Stephen Black

Email is actually a tremendous, decentralized, open platform on which new, innovative things can and have been built. In that way, email represents a different model from the closed ecosystems we see proliferating across our computers and devices.

“Gould looked like a bum and lived like a bum,” Mitchell wrote. “He wore castoff clothes, and he slept in flophouses or in the cheapest rooms in cheap hotels. Sometimes he slept in doorways. He spent most of his time hanging out in diners and cafeterias and barrooms in the Village or wandering around the streets or looking up friends and... See more

The fake nose of astronomer Tycho Brahe that he wore after losing his real one in a duel about math with his cousin

The CMU device is a phased array of 64 tiny transducers. The flat, half-moon-shaped array is attached to the bottom of VR goggles so it rests just above the mouth.

The haptic effects consist of point impulses, swipes and persistent vibrations targeted on the mouth and synchronized with visual images. A variety of effects were evaluated using 16... See more

Ghosts are sometimes covered in sheets because so many of them died while changing duvet covers. People should be warned of the dangers.

Shockingly, in 2020, I was invited to speak at MIT. Bubiko, at that time, was a raggedy paper doll that I moved around with wire. She symbolized the potential of AR, Augmented Reality. My partner and I were very very poor, with plenty of hope and uncertainty. Investors call a billion dollar company a unicorn. For my talk, I decided upon the title

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