Intel: Can tech break the distraction addiction?

Using technology to become more mindful seems like a contradiction, but new apps try to cure our distraction addiction. You’re waiting in line at the grocery store with time to kill or at the bar waiting for a friend. Instinctually, you reach for your smartphone to...

Intel: A mobile device can predict my life

Several in-the-works applications combine sensors and computing to make smart, connected devices that dial in to our deepest emotions.  Any sci-fi fan, or really anyone familiar with the phrase “I’ll Be Back,” has cited the fictional Skynet from “Terminator” as...

Altered Zones: Artist Profile on Sun Araw

Sun Araw, the “sacred retreat” of Cameron Stallones, once again rides fleeting moments of spiritual clarity out to the end of the astral plane on his recently Zoned In Ancient Romans. Here, Stallones comes out guns blazing with his most sonically acrobatic...
Altered Zones: Artist Profile on Woodsman

Altered Zones: Artist Profile on Woodsman

After spreading the gospel within the Rhinoceropolis DIY scene of their native Denver, Woodsman unleashed a steady torrent of brain burning 7”s and cassettes throughout last year with the help of trusted sources like Mexican Summer and Lefse. On their new full length,...

Altered Zones: Artist Profile on Leyland Kirby

Under The Caretaker moniker, Berlin-based British sound artist James Leyland Kirby has taken on the heady (no pun intended) subject of memory and mental illness. His 2005 effort Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia– originally released as a downloadable...