Alberto Castro 21·02·2012

WiGig: a wireless network for a connected home

Smartphones, tablets, intelligent televisions, games consoles with many more uses than just playing, and of course the personal computer. The modern digital home is far from how it used to be a decade ago, where there was no Internet access available or at best we had to connect using an Ethernet cable. And logically, interconnectivity needs are also different today, bearing in mind the huge variety of devices we navigate the Net with on a daily basis read post

Tech

Flavio Escribano 14·02·2012

It’s not Game Art, it’s Journey

Journey will be the latest instalment from Jenova Chen’s studio (thatgamecompany) for Playstation Network. Jenova struck popularity whilst completing his doctoral thesis on dynamic difficulty adjustment he produced and published read post

Games

Jorge Gallardo 12·02·2012

The smartphone, an all-in-one that’s taking over the audiovisual market

Spain is the country with the highest market penetration level of smartphones among the youth population (4 out of every 10 youths have one according to Nielsen). Such a high acceptance rate is changing media consumption at a frantic pace read post

Media

ArtsMoved 5·02·2012

The Book Cover Archive: covers for reading images

For a book to be read it doesn’t just have to be good. Sometimes, this isn’t even the criteria we follow, because before we are readers, we are consumers affected by factors such as a publishing company’s power to enter the market, the distribution and promotion of an author, and all those things that, in the end, help a book become a best-seller read post

Design

Raquel Herrera 2·02·2012

Three little arcadias in troubled times

Cutbacks, closures, interruptions: there doesn’t appear to be any reason for celebration in our current artistic outlook. However, three projects from Barcelona strive to create alternatives read post

Art

Andrés Colmenares 31·01·2012

Sevenly: t-shirts to change the world

How could we change the world by selling t-shirts? Dale Partridge and Aaron Chavez, two, respectively, 26 and 19 year old visionaries, have the answer to this question with Sevenly, a young Californian company with a mission: to raise funds and give visibility to causes such as the fight against hunger, poverty and slavery read post

e-Commerce

María Ripoll Cera 31·01·2012

Don’t remain inactive

If Facebook were red, for urgency, and vitality, it would be Parobook, (literally Dolebook) the social network for the unemployed imitating the style of the former in order to activate jobless people. Its motto: “Unity makes us stronger”.

“Parobook is born out of solitude –explains David Manzanero, one of its founders-, the solitude that the unemployed feel in the course of our search for a job read post

Social initiatives

Playground 29·01·2012

San Miguel Primavera Sound 2012. Follow their press conference from your computer

The San Miguel Primavera Sound team keep working in favour of transparency, opening channels to make its regulars feel more and more like participants of the festival. There are its forums and its blog, examples of direct, person to person communication between the organisation and their audience read post

Music