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Rebind claims to be a "mindfulness app for deep reading, guided by the world's most interesting people. Rebind challenges you to engage with a book in a whole new way."

Huh?

Yeah, so it appears to be a site that at the moment has a limited library of titles, each "hosted" by experts on that title. While you read the ebook, their notes and commentary are available. In addition to just annotation, there's an AI interface that connects you with the notes of that expert, so you can, at any time, ask specific questions and have them answered by the AI which uses the well of information that the expert provided.

Current titles on offer are

• A Tale of Two Cities with Margaret Atwood
• Huckleberry Finn with Marlon James
• The Age of Innocence with Roxanne Gay
• Dubliners with John Banville
• And more

It's certainly an interesting idea, and if I had an extra $120 lying around I'd try the annual membership. I'll check back in the future to see how the library expands. It's certainly an interesting approach to AI.

More on the Rebind site.

I was reminded of this little masterpiece today. All the characters are made of wood and animated frame by frame.

Some lovely illustrations by Katja Lang.

Some are available as limited edition prints in Lang's shop.

Many more on Lang's site.

Kelli Anderson, creator of This Book Is a Camera and This Book Is A Planetarium, has a new font-focused pop-up book on Kickstarter: Alphabet In Motion. I backed this when it launched but forgot to post about it here. Only 3 days left to back!

Here's videos of her previous books:

Kelli's books make fantastic gifts. I've given them multiple times.

Return to Hair Hill is a gorgeously animated film from French Canadian Daniel Gies.

Utilizing a multi-layered turntable and altered pieces of vinyl, Graham Dunning creates Mechanical Techno.

You can see the process here:

How to print an image "using photosensitive material from plants under the influence of light," a/k/a an anthotype:

More from Edd Carr if you're interested in sustainable photography.

I thought this was truly fascinating: Dani Clode developed a "third thumb" that goes on the opposite side of your hand to your natural thumb. It is controlled remotely via your two big toes. It was tested on 600 people at an event and most were controlling it successfully in under one minute.Extraordinary. Here's two videos on it:

Clode's own site also has some fascinating non-third-thumb material.

Via Metafilter

This'll be everywhere soon, but as I type this, it's breaking news: The Onion has won the bankruptcy auction for insane conspiracy nut and all-around shitbird Alex Jones' Infowars. Jones is on my list of worst humans off all time and I'm delighted that it looks like The Onion plans to use Infowars to skewer him.

Here's a gift link to the NYTimes coverage:

And here's The Onion's own story on the story.