“almost certified (grade A noise for non-discerning consumers)”, by Kelli Cain and Brian Crabtree, is a mechanical sound […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland are unraveling the circuitry in an eel’s spinal cord […]
Rio de Janeiro has a Christmas tree floating on a lagoon and London’s Tate Britain has just unveiled […]
Seattle-based company GloVentures plans to release early 2005 Glofun RayGun, a GPS ghost-hunting game for mobile phones. A […]
Spinne , by Laura Beloff and Erich Berger (the duo from the Seven Mile Boots), is a networked […]
Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized the “ornithopter”, a self-powered flying machine which mechanical flapping wings […]
Jean-Luc Marchina ‘s Tongs installation plays on the idea of “interactive cinema”. In front of the visitor are […]
Brooklyn-based Michelle Rosenberg modifies portable electronic headphones. Some of them allow listeners to share the same sounds; others […]
The woman inside Camille Utterback’s Shaken snow globe responds to the physical gesture of being shaken. The device […]
Arofish is a London-based stencil and graffiti artist who spent three months travelling through Iraq and Palestine, “painting […]
Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, created in 1917, has been named the world’s most influential piece of modern art by […]
Dr Karl Swann, and a team at the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff, claim to […]
Spansih artists Carlos Corpa and Ana María García Serrano got a third prize at the Art & Artificial […]
NASA considers farming a matter of survival for future long-term space missions. But who will care for crops […]
The scenario of the Mobile Confessional is as follows: When you see the vehicle (called projectCAR) while stuck […]
Circular Breathing , by Scott Snibbe, is a personal breath recorder. You breath and blow into the mouthpiece […]
Breathing Chaos is a new installation work by media artist Sachiko Kodama. A small, black mountain grows organically […]
Danish designer Alex Soza‘s Bionic Jacket registers whether you’re cold or sweating. It reacts at low temperatures by […]
Already 7,00 p.m and I haven’t blogged any “wearable” so far. Here you go: A first mask from […]
Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman (with Gerfried Stocker, Erwin Reitböck, Horst Hörtner, Dietmar Offenhuber, Christopher Lindinger, Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth, […]
You love to play table tennis, but have no partner? Just install Butterfly Amicus 3000 , the table […]
HERE, by Jason Wilson and the members of (N.I.N.E), is a pervasive game allowing 2-16 people to get […]
The Paragraphie installation, by Manon De Pauw, has a very low-tech appearance: a chair, a table with used […]
York University (Canada) Prof. Vincent Tao has developed a satellite mapping technology that enables users to visually zoom […]
At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, neurobiologist Kenji Doya is using “cyber rodents” to […]
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream is reportedly about to take advantage of a new “media opportunity” in Amsterdam. […]
Having been awarded the title of “worse golf player in the galaxy” at a Fore competition during the […]
Perversely Interactive System, by Lynn Hughes and Simon Laroche, puts the spectator into relation with a virtual other […]
Students at the University of Navarre in Spain are developing a device which analyses the brain waves of […]
WALK is a public intervention by Constantin Demner taking place in the area of Spitalfields, East London. Frames […]
Sound Barrier, by Maia Urstad, is a sound installation of some 130 CD-and cassette radios assembled as a […]
The Icehotel is re-built every winter from tons of snow and ice, in the village of Jukkasjârvi in […]
“RoboRecital” features no human performers, just four robots: GuitarBot, a self-playing guitar; an automated pipe organ; a Yamaha […]
Visa card is discarding the traditional rectangular format to present an array of novelty credit cards in the […]
Accenture Technology Labs in Chicago are working on a “caring plant” equipped with microphones, voice recognition software and […]