1. Hello! Selfie Miami Like a real-life Tumblr page, artist, author and feminist Kate Durbin created “Hello!Selfie Miami,” a performance piece that occurred last week during Miami Art Week. The response to a man’s attack on Durbin’s piece about teen girls’s selfies manifested in a bunch of young women—dressed as mermaids and covered in Hello Kitty stickers—taking selfies for hours on end, with no interaction …
A new web application, called OldWeb Today, allows users to travel back in internet time and surf the web through old-school browser frames. Click into Yahoo’s 1996 homepage using Netscape or peruse Google search results using a 1999 version of Internet Explorer. The time-traveling tool is a study not only on iconography and design, but in user experience too. Head to Rhizome to learn more …
Winner of the 2015 iF Design Award, the Neo smartpen N2 is an intuitive pen that can convert ink-drawn notes, sketches and scribbles into digital memories. The pen tracks movement and pressure as you write on paper, quietly storing data in its internal memory to be uploaded and synced to other apps later. It also records and replays voice notes in case of an inconvenient …