Tag: PIXEL

Facebook users everywhere will soon be able to upload photos in higher resolution, tag their friends with greater efficiency and browse through their friends' albums with more grace, thanks to a new set of features that will begin rolling out this month. The social networking site's new photo features will allow users to upload photos in a 2048-pixel resolution, instead of the traditional ...

You might not realize it, but you live everyday with an arbitrarily imposed, but very real limitation on the quality of digital images. Russell Kirsch created the first digital image, over 50 years ago, when he scanned a photo of his then infant son (on the right in its original size). When deciding how to render the ones and zeros, Kirsch decided on the seemingly logical choice at the time -- ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. The pixel is the new Ben-Day dot for 21st-century Lichtensteins. Seeing as nearly 100-percent of our media culture is transmitted through the pixel, it comes as no ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Artist Simon Cottee explains the history of the pixel, gaming, music and art in the new documentary 'PIXEL.' [From: Simon Cottee, via: Boingboing] Test your mouse ...

There's something about the allure of the pixel that we just can't ignore. Maybe it's because we grew up in the 8-bit era, but pixelated graphics have always held a certain nostalgic charm for us. In fact, we think that just about everything is a little bit better when rendered in blocky glory. This week, we present a fresh batch of games that fills anyone's hunger for modern gameplay and old ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Just because some of the kings of tech never finished their undergraduate studies (Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg) doesn't mean that kids today should skip the college ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Flickr user Max Capacity [AM] lifts pixels from old videogames to build 8-bit cityscapes, from San Francisco to New York. [From: flickr] Kick your weekend off ...

Jim Drain is not a fashion designer. He is an artist, who, over the past umpteen years, has created highly patterned, Huichol-inspired, frequently knitted abstract sculpture that sort of looks like the lovechild of Claes Oldenburg, Mike Kelley, and Nick Cave (the artist) with a hint of Makin Jan Ma. But for New York's gallery-cum-boutique Opening Ceremony, Drain has taken his obsession with knits ...