Life, on Mars

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This week marks the one-year anniversary of NASA’s successful mission to Mars. Curiosity, the rover roaming the red planet, gained definitive success for the space program with its discovery of clay, which suggests Mars may have been hospitable to life at one point. The rover’s biggest opportunity is yet to come. Traveling at 100 yards per day, Curiosity is approaching Mount Sharp, an 18,000 foot …

Bathtub Touchscreen

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Developers at Tokyo’s Koike Laboratory have managed to transform the surface of water in a bathtub into an “immersive” touchscreen. Utilizing a Kinect camera mounted above the tub, a projector, some waterproof speakers and a PC, these developers turned the water into an Aquatop. With Aquatop, you can play games against your rubber ducky with haptic feedback provided by the underwater speakers. Watch their video …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Coffee as Viagra, car crushing, Tokyo in high-def and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Gary Card’s Abandoned Amusement Park Renowned set designer Gary Card has created larger-than-life, fantastical works for everyone from Lady Gaga and the New York Times’ T Magazine, to the London concept store LN-CC. In his first solo exhibition, “Abandoned Amusement Park Attraction,” Card pushes the cuddly against the sinister at the Eternal Youth Gallery in East London, which is housing colorless, distorted cartoon forms …