DIGITAL DJING LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER – AND IT WORKS

Kate Stone has advanced some futuristic technology, turning simple construction paper into turntables that actually play music.

Youth Radio and Turnstyle had the honor of hosting this inventor who wants to change the way we think about electronics. It’s awe-inspiring to watch Stone’s as-yet-unnamed creation in action: you touch your simulated turntables on a piece of paper, and you’re controlling the DJ app on the iPad sitting five feet away from you. Every function that’s available on an analog turntable, including blending songs and scratching records, is also possible with Stone’s technology.

Besides just music, this technology has promise for other fields like education, where it could help meet literacy gaps.
Say a child is learning how to read, and he doesn’t understand a particular word. He could run his fingers over a sentence printed on Stone’s paper, hooked up to speakers,

and it could offer pronunciation help. Of course, there are some apps for the iPad and other tablets that can do this already. But when you think globally about needs in developing countries, this technology is much cheaper than buying iPads. - Kent Foster

It seems that every month brings a big new development in San Francisco’s tech scene, and with those developments comes more outcry that the city’s working class isn’t seeing the benefits of the re-configuring economy. This is a reprise of what happened during San Francisco’s first dot com boom. Many young people who are part of the new economy see the transformation as natural and necessary, while others say it’s disastrous for the city.

Reporter/Producer- Nishat Kurwa @nishatjaan @turnstylenews
Video Producer - Chaz Hubbard

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Conference Aims To Jumpstart Tech Founders, and Industry Diversity San Francisco Bay Area residents, techie or not, are swimming in the wisdom of startup culture, with its cognescenti profiting handsomely from the books and blogs that form the canon in their industry. But the organizers of a conference held this week in San Francisco are betting that there are a lot of tech entrepreneurs who could use more high-touch exposure to that advice, and in turn, that the industry will benefit from engaging those same startup founders.  
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Conference Aims To Jumpstart Tech Founders, and Industry Diversity

San Francisco Bay Area residents, techie or not, are swimming in the wisdom of startup culture, with its cognescenti profiting handsomely from the books and blogs that form the canon in their industry. But the organizers of a conference held this week in San Francisco are betting that there are a lot of tech entrepreneurs who could use more high-touch exposure to that advice, and in turn, that the industry will benefit from engaging those same startup founders.  

The Seven Seals of The TVpocalypseby Noah J. Nelson The future of technology is beginning to look a lot like the past. Specifically it’s beginning to look like television. In form and function. In the past few years there has been an explosion in smart TVs and stand-alone set-top boxes. Nary a Blu-Ray player in sight doesn’t ship with Netflix and Pandora. Roku has a whole business based around their streaming box, and while Apple keeps calling the Apple TV a “hobby” they’re selling millions of the hockey pucks. One of the reasons that the current generation of gaming consoles has managed to last so long is because of the rollout of video features like Netflix, Amazon Video, and HBO Go to the game platforms. All of this is just what is possible today. By this time next year we’re going to be in the midst of a TVpocalypse. The opening moves of what just might be the Last War for the Living Room are upon us. Stare with me into the depths of the Internet and see the dread portents of the age to come. Unleash the prophecy at Turnstyle! Photo Illustration after Google.
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The Seven Seals of The TVpocalypse
by Noah J. Nelson

The future of technology is beginning to look a lot like the past. Specifically it’s beginning to look like television. In form and function.

In the past few years there has been an explosion in smart TVs and stand-alone set-top boxes. Nary a Blu-Ray player in sight doesn’t ship with Netflix and Pandora. Roku has a whole business based around their streaming box, and while Apple keeps calling the Apple TV a “hobby” they’re selling millions of the hockey pucks. One of the reasons that the current generation of gaming consoles has managed to last so long is because of the rollout of video features like Netflix, Amazon Video, and HBO Go to the game platforms.

All of this is just what is possible today.

By this time next year we’re going to be in the midst of a TVpocalypse. The opening moves of what just might be the Last War for the Living Room are upon us. Stare with me into the depths of the Internet and see the dread portents of the age to come.

Unleash the prophecy at Turnstyle!

Photo Illustration after Google.

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Rivalry Breaks Out Among NYC’s Live-streaming Protesters Victoria Sobel was making her afternoon rounds of Zuccotti Park. Holding a laptop with a webcam pointed outward, Sobel stopped to talk with two construction workers eating lunch in the Lower Manhattan park. She asked them if they wanted to say anything to the 300 people currently watching her livestream channel. The workers looked at Sobel with a certain enthusiastic expression — an expression that may be unique to people who are suddenly aware that their faces are being broadcast to a large, unseen audience by a form of media that is basically free of censorship. Then one of the workers, a barrel-chested man in a hardhat, stared directly into the webcam. “One percent, go to hell,” he yelled. Live from New York, it’s Occupy Wall Street Live! Sobel is a volunteer member of the Occupy NYC livestream team and is convinced that the streaming online videos she produces are changing the media landscape. “The livestream has no real filter on it,” she told me. “It’s really in opposition to a lot of the things that you see. The TV trucks out there with the news anchors — it’s a contrived way of providing the news. I feel very strongly about that. It’s not news anymore, it’s theatre.” But theatre, it turns out, is not just the purview of the mainstream media. Just a couple weeks ago another Occupy Wall Street protester, Thorin Caristo, started his own, independent livestream channel creating drama in the media camp. “There was a lot of push back,” Caristo said about the response he got from the protesters working on the original livestream. “Like, ‘Whoa, you just started your own channel? We own the channel. We don’t need another channel.’” Read and see more on Turnstyle»
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Rivalry Breaks Out Among NYC’s Live-streaming Protesters

Victoria Sobel was making her afternoon rounds of Zuccotti Park. Holding a laptop with a webcam pointed outward, Sobel stopped to talk with two construction workers eating lunch in the Lower Manhattan park. She asked them if they wanted to say anything to the 300 people currently watching her livestream channel.

The workers looked at Sobel with a certain enthusiastic expression — an expression that may be unique to people who are suddenly aware that their faces are being broadcast to a large, unseen audience by a form of media that is basically free of censorship. Then one of the workers, a barrel-chested man in a hardhat, stared directly into the webcam.

“One percent, go to hell,” he yelled.

Live from New York, it’s Occupy Wall Street Live!

Sobel is a volunteer member of the Occupy NYC livestream team and is convinced that the streaming online videos she produces are changing the media landscape.

“The livestream has no real filter on it,” she told me. “It’s really in opposition to a lot of the things that you see. The TV trucks out there with the news anchors — it’s a contrived way of providing the news. I feel very strongly about that. It’s not news anymore, it’s theatre.”

But theatre, it turns out, is not just the purview of the mainstream media. Just a couple weeks ago another Occupy Wall Street protester, Thorin Caristo, started his own, independent livestream channel creating drama in the media camp.

“There was a lot of push back,” Caristo said about the response he got from the protesters working on the original livestream. “Like, ‘Whoa, you just started your own channel? We own the channel. We don’t need another channel.’”

Read and see more on Turnstyle»