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The result of Design Within Reach Champagne Chair Contest are online. Entrants had to craft the chairs using […]
Geckos feet can stick to almost any surface while remaining mysteriously clean of dirt and sand. “In fact […]
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Rotundus AB in Sweden has developed a spherical robot. By moving an internal mass, the robot run in […]
Tiny exploding capsules could be used to deliver targeted chemotherapy directly to tumours, without affecting healthy cells. The […]
Core77 has a report about its trip to NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Winter Show. Among its favourites is Fish-byte.net, […]
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Subscribers to “This Mobile Will Change Your Life” will receive SMS orders they must carry out immediately. Orders […]
microRevolt projects investigate the dawn of sweatshops in early industrial capitalism to inform the current crisis of global […]
Three years ago, Rotterdam-based architects bureau MVRDV imagined a pig city to change farming production and solve problems […]
Taking in account that pigs can be ideal pets, it might be time to question the idea of […]
David Small‘s Illuminated Manuscript explores new types of reading in tune with human perceptual abilities. Projected typography is […]
Five historic waterfront buildings in Red Hook (New York) will be razed to make way for a parking […]
Habitgram, by Montreal-based artist Beewoo, is a surveillance coat that the visitor is invited to wear. Inside the […]
“Waiter!” (Theres a fly in my soup), by product designer Tobias Wong is a simple soup bowl that […]
A few days ago, I saw this Humiliator , a comfortable gag that may be worn for extended […]
«Sensorama», invented by Morton Heilig in 1962, offered multi-sensorial impressions of a ten-minute-long motorcycle ride through New York. […]
Gail Wight‘s Rodentia Chamber Music is a small ensemble of five transparent chamber instruments. They are inhabited by […]
The Playbot calendar, made by scientists for scientists, stars robots in insinuating positions and displaying their “private areas.” […]
Jiwon Kim, Steven M. Seitz (University of Washington) and Maneesh Agrawala (Microsoft Research) are working on the Video-Based […]
Alf Linney, a specialist in facial reconstruction, and artist Alexa Wright have designed Alter Ego which allows people […]
Yoshiyuki Sankai, from the University of Tsukuba in Japan, has developed a 15-kilogram neuro-commanded robot suit to “bring […]
Green Cycle, by Taiwan-based designers Wei-Ran Lee and Bo-Chin Chu, is a memo paper pad that comes with […]
You help Tsunami victims by donating airline miles to The Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, OxFam, Unicef and […]
Biojewelry , developed by Tobie Kerridge and Nikki Stott, combines biotech and design to give a new emphasis […]
Saturday, by Chicago-based artist Sabrina Raaf, is a sound based artwork that participants experience through a glove. WIth […]
Two couples (and up to 30 accomplices) have been charged in a price-switching scheme that allegedly defrauded Wal-Mart […]
Chronos Chromos Concrete, a project by Chris Glaister, Afshin Mehin and Tomas Rosen at the RCA Innovation Unit […]
ScreamBody, by design engineer and artist Kelly Dobson (the one who designed Blendie), is a wearable space for […]
Cyberzoo, by Argentinean artist Gustavo Romano, is a virtual zoo where it is possible to experience the wildest […]
GeneMusiK is an experimental biological music mixing and generating system developed by Nigel Helyer, under the aegis of […]
Another one in my obsessive list of interactive tables… Lumisight Table, aka Interactive View-Dependent Display Table Surrounded by […]
Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor, Ravin Balakrishnan at the University of Toronto have developed a system that allows for […]
Ledusoid, by AKAirway the big bubble specialist, is an inflatable chandelier made of 350 LEDs sealed in plastic. […]
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in Japan developed a technology that combines RFID tags and cameras and makes elevators wait […]
An expanding number of hospital systems in the USA are adopting “enhanced intensive care” technology — known as […]
1up.com has posted the second in an article series called “Child’s Play”, where they invite kids to test […]
Girltron digital images, by Kirsty Boyle, provocatively mix doll parts and transformer-style toys to create a new species. […]
Internet games and chat rooms have replaced urban playgrounds as venues for social interaction. In Zona de Recreo […]
Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle were angry when the California Supreme Court stopped gay weddings just one day […]
British design engineer Glynne Bowsher and his team, British Steam Car Challenge, have almost finished building a super-fast […]