’s the world been up to the last week or so? Well, quite a bit actually. And from the looks of things we can safely feel unsafe about how the robots seem to be slowly gaining ground. There’s an emotion-reading robot in the works, the Robot Film Festival hits NYC this weekend, robots are sweating, drawing, and touring with Bjork . But it’s not all robots, the week also saw Animal Collective psych out Brooklyn, tattoos get animated, and pop get hypnagogic. As well as…· Jean-Luc Godard proclaims film is dead. Long live… games?· Facial puppetry: Prank video calling could become reality with real-time generic face tracking providing avatars to hide behind.· First they came for our manufacturing industries, then they came for our domestic chores, now robots are after our emotions.· You might think that new coat you bought is pretty fly, but it’s not a Monty Burns LED video coat, is it?· You can finally turn your iPad into a retro arcade machine.· Wearable tech gets personal: Tanya Marie Vlach is on Kickstarter looking for funding to grow a new eye.· Watch 60 minute documentary Cyperpunk which features an interview with the man who coined the term, William Gibson.· Insane Clown Posse miracle of the week: Magnetic Drawing Machines.
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