Turkish movie posters. Via Bibi’s Box.
Author: Regine
Maybe not brand new for some of you, but as i’ve just started an investigation on AI in […]
Even things we’d likely to perceive as nature, like the trees on the street, are carefully planned and […]
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Sonic Constructs is a sound installation that uses Lego Mindstorms robots as musical instruments. Visitors participate by constructing […]
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German genius of lightning Ingo Maurer is auctioning its own Porca Cina lamp with benefits going to Médecins […]
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The Dustbunnies, by Stijn Schiffeleers and Hendrik Leper from Boutique Vizique, is a colony of seven shapes that […]
A simple wave of your hand might let you turn the TV on and off, change channels or […]
Pieceoplastic has an excellent review of Ars Electronica. You know, one of those broad roundup i’m too lazy […]
Fujitsu is to start selling a new service robot called enon (which stands for “exciting nova on network.”) […]
Li Zhensheng’s photographs of the Cultural Revolution, from 1964 to 1976. Also worth a look at are the […]
The iconography of San Sebastian, from the XIVth Century till now. Picture above is “Muhammad Ali as a […]
Carrie Bodle has turned MIT Building 54 into a giant speaker, resonating with sounds from the upper level […]
Maybe inspired by GUFRAM’s Pratone seat, Schlafgras (sleeping grass) offers a styrofoam landscape that can be customized to […]
A series of i-wish-i-could-go events: Founders of Bioteknica will conduct live surgery as part of a cabaret benefit […]
A spacecraft skin is being developed that assesses the severity of any damage it suffers from space debris […]
Stefan Eberstadt‘s Rucksack Haus (backpack house) is a sculpture but could also be a fully functional dwelling; the […]
I don’t like to make self-promotion but as several people have kindly asked me to attend events they […]
Superstar is a multiplayer photo-based game designed for Ubicomp 2005, Tokyo. The game is free, and open for […]
Designboom / Cow by NSR “teenage furniture” design competition. The results are out. First prize is irresistible even […]
Now that Europe seems to open itself to the joys of capsule dwelling, Japan’s love affair with the […]
In Peau d’Ane, a young princess orders impossible wedding gifts from her father in order to avoid marrying […]
The University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo has developed Augmented Coliseum, an amazing (just have a look at the […]
Packs of fags. Picture above is a packet of mythic Belgian cigs, the Royal Tigra. Via a best […]
With the Facial Control for Electric Guitar project, David Merrill mapped the output of a real-time face-tracker onto […]
Here’s some notes from Jens Hauser’s talk at the Hybrid Identities symposium, Ars Electronica, on Saturday September 9. […]
Another one spotted at Ars Electronica. The Singing Skeleton Pilot consists of a “skeleton guitar” you must strap […]
The sound installation PAUSE is made of 5 hammocks connected to each other at the center by a […]
Honda has developed the first airbags for motorcycles. The airbag, which inflates after sensors detect an oncoming crash, […]
Kayagomori is a pretty fascinating concept by Daisuke Uriu and Naohito Okude from KEIO University in Japan. This […]
A team from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) have been given the go-ahead to create a […]
Nomadic Yooff is a piece of luggage/furniture designed for teenagers of divorced parents with more than one place […]
Shimizu has worked with the Nakagawa Laboratory on a system for museums that uses visible light to convey […]
A team at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a power-generating backpack. Dubbed “Suspended-load Backpack”, the device converts […]
Jiacong “jay” Yan‘s Whisper, a bed of freshly cut Cala Lilies gives us the chance to get an […]
The Ladder is a mixed-reality installation. The room is plain apart from a window, cut high into the […]
Gemini Residence, by Dutch architects MVRDV and Danish office Jensen+Jørgensen+Wohlfeldt, is in fact two former grain silos on […]
A digital device to be launched today in the UK apparently allows “addressable advertising” – only showing commercials […]
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A few notes taken during the Net Vision forum at Ars Electronica, on Monday, September 5. Image The […]