| Today's Top Stories | | #1 | The FCC's net neutrality proposal is awesome but it has a loophole | | | By Stacey Higginbotham, Giga Om | | | FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has taken the unprecedented and awesome step of using Title II to ensure that the internet remains open and that ISPs cannot discriminate against the type of traffic flowing across their networks. The FCC has crafted the strongest net neutrality rules I have ever seen. They will cover both wireline and wireless broadband networks. More»
Why This Matters: I wanted net neutrality (who doesn't want stuff to be free?). But the libertarian web was never going to last. The question was whether it would be controlled by corporate virtual monopolies or government. Both are so been-there, done-that. Maybe the marketplace would have gotten interesting as Google and Amazon duked it out with the carriers. Or maybe it would have just fossilized like any other imbalanced marketplace. Maybe the FCC can take the lightest possible hand and avoid the familiar public utility pitfalls and whiplash of regulation/deregulation. It's bittersweet. We have lived through one of the great DIY innovations of history – a kind of miraculous blending of infrastructure investment and creative investment. We all built it. It feels like a magic time is over, but that was coming anyway. Maybe President Obama is right about how smart Tom Wheeler is. –Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #2 | Eye Candy: A curved wall of glass that flickers as the wind blows | | | By Kyle Vanhemert, Wired | | | Shade, an installation which just wrapped up in London, is a 1,500 square-foot facade of curved glass, fragmented into small triangular cells. Wind outside is measured at several points along the facade. The gusts are interpreted by a program, triggering individual cells to change from opaque to transparent. The result is an ever-changing ballet of light on the gallery floor. More»
Why This Matters: This is flat out gorgeous. A cross between lighting and nature-mapping (I just made that up). And what an idea for windows in a room that has projection, assuming the program could be set to full opaque. I could see it in very high-end corporate boardroom (very, very high-end) or a museum. Or my dream houses. -Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #3 | DJI is making its 4K drone cameras removable for handheld use on a new mount | | | Via 4K. com | | | Now DJI (so far alone among drone makers) has also taken things further stil in terms of flexibility by making its gimbal mounted DJI Inspire 1 drone removable, so that it can be put to handheld use, much like a regular 4K camera but with with unique functionality. More»
Why This Matters: This product in development is a drone-y twist on PTZ‹and worth looking at as a brainstorm about where PTZ may be going. Also, and this is my favorite part, the mount will let you use your smartphone as a viewfinder! -Cynthia Wisehart |
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