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Mobile Devices, Technophobia and the Zombie Apocalypse

“We are losing our social skills due to social media!” “Our cell phones are robbing us of our  humanity!!” “Our screens have become prisons for our minds!!!” Does any of that sound familiar? Or what about cartoons like this? There is this notion, regurgitated with growing frequency, that our technology is turning us into isolated zombies who lack social skills. This technophobic notion is eerily…

Smartphone Vision Enhancement Tech

I’ve noticed a growing number of vision enhancement tech offerings in the last few months, specifically those that augment existing smartphones. Like drones and VR, this tech is still in the primordial phase, but there are some really cool gadgets out already. Below are some of the coolest examples I’ve seen thus far.   The Snooperscope delivers to your smartphone one of the earliest forms of…

Infographics!: The Evolutionary Tree Of Religion

This is another one of those infographics that could send me tumbling down an endless googling rabbit hole. It’s fascinating that the primordial elder god of all religions is Animism, and yet it makes a lot of sense. There are numerous other fascinating insights here as well, such as the fact that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are all descendants of something called “Arabian Pantheism”.  

Mindfulness/Meditation Apps: My Top 3

In a world where every glance at our electronic devices can send us into an inescapable endorphin loop of newsfeed scrolling, where every new Netflix series must be binged to completion the week it comes out, and where every online advertisement is memetically engineered to target our individual brainstems, we need a reliable way to snap ourselves out of the trance and take a fresh look around.…

Secrets Of Japanese Horror

I stumbled across the awesome video below, which got me thinking. I’ve seen all sorts of horror films, the campy ones, the serious ones, the slashers, the ghost flicks, supernatural horror, biblical horror, space horror, body horror, the list goes on. At this point not much scares me, but to this day, the scariest films I’ve ever seen are Japanese. My first introduction to J-Horror was actually…

Theo Jansen’s Living Sculptures

The work of Theo Jansen is at an interesting crossroads of art and science. The mechanical ingenuity required to create his works is truly dumbfounding, and the end results are breathtaking, literally breathtaking. No really, Theo Jansen creates art that actually breathes, drinks, walks, and steers clear of danger. His work even “evolves” in a very real sense, continuously giving rise to…

No Man’s Sky & The Power Of Procedural Generation

We are mere days away from the release of No Man’s Sky, one of the most anticipated games of the year. It is a supermassive space exploration game that might also be one of  the most ambitious game worlds ever created. When I say massive, I mean truly, unimaginably massive. According to the developer there are roughly 18 quintillion individual planetsto explore. For perspective, if you were to…