Happy new year! We announced some big news this week: The Creators Project is teaming up with Björk for her New York tour dates and a series of workshops. We also introduced new Creator Pantha du Prince, who makes music from desks and fan heaters. We found out about the potential of creating self-repairing shoes out of “living materials,” along with how you can build a robot friend and turn your street into a planet.Meanwhile, elsewhere on the web…· Masking reality: Physicists working for the Pentagon have worked out how to hide events by bending light.· Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired, writes how the new Tintin movie is moving beyond uncanny valley and on to the plains of the hyperreal.· We’ve seen vintage computers play “House of the Rising Sun,” here’s some floppy disk drives playing Daft Punk’s “Derezzed.”· If you want to know some of the reasoning behind BERG’s upcoming Little Printer product, you could do worse than read this recent blog post about a talk Matt Jones gave on the near future of connected products.· Stereoscopy + projection mapping = impressive melting visual awesomeness.
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