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Category: play

ideas/play/technology

Like “Rock Band” for the “Dog Whisperer” set.

August 1, 2010

A video game that captures not just your movements but also those of your dog. Fun for the whole family. Come on, Kinect developers, let’s see what you...

ideas/people/play/technology

The “got it” rule for passing and AI chess.

July 18, 2010

My friend Matisse E. taught me a great trick: when you’re carrying something heavy and you are going to hand it over to someone else, you don’t let ...

ideas/people/play/things/work

Role playing.

July 3, 2010

In a few years, if technology and media companies continue to innovate at their current breakneck pace, entertainment will finally be as interactive as it was i...

ideas/play/work

possible alternative reality games involving celebrities

July 3, 2010

you, the protagonist, are accidentally emailed the login / confirmation email intended for someone who is quite famous. you become his/her doppelganger. it̵...

ideas/people/play

The packing and unpacking game. Shakespeare, the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Communion.

June 26, 2010

I recently had to carry a few more things than I thought I could from one room to another. I stopped for a moment to think about it and devised a way to pack th...

ideas/people/play/work

Playing fetch.

May 30, 2010

One of our dogs loves to play fetch. The more the object he is fetching behaves like prey (a bouncing ball can change its trajectory in unexpected ways), the mo...

ideas/play/power

Does politics need to be entertaining? Yes.

November 13, 2009

Writing about Sarah Palin and more recently enjoying parodies of Glenn Beck I’ve been thinking on and off about political theater. Or rather, how difficul...

ideas/play

It’s the scripts, stupid.

August 29, 2009

There’s a presentation making the rounds lately that pokes fun at companies hoping to “capture the magic” of the Apple iPhone by making device...

ideas/movies & television/play

who do you know?

May 29, 2009

Jonathan Haidt: “Our minds were not designed by evolution to discover the truth; they were designed to play social games.” From the same op-ed, Nicholas D. Kris...

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