Number station broadcast 6/12

  • Border privacy handbook launched with workshop at UBC law : “The BCCLA is launching at a workshop at UBC Law School. a new handbook that helps people keep their information confidential when crossing the border. The handbook and workshop are intended to help professionals, like lawyers, doctors, social workers and others with sensitive client information, as well as activists who attract government surveillance, to protect their information while crossing the border.”
  • Student Learning Can Only be Described, Not Measured : “All high-stakes testing is based on the paradigm that learning can be ‘measured’ by using a device that produces a number. Tests play the role of this measuring device and the resulting numbers are translated into scores. These scores are then compared and contrasted and by selecting arbitrary criteria are used to categorize students, teachers, schools, districts and states. But what if the paradigm is wrong. What if learning cannot be ‘measured’?”
  • Portable 3D Scanner For Your Smartphone : “Armada is a simple, conceptual 3D scanner developed by designers Isaac Blankensmith and Kyle DeHovitz who wanted to be able to rapidly capture sources of inspiration in an editable 3D format. The small and portable scanner was built so that anyone can create high-quality 3D models of objects via their smartphone.”
  • Map Your Own 3D Space With Metaio Creator Mobile : “Yesterday, Metaio CTO Peter Meier ran a small demo for me that describes how their new Creator Mobile software allows any user to map a 3D space with a coordinate system, so they can then add their own digital, Augmented Reality content to that space. This mobile app will work in conjunction with their desktop solution called simply Metaio Creator… which is where the content is actually associated with the coordinate system, via “drag and drop”.”
  • The Shape of Shaping Things to Come : “3D printed objects, or “physibles” are an incredible example of the mundane aspects of future-weird. They are glitchy-as-fuck, but their shapeshifting effect on our cultural space will inhabit the same metaphysics of street graffiti— appreciated by only a few, truly understood by even less.”