A video of ‘wearable computers’ on show at WPC expo in Tokyo. Some of them seem amazing: – […]
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Transparency International, a non-governmental organisation fighting corruption worldwide, has just released its Corruption Perceptions Index that ranks countries […]
Maisonneuve has a fascinating story about ethnoburbs, the new suburbs for middle-class immigrants where strip malls are filled […]
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The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts funds cutting-edge technologies and concepts, some of them sound crazy but might […]
Brand Marketers had created the T-shirts with built-in television sets. Now, there is Chibi Vision, a U.S.-patented brand […]
Japanese company CITIZEN has developed a “wearable security tool” called CertifGate, which looks somewhat similar to the Active […]
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Video game Urban Resolve, developed by a division of the U.S. Department of Defense, is a combat simulation […]
The Patriotic Art series by Your Art Here are four art billboards displayed on privately-owned buildings in Indianapolis. […]
Vagamundo is a mobile public art project, designed by Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga, for on the street interaction to […]
Psychiatrists at Harvard are testing the “Memory Pill”, a new drug to erase bad memories. Harvard researchers are […]
In Minority Report, Tom Cruise plays a detective who steps into an immersive computer environment to solve crimes. […]
The BIX Media Façade by Jan and Tim Edler of the realities:united architects from Berlin has been nominated […]
P2P Politics website enables you to select video clips that best express your view of the U.S. presidential […]
For a few years now, Birmingham artist Modified Toy Orchestra a.k.a. Brian Duffy makes electronic music that derives […]
Last weekend, the Buckeye Bullet, an electric land speed vehicle designed and built by The Ohio State University’s […]
Qatar is set to substitute robots for jockeys in camel races after having faced protests over the trafficking […]
Indian clothing companies have introduced a range of smart garment for hard-working executives. The “IQ clothes” are shirts […]
Last month opened a large-scale exhibition at “The Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art,” curated by New York-based artist […]
The WWF performed blood tests on fourteen European Environment and Health Ministers in June 2004 and found out […]
Yesterday, I blogged about Big Brother in US supermarket carts, now he’s arriving in Japanese shopping baskets. NTT […]
Theodore Berger , a biomedical engineer at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), wants to understand nerve […]
New York-based Massive advertising network is launching the first ad-serving network for video games. The system will enable […]
Chinese scientists are paying up to $45,000 a gram to place botanical species —including garden vegetables, medicinal herbs […]
Sam Mansel, a teenager from from Milford Haven (Whales, UK), is using skills learned on a PlayStation to […]
British supermarket chain Asda has warned its staff to be extra vigilant in spotting youths buying eggs, traditionally […]
Stop & Shop is testing 1,000 carts with wireless computers to allow customers to e-mail their grocery list […]
A research project, funded by Darpa, the Defense Department’s mad science division, is looking at ways to make […]
A University College London study found out that if using computers to find information about their chronic disease […]
Jelle Atema, from Boston University and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, wants to “take over” a […]
UK medical authorities say they might give the go ahead to a scientific experiment that would result in […]
Lucy Dunne is working on the Massage Shirts project which look at “the relationship between personality and desire […]
After the record-breaking heat experienced in Tokyo this summer, the metropolitan government is pursuing a number of projects […]
Scientists at the University of Washington are studying how magnetized-beam plasma propulsion, or mag-beam, could enable quick trips […]
A “biomedical” underwear has been designed by Philips to monitor the heartbeat of the wearer and warn emergency […]
In an interview,Ray Kurzweil, who helped invent the IT present, explains how humans fit into the IT future: […]
There’s a story all over the web about a research showing a selected group of people able to […]
As some of you have noticed, the blog is gone “amuck”. We have a new server, the last […]
Tad Hirsch, from MIT’s Media Lab and TxtMob, has adapted a desktop version of the iSee Project for […]
Last year, sound artist Erik Bünger created “Let them sing it for you” for the internet-based art channel […]
Robot are more and more able to emulate humans and animals. The Humanoid Robotics Laboratory in Austria believes […]