Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud have installed WLAN / WiFi mesh network with can antennas on the roofs of the Academy of Arts and the Swiss Embassy, both located in the heart of “NSA’s Secret Spy Hub in Berlin.” The particularity of the network is that it is open and at the disposal of passersby to communicate anonymously and even send messages to operatives of the NSA and GCHQ intelligence who might lurk inside the nearby British Embassy and Embassy of the United States
The Urban Immune System Research, one of the 4 Making Future Work commissions, investigates parallel futures in the emergence of the ‘smart-city’. During their research, the Institute has produced a series of speculative prototypes that combine digital technology and biometrics: one of the devices ‘functions as a social sixth sense’, a second one is a backpack mounted with 4 megaphones that shouts out geo-located tweets as you walk around, a third one attempts to make its wearer get a sense of what might it feel like to walk through a ‘data cloud’ or a ‘data meadow’
Gosh! Was it hot that day! That didn’t prevent Lucas to hide inside a cabinet waiting for passersby to roll him home, Jenny walked around in black jacket monitoring wifi signals and Gerry morsed around the neighbourhood
An augmented reality device to visualize nodes of free access to wi-fi networks in the city but also the intimate links existing between urban space and virtual communication connections
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Kitchen Budapest is a brand new media lab for researchers who are not only interested in the convergence […]
A few months ago, i started covering in details the projects developed at the Interactivos? workshop which took […]
Constraint City – The Pain of Everyday Life lets you literally, feel this pain of information society. The […]
Yesterday i was in Amsterdam for the New Cultural Networks conference. The one day event, organized by the […]
I’m in Medellin for Pixelazo (workshop with Alejandro and a talk this afternoon.) I’ve always been totally immune […]
Jonah Brucker-Cohen has just released an OS Wifi Liberator Toolkit designed to liberate Pay-Per Use wireless networks and […]
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A Californian inventor has patented a new breed of throwable games controllers. Each “tossable peripheral” resembles a normal […]
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Portable Bug (2003), by Ben Woodeson, “is the next generation in self-sufficient solar powered bugging devices” which can […]
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Today, we are increasingly creating and responding (sometimes in a very painful way) to non-visual electromagnetic fields: those […]
Conflux, the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, will take place in Brooklyn, NYC, September 14-17. At […]
Anab Jain and Tom Jenkins are to install their Yellow Chair at ISEA San Jose in August. The […]
The Communication Mods exhibition in Toronto features five works by Mark Argo, that explore human-to-human communication through the […]
By breathing on the Infobreath “cybernetic” lilly, people trigger a flurry of text, making visible the wireless internet […]
Carried by a twenty foot blimp, Movable Feast / Fête Mobile is an autonomously controlled vehicle that, nevertheless, […]
Frida V. is a computer-enabled bicycle that allows riders to map open WIFI nodes in urban spaces. It […]
The i-garment project aims to develop smart garments for for the Portuguese Civil Protection. The suits will be […]
The Homeland Security Advisory System is a color-coded terrorism threat advisory scale. The different levels trigger specific actions […]
AwareCuffs, the 2nd item of the AwareFashion collection, inform the wearer about wireless hotspots in her environment. Just […]
WorldEar is a device that would be installed at the head-height of seated passengers in trains around the […]
A new communications tool that “whispers” on busy radio channels could enable broadband Internet services for on-the-go wireless […]
RCA Show, II. With the Yellow Chair Stories, Anab Jain opened her WiFi network to neighbours and passers-by. […]
BumpNet is a public wireless network that only supports a maximum number of connected clients. When a new […]
In what looks like a complete reverse of Usman Haque‘s floatable jellyfish-like vessels, PC accessory maker Buffalo is […]
Seamful Game, by Matthew Chalmers from the University of Glasgow (Scotland), is a GPS and WiFi based game […]
We had anti-wifi and frequency selective wallpapers, now Christos Mias at the University of Warwick (UK) has devised […]
On Sunday 19 and Monday 20, students of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (Tisch School of the Arts in […]
Mattias Östergren from the Interactive Institute in Stockholm has developed SoundPryer, a wireless peer-to-peer software for mobile music […]
Public Broadcast Cart, by Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (author of Vagamundo), is a shopping cart equipped with a microphone, […]
Dave Slocombe and Natasha Sopieva, from the Interactive Design Institute in Ivrea, have updated an old Fiat 500 […]
Japanese vending machine provides you with nearly anything you can dream of, from eggs to fishing hooks or […]
Brian Lonsway ‘s research focuses on the relationships between architecture and informatics, and in particular, the development of […]
Taking its cue from Star Trek: The Next Generation, US firm Vocera has created a wireless voice communicator. […]
ABC News correspondent Wonbo Woo works alone, setting up a camera and microphone that ran directly into a […]