Liberation, by Hisashi Murata, is an installation using a robot that unleashes itself to die whenever it comes […]
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Kin, by cshool + canade, is a system that allows people to give a prayer over the Internet. […]
According to Nikkei, a group of researchers at Keio University has made a scarf that changes color to […]
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Spyglass, by Fumiaki Murakami, is a spy glass that provides immersive 360-dgree virtual reality experiences. When you rotate […]
RGBy, by Shinya Matsuyama and Makoto Hirahara, is a cube-shaped lamp that senses color and glows with the […]
I, piano? We, Drums. Freqtric drums, by Tetsuaki Baba, is a device that turns people into drums. A […]
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Sony is starting to ship samples of their new tactile input device called Touch Engine Module, which can […]
Akitsugu Maebayashi’s new sound installation “4Pieces for Object, Sound, Space and Body – ‘Radio,’ ‘Window,’ ‘Metronome,’ ‘Darkness,’” is […]
Where did/will/should anime and art meet? This I believe is one of the questions Gundam Exhibition asked when […]
One of the most popular Japanese podcast channels is Jun Returns a Favor (Jun No Ongaeshi), a collection […]
Howlin, by Marina Yanagisawa, is a unique musical instrument partly inspired by Theremine, one of the earliest electronic […]
When I saw this “hand roll piano” with a MIDI interface at King’s Idea Shop in Shinjuku earlier […]
Yokai is a type of creatures in Japanese folklore such as Oni, Nopperabou, Yuki-onna, Rokurokubi, etc. They are […]
The Cambrian Game, by Toshihiro Anzai and Rieko Nakamura, is a game in which players submit their own […]
We’ve already reported on some projects from Okude Lab at Keio University, but I shouldn’t forget to mention […]
dorkbot Tokyo #000002 will take place at Machida International Print Art Museum in Tokyo on the 2nd of […]
Even in Japan, professors often like students to read “serious” books rather than manga comics. But some professors […]
Takeo Igarashi, one of the creators of the software tool for smooth shape manipulations (the one regine mentioned […]
Many Japanese must have seen Ferenc Cako‘s live sand animation on TV as it was featured in NTT […]
Nukunukukey is a key-shaped information appliance that provides awareness about one’s home through sound, light and heat. [Prototype […]
Modulobe, by Kouichirou Eto et al., is a free software tool for constructing virtual creatures. [Sample creatures made […]
Asaichi project, by Kyoko Yamakawa, connects urban life and rural life of farmers through a dining table. A […]
wwwrb, by Hiroki Obara, is a large cylinder display device for browsing the Web. [wwwrb provides omni-directional web […]
Video Turntable, by miyakodub, is a machine that appears to be very similar to a regular turntable. You […]
Roborior‘s debut (picturephoning.com rediff) at major Japanese department stores was one of the biggest news last week in […]
Tmsuk, the company that makes Roborior and Altemis robots, has a notable web page that features Japanese Prime […]
Featured in “The Art of Breathing in the World” Exibition are provocative new-media art installations by KOSUGI+ANDO, including […]
Following the last two posts about Kenji Yanobe (if you remember: Cinema in the Wood and Postapocalyptic survival […]
Cinema in The Wood, by Yanobe Kenji, is a kids’ movie theater and nuclear shelter. Educational movies are […]
QR codes are quite ubiquitous in Japan. So, there are now inexpensive hardware and software tools for printing […]
Tanaka Seisakusyo’s new Automatic Door is the most puzzling thing I’ve seen this week. The door is segmented […]
Another piece by Ryota Kuwakubo is called VideoBulb, which is now commercialized as an information appliance. Flash version […]
Heaven Seed is a smart plastic ball that senses its movement and generates various sound effects in real […]
MYSQ (My Style So Qute) is an interactive “video booth” for shooting 30-second movies that can be viewed […]
m@terials, developed by Jitsuro Mase, use an off-the-shelf LCD projector to display a “3D theater” on a table. […]
Oto Kinoko is a “sound shop” in Kyoto, which was produced by Kazumichi Fujiwara, the sound artist from […]
Ugo Ugo Lhuga, one of the most unforgettable Japanese kids TV show in the 1990’s, is rerun on […]
Delay Phone, by Ryota Kuwakubo, is a video phone system that allows users to intentionally increase or decrease […]
Another installation using “programmable shadows” was created by Azusa Saito. It’s called Itokageboushi, meaning something like a “string […]
R/V is an installation by Ryota Kuwakubo, which uses mobile robots equipped with LCD monitors, CCD cameras, microphones, […]