The HangOut is a 2.9 meters diameter housing module designed –by Vancouver-based Tom Chud– to be suspended from […]
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As the European probe Huygens hits the hydrocarbon clouds of of Saturn’s mysterious moon, Titan, it will deliver […]
Here’s the interactive table of the day. RAT, the Rogue Ambience Table, was designed in 2001 by KDR […]
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Textron, by IAMAS student Yosuke Kawamura, is a sewing machine that generates sound and images when the user […]
Japanese researchers have turned a humanoid industrial machine into a master of Japanese traditional dance in a bid […]
Scientists at the Centre for Science of the Mind (Oxford University) will carry out experiments on hundreds of […]
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Design students at the University of the Art in Berlin were asked to create an interactive extension for […]
The Table: Childhood 1984-2001, by Max Dean and Raffaello D’ Andrea, is a robotic table that selectively interacts […]
Entering schedules and assignments into a computer can be tedious — especially when the act interrupts a conversation. […]
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics is the largest collection of Post World War II graphics […]
Scientists from University of Nottingham (UK) and the Institute of Laser and Information Technology in Troitsk, near Moscow […]
Yoshifumi Kitamura and his team at the Human Interface Engineering Laboratory, in Osaka University, is investigating varieties of […]
In May Dutch company Secure Internet Machines (SIM) will introduce the simPC. Made to ease old people’s fear […]
Stockholm’s Umbilical Design, a firm specializing in designs for space and extreme environments, has been asked by Xero […]
Here’s another interactive table. A particularly gorgeous one. For an exhibition in the Jewish Museum, in Berlin, new […]
The Music Toys, developed by Tod Machover at the MIT Media Lab, are very simple-looking toys that are […]
First part on my revenge over Nicolas! Tableportation, by Interactive Design Institute (Ivrea, Italy) laureates Giorgio Olivero and […]
Nicolas has a great list of interactive tables. I’m a sucker for interactive tables and was deeply offended […]
Social Prototypes, by Toronto-based artist Victoria Scott, is a group of five mechanically driven “handtools”, which are electronically […]
Hop Step Junk, by Japanese artist Sei Matsumura, is an installation which catches up people’s footstep. According to […]
Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris, is a scientific lab specializing in surprising experiments in robotics. One of […]
British TV presenters Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan had to take care of a baby robot for a […]
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits have developed a wireless ball and player location system that […]
Barcelona-based French artist Thomas Charveriat creates installations that use GPS, SMS, video, sound, electronic data to interact with […]
Among his final projects for last semester, Kuan Huang, an NYU’s ITP student, has created Virtual Instrument and […]
Ivy by Dutch designer Joris Laaman (who had designed a decorative radiator made of concrete and is one […]
txOom is a responsive PlaySpace, where the participants are invited to actively take part in transforming the environment; […]
Activity Wallpaper , by research assistant at the Viktoria Institute (Sweden) Tobias Skog, explores how a place can […]
Fancy a $3,250 Canadian trip to the edge of the Arctic, sleeping five nights in an igloo that […]
“Digital Cubes”, by Simon Schiessel, is a “dominoes” game played with electronic cubes. Placed next to one another, […]
The Choice installation by environmental artist Kerry Morrison and botanist Alicia Prowse highlights the human factor in changing […]
Moments of Grey, by Tasmanian artist and researcher Robin Petterd, are prototype responsive objects which evoke those found […]
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology claim to have fathered the world’s smartest robot able […]
Florentine avant-garde architecture collective Superstudio was at the heart of the architectural and design avant garde in the […]
Tokyo-based architecture and design company nendo has an impressive portfolio. You wouldn’t tell by the look of the […]
Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor at USC, has devised a robot that, guided by architect’s computerized drawings, can squirt […]
You have till Monday 10 to nominate your favorite weblogs for the fifth Bloggie awards. If you don’t […]
By adopting one of derstrudel ‘s robots, you accompany the creation of the robot and the projects it […]
A wireless birthing simulator, designed by students at Johns Hopkins University, allows the doctor to know precisely how […]
As researchers develop more sophisticated protheses for locomotion, research has also focused on phantom limb sensations of amputees […]