The Power of Babble

Rapha rides for Japan, Maeda on craft, dry-transfer Field Notes and more in this week's online snapshot

Deb Roy of MIT, has been videotaping the last three years of his son’s life. In an effort to better understand how humans learn language and how to improve the ways we can teach it to machines, Roy has logged over 120,000 hours of footage from cameras placed all over his home. Wired talked to Roy about how the project has helped learning about speech …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Rapha rides for Japan, Maeda on craft, dry-transfer Field Notes and more in this week's online snapshot

1. Vinyl Factory Celebrating “the tangible and the rare in an age of rapid digital consumption,” the label The Vinyl Factory has popped up at London’s St. Martin’s Lane Hotel with a shop showcasing their extensive assortment of records and limited-edition box sets—from Bryan Ferry’s Kate moss-graced albums to prints of Grace Jones by Chris Levine. The temporary store will be in the hotel’s Front …

Any Color You Like (Pyramid IV)

Rapha rides for Japan, Maeda on craft, dry-transfer Field Notes and more in this week's online snapshot

Multidisciplinary artist Dev Harlan combines a foam and plaster sculpture with 3D video-mapping to fully-engaging psychedelic effect.