Fresh Frames for Google Glass

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Google’s Glass project has seemingly received as much criticism about the sartorial merits (or demerits) of its groundbreaking piece of wearable tech as they have about the actual technology. This week marked the unveiling of four new frame styles for Glass, with the optional addition of prescription lenses. This marks the next step in mass-producing Glass and points to the future of how this technology …

A Documentation of Slow Blindness

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Writer and theologian John Hull lost light sensation in 1983 after years of slow, deteriorating vision. From that moment on, Hull kept a beautiful, deeply thoughtful and captivating audio cassette diary which the New York Times has turned into the narration of a short documentary film, “Notes on Blindess: Rainfall.” Having just screened at Sundance, the entire project is currently being developed into a feature …

The Time Warp Photographer

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Berlin-based, Hungarian-born Adam Magyar isn’t your usual photographer; he travels around the world with his industrial camera which has custom add-ons, like a scanner. His prototype shoots at 56 times the normal speed; 12 seconds of blurred motion can transform into 12 minutes of extremely slow motion. Time slows down to a halt at a subway station during rush hour, allowing the rare opportunity to …