machinaZOIS, by Davide Grassi, is a modified pinball machine that explores the possibilities of raising fundings for contemporary […]
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DIY instructions to turn the IKEA table “Lack” into Coffee Cup , a soccer field for your living […]
Interactive designer Toke Oliver Barters (DK/UK) has developed the RGB Player (RGB stand for red, green and blue), […]
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American artist Michael Rakowitz’s paraSITE project proposed to take advantage of the exterior ventilation systems on existing architecture […]
A video of a Nintendo DS “jammming band”. Either Nintendo paid alot of money for a great viral […]
Last week or so, the story that researchers at the University of Warwick, in association with PVAXX and […]
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Project Runway is a reality series in which twelve fashion designers compete for a New York Fashion Week […]
Engineers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California are working on a smart phone that can detect […]
Shane Farritor and Dmitry Oleynikov, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, have designed two tiny camera-carrying robots that can […]
LegShocker , created by Cologne-based art group FUR, is a painful interface for PlayStation2, in particular football/soccer games. […]
Dutch designer Isabelle Lejin designed an 8-shaped goldfish racetrack because she felt sorry for the goldfish, long distance […]
James Patten, a Ph.D. candidate in the Tangible Media Group at MIT’s Media Lab, has invented the Corporate […]
Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London has a unique and especially grotesque interpretation of the nativity scene. Football […]
Tokyo-based NTT Communications Corp. is testing a service that sends out smells according to data received over the […]
Fernando Orellana ‘s Unending Enclosure features IR-equipped robots imprisoned in wooden columns, living in constant fear and distrust. […]
VectraSense Technologies, an MIT spin-off company, has developed a computerized shoe product �Verb for Shoe� that provides computerized […]
The Infrasense installation, by Montreal-based robotics artist Robert Saucier and artistic group KIT, uses the idea of the […]
Since the toaster, mixer, micorwave oven and battery charger have not gone wireless yet, French design group Hotchoz […]
Dutch designer Frank Tjepkema and interior designer Janneke Hooymans have designed, outside of Amsterdam, Praq a restaurent that […]
Benoît Maubrey is currently showing in Berlin the Audio Igloo, an acoustic space made from disguarded electroacoustic junk. […]
Upmarket stationer The Bureau (Covent Garden, London) is the first retailer to use the Interactive Shop Window (ISW), […]
Cambridge-based company Hypertag has developed a point and click system. When a mobile phone user sees an hypertag, […]
This key-chain radio station broadcasts the sounds you make through regular FM radio and shares them with people […]
Universal Whistling Machine, by Canadian artists Marc Böhlen and J.T. Rinker, is an attempt at developing a communication […]
Tokyo-based architect Masaki Endoh teamed up with Masahiro Ikeda to design a double apartment on a site at […]
Scott Hamel, who lost the use of his legs 27 years ago, volunteered for a brain wave project […]
Dogs with paralyzed hind legs could walk again courtesy of a shot of a chemical cousin of antifreeze […]
First, there was SoundSlam , a punching bag with 12 pressure sensors, a global acceleration sensor and a […]
Ghost in the Cave (created by KTH, Stockholm; Octaga/ Telenor, Oslo; DIST InfoMus Lab, University of Genoa; DEI, […]
After NEC’s biodegradable corn-based laptops and Pioneer blue-ray optical disk made of corn starch, Victor (JVC) has developed […]
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Standards and Double Standards” installation consists of 4 surveillance cameras, a tracking system and fifty fastened […]
When Maartje Lammers and Boris Zeisser, principals of the Rotterdam-based practice 24H Architecture, bought an 18th-century fisherman’s cottage […]
In the UK, holiday retailer Thomson is now offering a virtual holiday experience with a 3D full-sensory guided […]
Concrete Music, by the DSP Syndicate , is a music processor that gives life to songs. Instead of […]
“almost certified (grade A noise for non-discerning consumers)”, by Kelli Cain and Brian Crabtree, is a mechanical sound […]
An interactive work by Wafaa Bilal and Shawn Lawson gives an astonishing twist to Eduard Manet’s painting A […]
London-based artist Stephen Rumney has set up a virtual gallery where art lovers can buy a piece of […]
Toyots’a “i-unit” aims at uniting the driver and vehicle to expand human abilities and possibilities. The upright position […]
Grand Thieves’ Audio Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, game of theft, prostitution, drugs, and beautifully animated racist depictions […]
Mines continue to maim and kill between 15,000 and 20,000 people each year according to UNICEF. Around 90 […]