An expanding number of hospital systems in the USA are adopting “enhanced intensive care” technology — known as […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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The radiogrades, by French artist France Cadet, is a morphological, annatomical and biological study of a new animal […]
Spanish researchers Clara Boj and Diego Díaz are working on the Free Network Visible Network , an augmented […]
Kent Norman, a cognitive psychologist at the Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes at the University of […]
Scientists from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa (Italy), found the ragworm, which lives in seashores, could inspire a […]
NOEMI*, developed by the Parisian collective Music2eye, is a musical sculpture system that creates a musical dialog between […]
The “Millefiore Effect” group (Jessica Findley, Margot Jacobs and Ralph Borland) invites people to play at conflict. In […]
TV Cream made a top 100 toys from the 70’s. Here’s number 15, the “Six Million Dollar Man”, […]
The upcoming 2005 world expo in Aichi (March 25 – September 25) will be a showcase of Japan’s […]
In the Scramble Suit * installation, by Finnish artist Hanna Haaslahti, your own image in a real-time projection […]
The murder conviction of an Iowa man was overturned last year on the basis that the new “brain […]
Communication Grill Chang-tei, by Japanese artists Kou Sueda and Kouji Ishii, is an electric cooker controlled by a […]
The Dialog table –designed by Marek Walczak, Michael McAllister, Jakub Segen and Peter Kennard– utilizes digital technologies to […]
In Makoto Ishiwata’s Vacuum Packing! the consumer becomes voluntarily a vaccum packed product. After donning a baseball catcher’s […]
r.e.a.l.sound , by Dutch sound artists Radboud Mens and Aldje van Meer, is an interactive installation combining image […]
One day small commercial aircraft may have their own huge parachute to help them land smoothly if needed. […]
Popular Science has listed a series of gadgets that promise a better help for the EMS callers. A […]
MIRROR ‘s researchers have studied how robots can learn to communicate by imitating humans’ gestures. They first observed […]
Everything’s nice with American rice, by Sydney-based artist Nigel Helyer, proposes, in a playful but critical way, a […]
Van Den Puup, from elite designer launched, a few weeks (month?) ago, a “crusade against the big stupid […]
In the back of his southern Alaska garden, Carlos Owens is building an 18-foot-tall steel mecha, an exoskeleton […]
Crucifix NG (Next Generation), by Tisch student Elliott Malkin, is a battery-operated crucifix that can be affixed on […]
The ultrasound of therapy, by Dutch sound artists Staalplaat Soundsytem, is an installation consisting of 7 individual sound […]
Male fish that are growing eggs have been found in the Potomac River (the main source of drinking […]
Near Berlin, a former zeppelin hangar has been transformed into Europe’s largest covered leisure resort (five million cubic […]
On four wheels, the iBot (Individual Balancing Optimized Transporter) wheelchair bumps up kerbstones. On two wheels it raises […]
Queen’s University ’s Human Media Lab (HML) has created an “attentive” office cubicle that blocks noise and visual […]
On March 1, for the upcoming Geneva Motor Show, Swiss car designer and solution specialist Rinspeed and plastic […]
The 2 and a half meter length Zizi the Affectionate Couch, by the art-science team Stephen Barrass, Linda […]
More magic carpets… Brian Knep‘s Healing Series are interactive floor pieces that change in response to visitors. When […]
Petra Trefzger ‘s Flying carpet is decorated with geometric patterns that swirl around your feet as you walk […]
Adding an artistic twist to the Origami-folding robot , the Oribots begin as small, compact units, and then, […]
We already knew that video games calm kids before surgery more effective than tranquilizers or parental presence. During […]
Groups in Germany and Austria have launched campaigns protesting the commercialization of Christmas. The main target is Santa, […]
Virsual, the digital rocking horse, created by Melbourne-based, multi-media collectiveENESS, is a wireless rocking horse equipped with its […]