thisistheverge: Watch ‘Murmur’ project a human voice onto a beautiful digital canvas A new project combining the collective talents of four French design studios literally allows you to see sound in a whole different light. Murmur is a device that allows passers-by to interact with an LED light wall, turning their voice into visible sound waves. Building a “luminous bridge between the physical and virtual worlds,” it transfers sound waves towards the wall using an LED strip, displaying the movement of each spoken word. 
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Watch ‘Murmur’ project a human voice onto a beautiful digital canvas

A new project combining the collective talents of four French design studios literally allows you to see sound in a whole different light. Murmur is a device that allows passers-by to interact with an LED light wall, turning their voice into visible sound waves. Building a “luminous bridge between the physical and virtual worlds,” it transfers sound waves towards the wall using an LED strip, displaying the movement of each spoken word. 

thisistheverge: 3D-printed gun files pulled offline at State Department’s request The Liberator pistol, first revealed barely a week ago, has caught the eye of federal authorities. Cody Wilson, head of gun-printing group Defense Distributed, says he received a letter from the US State Department, asking him to remove files for the Liberator and other gun parts from the site and officially apply for a ruling on whether he can distribute them.
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3D-printed gun files pulled offline at State Department’s request

The Liberator pistol, first revealed barely a week ago, has caught the eye of federal authorities. Cody Wilson, head of gun-printing group Defense Distributed, says he received a letter from the US State Department, asking him to remove files for the Liberator and other gun parts from the site and officially apply for a ruling on whether he can distribute them.

The Boston bombings, shootings, car chase, and manhunt found the ecosystem of information in a strange and unstable state: Twitter on the rise, cable TV in disarray, Internet vigilantes bleeding into the FBI’s staggeringly complex (and triumphant) crash program of forensic video analysis. If there ever was a dividing line between cyberspace and what we used to call the “real world,” it vanished last week.
James Gleick on The Boston Manhunt and the Limited Wisdom of Crowd-Sourcing — New York Magazine (via thisistheverge)

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