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zenorocha/clipboard.js

github.com/zenorocha/clipboard.js
clipboard.js - Modern copy to clipboard. No Flash. Just 2kb

SpaCy.io | Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing

spacy.io/
spaCy is a library for industrial-strength text processing in Python. If you're a small company doing NLP, we want spaCy to seem like a minor miracle.

Skrekkøgle

skrekkogle.com/
We're big fans of single purpose artifacts that perform one task well. We find that being very strict about input/output diversity, and making the few essential interactions tangible, usually ends up in aesthetically pleasing objects..

Psychologie ergonomique - Wikiwand

wikiwand.com/fr/Psychologie_ergonomique
La psychologie ergonomique est une branche de la psychologie dont les résultats, connaissances, méthodes et outils sont en lien avec l'ergonomie. Elle est psychologique en tant qu'elle centre ses analyses sur les comportements tels qu'ils s'expriment au niveau individuel. Elle est ergonomique dans la mesure où ses travaux portent sur les situations de travail, celles-ci devant être prises au sens large pour inclure toute activité orientée impliquant des objets techniques.

Brandolini's Law

notes.pinboard.in/u:vloux/6832e372a0b5afa4b729
“The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”— @ziobrando

StudioNAND/tact-hardware

github.com/StudioNAND/tact-hardware
See also http://philippschmitt.com/projects/tact - turn any conductive object into a sensor, a low-cost alternative to Disney Research's Touché. And https://github.com/philippschmitt/tact-arduino for Arduino library

Camera Restricta by Philipp Schmitt, Interaction Designer

philippschmitt.com/projects/camera-restricta
Camera Restricta is a speculative design of a new kind of camera. It locates itself via GPS and searches online for photos that have been geotagged nearby. If the camera decides that too many photos have been taken at your location, it retracts the shutter and blocks the viewfinder. You can't take any more pictures here.

Javascript and the Internet of Things- Postscapes

postscapes.com/javascript-and-the-internet-of-things
Javascript and the Internet of Things - A look at how JavaScript, Node.js is driving the Internet of Things -