|
3
Votes
vote
Yellow Pages, now more green than yellowI think it's been at least five years since I used an actual telephone book. With a wi-fi broadband connection to the all-knowing Internet, those old books are now only useful to me as makeshift booster seats and yet they continue to show up on my doorstep, year after year. ... |
|
0
Votes
vote
They may have found CopernicusVery cool story. And even cooler, they figured out it was him (or are pretty sure) based on hairs they found in one of his old books. Imagine. Over four hundred years ago he was reading a book and some hairs fell off his head and lodged between the pages, only to be discovered nearly half a mi... |
|
0
Votes
vote
We've got captchaThis past weekend, we added a captcha system to TED.com's "Send this user an email" feature. We're using reCaptcha, which harnesses the mighty power of captcha to help digitize old books and newspapers. Right now, reCaptcha is decoding texts from the Internet Archive (watch Brewster Kah... |
|
0
Votes
vote
Awww yeah... [Laelaps]I have spoken before of my fondness for book digitization projects, but there are still some improvements to be made. Many of the titles presently available via resources like Google Books are relatively low-quality and look no better than photocopies, but with the basic move towards digitization... |
|
2
Votes
vote
New Tech Brings Augmented Reality, 3D Models to Books [Books]A German company called Metaio is developing a new system that turns regular old books into reality-augmented 3D objects, with models of things like globes sprouting off of the pages. All you need to get it working is a webcam, the software and a book designed for the system and you'll be checkin... |
|
3
Votes
vote
HOWTO: Make a purse out of a stack of old booksBoing Boing - “LiveJournaller Penwiper337 set to explore the “librarian side of steampunk” by turning a stack of old crummy hardcover books into a beautiful purse” ... |
Create tab
Block this tag
