The Fruitfly farm is Laura Beloff‘s second piece in the same series as The Head, a “wearable sculpture” […]
Author: Regine
Alison Lewis has launched a brilliant website: SWITCH, an online DIY show where she and her friends focus […]
Dr Hasan Alam, at Massachusetts General Hospital, says patients could soon be put into a state of suspended […]
advertising
By the 2010s, Korea is expecting to see security robots assisting police and the military, patrolling the neighborhoods, […]
PlayPals are wireless figurines with their electronic accessories that allow children aged 5-8 to communicate between remote locations. […]
Foster and Partners‘ Philology Library in Berlin utilizes decades of research into the use of active and passive […]
social
Toshiba will launch in early 2008 the world’s first elevators controlled by magnetic levitation. The company will employ […]
In bed with fever and a super flu. I hate that of course, but as this guy says… […]
Ether Beat are compatible garments that sense, process, transmit and receive the ECG wavelength. A singlet (Under Beat) […]
Stanley Ruiz‘ barong analog is a wearable electronic sound generator, based on the concept of modular synthesizers. Still […]
Lightbulb explores and blends two phenomena: the stabilization of unstable systems using feedback, and wireless power transmission. Feedback […]
Synthetic biologists are designing and manufacturing “complicated biological circuitry:” bacteria that blink on and off like Christmas tree […]
Beggar, a robot for the materially deprived is constructed entirely from donated old computer hardware and spare parts […]
As i’m reading, obsessing and blogging about the quest for a robotic world mainly in Korea and Japan, […]
Ian Bogost and Persuasive Games have just released Disaffected!, a parodical critique of working life at FedEx Kinko’s, […]
Bibi made my day. She has created a playlist with 60’s French pop videoclips, some from Françoise Hardy, […]
Philips has developed a common language for describing eperiences within an Ambient Intelligence environment: the Physical Markup Language […]
Audio/Viscera explore ways in which sound can be treated as an architectural material. The user wears a helmet […]
Takehiko Sanada‘s Prefab Coats can be worn as coats or transformed into blankets, sleeping bags or even emergency […]
“All visitors are shown their host’s model kennels, where he breeds magnificent Alsatians. Some of his pedigree pets […]
Finding Dutch eating manners and tastes rather gross*, Japanese graduate from Design Academy Eindhoven Kuniko Maeda decided to […]
Comments have been down for too long. We’re trying a new spam filter now. So please, don’t hesitate […]
In Knifeandfork‘s immersive installation, 5 ’til 12, visitors are invited to watch four characters, on four monitors, as […]
Animaatiokone (Animation Machine) is an installation that turns you into a master clay animator. It’s built of a […]
The Conversation Table reflects on a type of social dynamics that takes place at tables during conversations. Who […]
In 1994, ART+COM presented Terravision, an installation that enabled users to navigate in a 3D model of the […]
New York architect Evan Douglis explores the generation of changeable environments supported by digital techniques. Auto Braids / […]
Capturing the Wumpus is a variation of Gregory Yob‘s game Hunt the Wumpus. Performers play a game in […]
This is for the mysterious three readers (three? i might be optimistic) i might have in groovy Piemonte. […]
British scientists are seeking permission to create hybrid embryos by fusing human cells with rabbit eggs. If granted […]
Something to add to my list of “I want one of those.” VistaCrafts RFIQin, available in Japan, comes […]
Gemma Shusterman‘s Endangered Senses project was inspired by our tendency to equate our perceptions to those of the […]
Postvinyl, by Mathias Fuchs in collaboration with Oliver Farshi, Andy Odia and Michelle Jay, enables DJs to scratch […]
A team of researchers is working on a nano-size battery that one day could be implanted in the […]
I sometimes wonder what’s happening in my bedroom when i close the door and leave Cloclo alone there. […]
The arrival of rock’n’roll brought a major change to the social art of dancing. Although contact dancing with […]
The Wearable Instrument Series, by Marisa Jahn and Steve Shada, turn their wearers into breathing musical instruments. The […]
Last episode of Laura Baigorri’ essay for GAME as CRITIC as ART. 2.0. (see Part I, II, III […]
Episode IV of the summary/translation of Laura Baigorri’ essay for GAME as CRITIC as ART. 2.0. (see Part […]
TapTap is a scarf that can record, distribute and play back affectionate touch for emotional therapy. Based on […]