Bordergames, by La Fiambrera Obrera (Spain), isn’t yet a game. It is platform that allows young Maghrebis to […]
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Ku: iyashikei-net by Urico Fujii and Ann Poochareon is a networked crying sculpture that allows people to communicate […]
A new German online game, gen.ethix, asks players to make decisions about the future of biotechnology. All the […]
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Shigeru Ban’s temporary museum has taken up Pier 54 (Manhattan’s west side) to house the Ashes and Snow […]
An artificial court has been especially laid for champions Roger Federer and Andre Agassi on the heliport of […]
Bits on Location was the diploma thesis of Aram Bartholl. This research attempted to connect, through a series […]
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The Globe-Jungle Project, by Yasuhiro Suzuki, is inspired by the “Globe-Jungle”, a round climbing structure that was very […]
Engineers from the Institute of Infocomm Research and the National University of Singapore are developing robots that can […]
Gary Look, a researcher at MIT, is looking to incorporate landmarks into automatically-generated directions using a software that […]
Richard Wool, at the University of Delaware, wants to replace petroleum-based components in circuit boards with chicken feathers. […]
A marine biology page documents the recent discovery of a new kind of squid. The creatures, named exocells, […]
Brainbar is a mechanical bar that mixes drinks adapted to the visitor’s brainwaves. The customer wears a sensor-studded […]
Repository of microphones with pictures, comparative recordings, links chronicling golden years and gallery of celebs with mics. William […]
Brainscore, by Darij Kreuh and Davide Grassi, features two performers in front of a screen where computer-generated events […]
Back in December, Francis Hwang offered the Unauthorized iPod U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition up for auction on […]
RedTacton is a Human Area Networking technology developed by NTT Docomo, that uses the surface of the human […]
Israeli company Fertiligent has devised a disposable pump to improve the effectiveness of a treatment for infertility for […]
Game Music, by Vladimir Todorovic, threats a video game space as an environment for music production, sampling, processing, […]
Telephony is an installation developed in 2000 by Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead that allows gallery visitors to […]
Uk-based company Smart Holograms produces holograms which can be used as biosensors. Prototypes have already been made for […]
A team at Medical College of Georgia have made a mouse with 70% more muscle mass than normal, […]
Just as archeologists excavate layers of debris from past civilizations to inform their histories, Jetsam – part of […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has compiled a list of gadget “species” under threat of extinction. Endangered gizmos highlights […]
I’ve just spent half an hour (at least) admiring Grafik Dynamo, a net art work by Kate Armstrong […]
A collection of Japanese warning signs. This one is “Do not feed the goats and sheeps with paper […]
Scientists have identified the chemical emitted by female German cockroaches, aka the “biggest pest worldwide”, that brings males […]
Reverse Engineers, an exhibition that takes place on Feb. 19 – March 19, at the Carnegie Art Center, […]
Scandinavian Design (via dezain) has snapshots and reports from Stockholm Furniture Fair 2005. In their selection, I spotted […]
While the most advanced robots, including Asimo, require a multitude of motors and sensors in each joint and […]
The Think-a-Tron was introduced by Hasbro in the 1960s as a computer for kids. Dubbed “The Machine That […]
“The introduction of foreign genes into plants has revolutionized the study of plant biology and provided new avenues […]
Popular Science (via Caveat lector ) has a cover story about Robert Bigelow project to build a 330-cubic-meter […]
The Pentagon is spending $127 billion on the Future Combat Systems programme to build heavily-armed robots in the […]
Entrepreneurs who brought foreign videos and films to Russian’s rural hinterlands where they set up make-shift movie houses […]
Kami-robo are paper robot designed to fight. First created by Tomohiro Yasui, they measure 15 to 20 centimeters […]
Jin-Yo Mok and Ahmi Wolf‘s Light Bead Curtain is a musical installation that can be played by touch. […]
Brendan Walker, researcher at the RCA in London, is working on a machine that can measure the experience […]
3 minutes², by French art collective Electric Shadow, recreates an extremely reduced living unit that can extend beyond […]
M-city provides an application for constructing stencil cities on your own, from the same elements as in the […]
Engineer Sanjay Joshi and professor of psychology Jeffrey Schank at UC Davis have recorded the behavior of rat […]