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Music
How Mickey Mouse And Mr. Q Manufactured Emotion
9:00AM Rosa Golijan | Former Disney audio-experience engineer, Mr. Q, reveals how he assisted in developing a complex algorithm to arrange over 15,000 speakers around the Disney World theme park. All to achieve the ideal ambient music for “manufacturing emotion”. More »
Cameras
Tilt-Shift Photography Turns Disney World Into Epic Toy Set
5:00AM Mark Wilson | Disney World is essentially one big toy model, so in many cases, its miniaturisation through the magic of tilt-shift photography ironically looks more natural than actually being there. As a pile of trinkets, Disney World actually seems pretty normal. [TechEBlog]
Robots
‘Robobama’ Gets Prepped for July 4th Debut at Disney World
3:00AM Adam Frucci | Disney technicians are hard at work on an incredibly-lifelike robotic version of President Obama. Dick Cheney is reportedly working on a virus to cause the robot to fail. More »
Robots
Animatronic Wall-E Entertains Guests At Disneyland, Charges US$5 For a Popsicle
5:50AM Jason Chen | What’s even better than a Wall-E robot toy made by WowWee? A Wall-E robot toy made by the animatronic people at Disney. This Wall-E robot is supposed to roam around Disneyland/Disney World entertaining patrons, but got spotted on the streets of LA panhandling and glad-handing for cash. You know who else can say their name? Timmy from South Park. Wall-E! [Slashfilm] More »
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