Here’s something that’ll add a little Play to your day.
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A mad scientist discovers hidden city art made with data, gears, lasers and popcorn. Now playing on YouTube→
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T'was a few weeks before Christmas and IBMer Matt Ganis thought it’d be fun to let his blog followers control his office tree’s lights over the Web. So with his Raspberry Pi computer, a webcam, some crafty fswebcam coding and a flurry of ingenuity, he got busy. It wasn’t long before his followers were hitting the ‘on’ and ‘off’ buttons on his site, making his tree the most festive display in his office. In the spirit of Christmas and PLAY, Matt’s tree is up again and ready for you to tinker with over the holidays here. Who needs store-bought strings of blinking lights when you have the power of play at work?
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Even though Tom Zimmerman has over 40 patents, he still finds time outside of the office for play. He’s actually been playing a DIY guitar he constructed out of a PVC pipe. Will this play exploration directly advance IBM? You never know. What we do know is that it’s helping younger generations understand that science can have practical implications. In 2009, Tom showed low-income high school students how to build their own guitars. You can learn too by checking out this step by step tutorial →
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A Case for Meant to Be
Tales from the IBM Playground
The lab is a scientist’s playground. And just like in childhood, it is a place where, sometimes, life’s truths are discovered on accident. IBM Researcher, Jeannette Garcia, forgot to add a reagent to her flask, and voila, a groundbreaking polymer was realized. This new substance is not only lightweight and recyclable, but it is also self-healing, which means that it can repair itself after being “wounded.” Wouldn’t it have been nice to have that superpower on the actual playground?
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It ain’t over until the #PlayMachine monkey claps…
Yes, folks, our three week Livestream feed has finally come to an end.. So what happens next for “this giant human cat toy” (nice tweet @creepil_ne)? Stay tuned… In the meantime our Tumblr playdate is far from over. There’s more in our Innovation Through PLAY series to come.
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Get an up-close look at the Play Machine.
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Bye-bye Play Machine!
(Today at 3 pm EST)
Soon we’ll bid a fond farewell to the popping, chopping, globe-hopping, IBMblr Play Machine. So make sure to get your last licks in now, then tune into our live feed finale at 3pm EST as we send the Play Machine off into that great big Internet attic in the sky.
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