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NY Public Library turns stereographs into animated GIFs, reminds your 3D TV of its roots

shaun — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:14:38 +0000

Digging your 3D TVs, video game consoles and laptops? Thank the past — the New York Public Library is here to remind you that streographic entertainment has been blowing minds for over 100 years, and has the animated gifs to prove it. The Library recently introduced Stereogranimator, a web app that taps into the institution’s large collection of historical stereographs and allows user to convert them into wiggling GIF animations and 3D anaglyphs. The program was inspired by “Reaching for the Out of Reach,” a manual labor of animated stereographs started by San Francisco artist Joshua Heineman. The library currently has over 40,000 pairs of stenographic images just begging to be converted to depth-suggesting wigglepic. Interested? The link is below, friends — go ahead and create your own psudeo-3D view of history. Too lazy to make your own? Fine, read on for a shaky and colorful look at an orange tree.

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Houdini’s Letter, Mary Shelley’s Hair Among New York Public Library’s Artifacts

shaun — Sun, 15 May 2011 03:14:19 +0000

The curators at the New York Public Library have spent a century amassing the library’s extensive research collection — everything from 4,300-year-old Sumerian cuneiforms to Malcolm X’s briefcase. See a sampling of the fascinating, historical stash in this preview gallery.

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The Ghostbusters Return to the New York Public Library [Ghosts]

shaun — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:55:32 +0000

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Sony unveils new high-end Reader Daily Edition, expanded library partnership

crave — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:57:00 +0000

The Sony Reader Daily Edition is coming in December.

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Sony on Tuesday announced its first e-book reader with built-in wireless capability. The new Reader Daily Edition offers an integrated 3G wireless connection, allowing it to access Sony’s online bookstore as well as yet-to-be-announced newspaper and magazine subscriptions. The unit–which boasts a 7-inch touch screen (displayable in portrait or landscape mode)–will sell for $399 when it debuts in December. Wireless service is provided by AT&T with no direct charge to the customer.

The Reader Daily Edition joins the already announced Touch Edition PRS-600 ($299) and Pocket Edition PRS-300 ($199), both of which should be available within the next couple of weeks. With the exception of the wireless connection and larger screen, the specs of the Reader Daily Edition are otherwise in line with that of the Touch Edition: it offers an E Ink Vizplex electronic paper screen with 16 shades of gray.

Sony used the launch event at the New York Public Library to highlight some notable new features of its e-book platform. Most notable is the expansion of support for library loans to the Sony Readers. If your local library supports electronic lending, members will be able to download the borrowed books and transfer them to the Reader for 21 days (after which the files expire). Sony is partnering with Overdrive.com to make it easier to search for available books at participating libraries.

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There’s a fancy Wi-Fi room now at the New York Public Library

othertech — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:00:15 +0000

Ever find yourself wandering around Manhattan with nothing but a netbook in your backpack? Who doesn’t, right? Well, if that’s the case, get thee to the New York Public Library. It seems there’s a new Wi-Fi room that’s the bee’s knees.

The room officially goes by the name of the Edna Barnes Salomon Room, though it will by the end of the day be forever known as The Wi-Fi Room. The room, which re-opens today, is there for people who want to surf the Web, read stuff online, etc.

And, starting next week, you’ll even be able to borrow a laptop with which to surf, I don’t know, Marca and El Mundo Deportivo all day long.

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