The project began in the summer of 2010, when Rodrigo Corral, a book designer who has created covers for Junot Diaz, Jeffrey Eugenides and Jay-Z, began to toy with the idea of a visual novel that used images, rather than words, to tell the story.
The idea is that the visual cues, combined with the physical ones help stroke patients rebuild nerve connections more quickly through the combination of stimuli.
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Derek Gottfrid, the company's vice president of product who currently oversees revenue, said that the idea is to use the visual nature of Tumblr to let brands create campaigns that emphasize pictures, video and text.
Both Instagram and Pinterest have brought a greater visual element to social networking, further reinforcing the idea that people (especially younger people) want to curate and then share who they are and what their lives are about with their communities online.
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This kind of visual array of related items isn't a new idea.
Phil Duncan: Well, first of all we make sure we can translate the big idea, or ideal, in a signature visual or with a few simple words.
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Chips based on this architecture AMD calls Accelerated Processing Units or APUs from the old idea that graphics processors are hardware accelerators for rendering visual data.
And they were just, you know, they met up and started talking and the idea that the Cirque du Soleil could do some sort of surrealistic impressionistic visual take on The Beatles' music started.
Masayoshi Son, the billionaire (and philanthropic) CEO of SoftBank, has given a two-hour speech to his shareholders about his technological predictions for the next 30 years, and about halfway through he describes a familiar idea: augmented reality glasses that can understand what a person is saying and provide subtitles as a visual overlay.
That unity idea also extends to the idea of browser searching, where you'll see both trending topics as well as immediate answers and visual thumbnails of the top search results.
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All in all, it's just sort of a silly idea, bribing children to use the toilet with the promise of touchscreen entertainment, perpetuating this need for visual stimulation literally all the time.
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