On the blog this week we broke down the music of German artist Torky Tork for our LAYERS column, discovered a robot that can swoop and perch like a bird, found out about two bloggers who are changing China’s attitude towards media, were wowed by the interactive future of gaming, checked out the idea of a human camera, tapped our toes and joypads to Team Teamworks’ video game/hip-hop mashup, and learned of the founder of SoundCloud’s new venture where he makes music from church sounds.And from the InterWebs…· How would you build the perfect technological city? Well, maybe a bit like this one, PlanIT Valley, in Portugal which is being built with the precision of a Formula One racing car.· Augmented reality to help bring ghosts to life for visitors to the ship SS Britain.· Food for thought: Brainwave pong.· Don’t tell Hollywood, but scientists have developed an electron microscope that can produce 3-dimensional photos in real-time.· Christian Stoll’s photographic series Epic shows the futuristic hidden infrastructures that power large corporations (above). [via]@stewart23rd
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