Synthetic Uncanny
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Movies & TV
Lost Futures and a Time Traveling Robot Haunt Disney’s The Timekeeper
I’m pretty sure Disney’s The Timekeeper taught me the word “improbable.” It also stands as one of the many pieces…
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Movies & TV
The Works Trailer: A Glimpse Into the Almost First-Ever Fully CGI Animated Film
The Works sits on the strangest technological threshold. It was early enough to be a pioneer in the realm of…
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Fragments
A Woman Kisses A Reflective Robot Goodnight In NYIT’s ‘Interface’
In 1984, NYIT’s Computer Graphics Lab chose to demo reflection mapping with a 14-second scene between a human woman and…
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Weekly Doomscrolls
New Backrooms Trailer, Neighborhood Time Slips, and Trips Around the Moon
It’s April, and you know what that means: Trust no one, and go to the moon. Let’s check out some…
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Fragments
Sine-Wave Speech Sounds Like Nonsense…Until It Doesn’t
This stuff makes my head hurt. Sine-Wave speech or synthesis was first developed in the 1970s by Philip Rubin at…
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Fragments
3D Face Animations From 1974 Are A Touch Unsettling
Well that’s a bit haunting. 1974 was apparently a time of strange floating heads reciting poetry, but back then this…
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Movies & TV
The Mandela Effect (2019): Rebooting the Universe With Some Paranormal Nostalgia
Many of us have tumbled down that old internet rabbit hole, questioning reality over misremembered logos and movie lines. David…
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Fragments
A Furby Prepared With Ground Turkey And Duck Sauce, 2006
Do you ever go out for Black Friday? If you had a time machine, you could jet back to 1998…
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Fragments
Strange Inventions: The Anti-Earthquake Bed
Here’s a video of an anti-earthquake (or seismic safety) bed, a Russian invention from 2015. Its majestic 3D recreations let…
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Weekly Doomscrolls
[Weeklies] Do Robots Lucid Dream Of Running Marathons?
Have you ever had a lucid dream? You can have something close during a hypnagogic state – that period between…