1. 08:23 5th Mar 2008

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    reblogged from: stumblng

    stumblng: the above image is from here via this you’re seeing a Question Box it’s a telephone intercom from here: Users [in rural India] place a free call by pushing the green button. They connect to an operator sitting in front of an Internet-enabled computer.Users ask the operator questions. The operator goes online and finds their answers, translating them into the local language. The operator also sends & receives emails on the caller’s behalf.In the near future, users will be able to call the operator directly from their telephones. according to this, among the matters users ask about via the Question Box are: cricket scores; codes to download songs on their mobiles; and homework questions; sometimes, it seems, users even ask for answers to important questions being serious for a moment, the device does overcome problems of illiteracy and of lack of direct access to the Internet —— Proving once again that there are infinite ways to approach the same technology.

    stumblng:

    • the above image is from here via this
    • you’re seeing a Question Box
    • it’s a telephone intercom

    • from here:

    Users [in rural India] place a free call by pushing the green button. They connect to an operator sitting in front of an Internet-enabled computer.
    Users ask the operator questions. The operator goes online and finds their answers, translating them into the local language. The operator also sends & receives emails on the caller’s behalf.
    In the near future, users will be able to call the operator directly from their telephones.

    • according to this, among the matters users ask about via the Question Box are: cricket scores; codes to download songs on their mobiles; and homework questions; sometimes, it seems, users even ask for answers to important questions
    • being serious for a moment, the device does overcome problems of illiteracy and of lack of direct access to the Internet

    ——

    Proving once again that there are infinite ways to approach the same technology.

     

  2. 09:06

    notes: 10

    reblogged from: soupsoup

    soupsoup: vhudy6tx4dik9ol: eyesnight: The Futuristic illustrations of Syd Mead (who later did the concept art for Blade Runner). via found All of the illustrations are super-cool.

    soupsoup:

    vhudy6tx4dik9ol:

    eyesnight:

    The Futuristic illustrations of Syd Mead

    (who later did the concept art for Blade Runner). via found

    All of the illustrations are super-cool.

     

  3. 09:10

    notes: 6

    Mazda RX500 concept car, shown at the 1970 Tokyo Motorshow. It was developed by the research and design staff at the Toyo Kogyo Company and was a mobile test bed for high-speed safety. The body of the car was constructed from plastic, which helped keep the weight down to 1100 lbs. The Mazda RX 500 had a rotary engine mounted forward of the rear axles and was capable of 125mph. It also featured multi coloured lights, at the rear end of the car, which indicating whether the car was accelerating, braking or running at a constant speed. (via Car Styling)

    Mazda RX500 concept car, shown at the 1970 Tokyo Motorshow.

    It was developed by the research and design staff at the Toyo Kogyo Company and was a mobile test bed for high-speed safety. The body of the car was constructed from plastic, which helped keep the weight down to 1100 lbs. The Mazda RX 500 had a rotary engine mounted forward of the rear axles and was capable of 125mph. It also featured multi coloured lights, at the rear end of the car, which indicating whether the car was accelerating, braking or running at a constant speed.

    (via Car Styling)

     

  4. 09:11

    USS - a portfolio of probabilities _02 (via Prof. Michael Stoll) I think the car in this illustration looks a lot like the Mazda RX500 concept car. (See also the The Futuristic illustrations of Syd Mead and also the previous post)

    USS - a portfolio of probabilities _02 (via Prof. Michael Stoll)

    I think the car in this illustration looks a lot like the Mazda RX500 concept car. (See also the The Futuristic illustrations of Syd Mead and also the previous post)

     

  5. 12:27

    The person driving this RX-7 through this steel-lined tunnel is showing great restraint by driving at only 2000rpm. I’d be down in 3rd to hear the reverb. Yes, I’m a hoon. (via 22cworks)

    The person driving this RX-7 through this steel-lined tunnel is showing great restraint by driving at only 2000rpm. I’d be down in 3rd to hear the reverb. Yes, I’m a hoon. (via 22cworks)

     

  6. 20:56

    notes: 3

    reblogged from: 0

    highindustrial:

    21 Accents

    Aspiring actress Amy Walker runs through twenty-one different regional accents in a little over two minutes. I was going to observe that her European and Australasian pronunciations are quite decent, but then I heard her somewhat awkward American deliveries, so now I’m wondering whether her other inflections don’t sound just as tinny to their respective native listeners. Charming performance regardless.

    via defamer

    Listening as an Australian, her “Sydney” accent is slightly caricatured, particularly the overly ambitious upward inflection at the end of each word and sentence, but might be representative of a young bogan accent. And, yes, it’s sort of tinny.

    Her second Aussie accent is very broad and flat. But probably not broad and flat enough. Not that there aren’t people who have something approximating that accent, but you’d have to head bush to find them, and even then, she’s only kind of close.

    Her New Zealand accent sounds like what Australians do when we make fun of New Zealanders — make of that what you will!