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"An unprecedented combination of computer history and striking images, Core Memory, A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers reveals modern technology’s evolution through the world’s most renowned computer collection, the Computer History Museum in the Silicon Valley.” Visit photographer Mark Richard’s website to learn more and to buy the book. (via laughingsquid)

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Jonathan Harris is one of my favorite artists. His latest project to launch is The Whale Hunt, in which he shares his visual experience - literally, the sequential view through his eyes. “Last May I spent ten days with a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, during their annual spring whale hunt. I documented the entire experience with a plodding sequence of 3,214 photographs, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven days later. The photographs were taken at five-minute intervals, even while sleeping (using a chronometer), establishing a constant ‘photographic heartbeat’. In moments of high adrenaline, this photographic heartbeat would quicken (to a maximum rate of 37 pictures in five minutes while the first whale was being cut up), mimicking the changing pace of my own heartbeat.”

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The T-Phone is a concept phone by designer Jeong-Kyun Nam. It features “a standard numeric keypad and one large call button underneath. You get a bunch of RFID tagged badges to program someone’s number and even insert their picture. When grammy wants to call someone, all she has to do is place the badge on the call button and press it. The phone reads the RFID information in the badge and dials the number.” The phone would be helpful to seniors who don’t want to remember nine digits, but I can see it working well with children too, and for those experiencing memory loss from our growing dependence on digital devices.

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