These Japanese guys, they know how to sell you toilets!
One can often sum up the “Social architecture” – the spatial / temporal organisation of everyday life- to: […]
You loved the Scratch-and-Sniff pants? Here’s a wallpaper version developed by Alex Schweder. Still-life of Beefsteak and Cheese […]
Toshiba has developed two robots which “approach the concept of a life support partner.” One of the new […]
Covers of Super-8 films. In german for added mystery. Via Papel Continuo.
The Lumiloop reactive bracelet, by Elise Co and Nikita Pashenkov, is a modular system of program and display […]
The INDEX 2005 jury has announced the 100 finalists for the INDEX Awards. Among the nominees: Project Unplugged, […]
Found it quite disturbing. Via wtbw.
GORI means an open hook in Korean and it is often used to represent human relationships. GORI.Node Garden […]
Ben Hanbury‘ Recycled TV explores the ever changing copyright laws and Creative Commons. The video installation takes two […]
The classic teapot 3D demo is traditionally used to test realism across 3D engine features. GrafikDemo, by Niklas […]
This Citroen CX Penthouse prototype was introduced at the Paris Auto Salon in 1980, it came with six […]
The first patient to be fitted with a device that “turbocharges” an ailing heart is recovering in a […]
A prototype of R2D2 has been built by researchers at the MediaLab from the University of Pisa who […]
If you’re in the Cambridge, MA, area, don’t miss the seamless show to be held tomorrow. It will […]
myBio dolls are a collection of educational dolls exploring the emergence of biological hybrids in biotechnologies, and our […]
MAMEintosh makes Macintosh®-based retro arcade gaming. Via Core77.
BrainMirror is an interactive installation where the image of the your brain appears mixed with your mirror image, […]
The Virtual Raft Project features characters stuck in small communities on three “virtual islands” – desktop computer screens. […]
The Square-eyes shoe is fitted with a unique insole that records the amount of exercise a child does […]
Patients at St Mary’s hospital in London are being seen by “Sister Mary” a medical robot which allows […]
locket is a Dashboard widget that provides an ambient monitor for a single iChat user on your buddy […]
Inspired by Finnish architect Antti Lovag (see his own Palais Bulles) in the mid 70’s, the Bubble House […]
Jennifer Bove’s thesis project at IDII explores the changing role of the mobile phone as a personal device, […]
The Associate Assistant of Departmental Operation is a 3D virtual office environment that runs on a game engine […]
Sonic Fabric is made of textile woven from 50% pre-recorded audiotape and 50% cotton. Originally designed as a […]
Ellen Hackl Fagan and Konrad Kaczmarek’s Reverse Color Organ (RCO) enables viewers to explore synaesthesia, or sensory blending. […]
While at DesignMai last week, I saw the Lightable that Julian Appelius and Fabien Dumas designed back in […]
The Haptic Gloves allow their wearers to create musical compositions by linking hands together. Each participants wears the […]
Collection of print soap advertisements in the USA. 1838-1998. Via Bibi’s box.
Sparks is an ambient social networking interface that uses light to create an ambient interface designed to facilitate […]
Mirror_SPACE, by Brigitta Zics, is a virtual mirror which projects a modified, virtual image of the viewer onto […]
The RadioActive project, by Aaron Zinman and Judith Donath, aims at enabling a forum for asynchronous discussion using […]
In the Visual Code Recognition for Camera-Equipped Mobile Phones project, Michael Rohs and Beat Gfeller at the Federal […]
“Can television one day be something completely different from the content the entertainment industry is currently serving us? […]
This one has just been added to my I want one list. For the INCITE/RCA collaboration, Jon Arden […]
Paula Levine’s Baghdad San Francisco imagines the effects upon San Francisco, had the bombs which fell on Baghdad […]
The Tampere University of Technology is working on machine washable and wirelessly rechargeable wearable technology. They prototyped a […]
A team of scientists led by Matsuhiko Nishizawa, at Tohoku University, have developed a fuel cell that runs […]
Open the Blind questions our voyeurism and desires related to peeping. It also explores new kinds of interfaces […]