Inflatable structures can achieve movement by the computer-controlled, dynamic redistribution of air. Babot, a Japanese company, offers commercial […]
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Researchers at Birmingham University and Thales hope to develop portable sensors to detect hidden weapons and explosives in […]
Patrick O’Brian‘s take on Japanese Boy. Via transbuddha. For the readers who understand french, a video from the […]
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Marti Guixé and Mediamatic invite you to FOOD FACILITY. In this working prototype restaurant, the central kitchen is […]
images, illustrations, advertising pamphlets, trade catalogs, patents, rare books and other items realted to Concealed hearing devices of […]
The Museum of Safety Gear for Small Animals, by Toronto-based artist Bill Burns, exploits the ridiculous to spark […]
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Spam is an important factor of net traffic. To create and send out millions of electronic letters, massmailer […]
Stephen Salter of the University of Edinburgh is proposing a fleet of yachts that sprays water droplets into […]
Hu Yang began documented the lives of Shanghai residents, interviewing and photographing 500 families in their homes. From […]
Suited for Subversion draws on Ralph Borland‘s work as an activist involved in street demonstrations in New York. […]
Osaka-based organization Kenkyu Kaihatsu Kiko said it has developed an eyeglasses-like image display enabling a patient to see […]
To protect Buddhist monks in predominantly Muslim southern Thailand from increased violence, new products are being developed, from […]
Aliens take over The Science Museum in London. The Peril From Another Planet zone explores the variety of […]
Refugee Only are two costumes that look more like a shelter than garmentt, one is made out of […]
To the posters. Via Bedazzled.
Artist Brock Enright offers is notorious in the US as the man who performs “bespoke executive kidnappings” for […]
One might marvel at Matmos Air Swith Lamp, but in 2001 Michael Anastassiades was designing something more devious. […]
Toshiba’s “Digital Kagami (mirror) F-type” uses the “Cell” next-generation microprocessor to recognize a human face in real time, […]
The school-capsules devised by Future Systems plug on to conventional buildings, uncovering new spatial and didactic possibilities. The […]
Looks like Yokohama Triennale is the place to go this winter. Here’s what i found while wasting time […]
“Wayang” Interactive Puppet , a project by So-youn Park from the Korea National University of Arts, is a […]
Is it possible to sense the effect of being there without physically being present? Leah Heiss developed the […]
Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures, the space tourism firm that arranged Gregory Olsen‘s voyage has teamed up […]
Masahiro Fukuyama sculpts suits, inspired by the ancient culture of the Samurai and contemporary game-culture.
Roger Arquer‘s Bing Bong light needs water to switch on/off. The water works as a conductor between the […]
An essay on Videogame Aesthetics, by David Hayward. Via Wonderland.
Off the shore of Staten Island New York, a graveyard of decommissioned, scrapped, and abandoned ships. Via Las […]
A-Z Wagon Stations are one of Andrea Zittel‘s experiments in mobile living. The units provide a membrane against […]
The Healing Foundation and the University of Manchester are teaming up to understand how some creatures can recreate […]
One of the most innovative and experimental fashion designers, Hussein Chalayan, is to show outfits, installations, photographic images […]
Blinkenlights is the interactive light installation that allows mobile phone users to create animations or play games such […]
The sci-fi-esque “clothes maker” Hamansutra – alias Haman Alimardani – has been interviewed by PingMag. For the final […]
The rats of Embracing Animals are named Matilda, Tara and Star. They are transgenic rats, HLAB27 transgenic rats […]
With the exception of Vatican‘s Saint Peter’s Basilica, i’ve never visited any megachurch in Europe and the churches […]
Japanese geological research firm Oyo will launch this month a handheld radar system that rescuers can use to […]
Edward Burtynsky‘s pictures of remnant and newly established zones of Chinese industrialization. Manufacturing #17, Deda Chicken Processing Plant, […]
I thought i had trendy friends in Berlin. People i could trust to inform me when an event […]
TurntablistPC is an electronic and mechanical hybrid of turntable (gramophone) and an old pc. Several versions of TurntablistPC […]
Dynamic Terrain is an experimental robotic surface that aims to demonstrate a possible future of an interactive system […]
Hiroshi Tanaka has developed an electrolysis device that simulates, he claims, the effect of ageing in wines. In […]