BETÃO ORGÂNICO, by Lisbon-based architects and designers e-studio, is an organic concrete developed to conciliate the vegetable and […]
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Asahi Breweries will launch in Japan this winter a beer that changes taste over time as the fermentation […]
Non-fiction books checked out and returned at the Seattle Central Library amount to approximately 37000 items per day. […]
University of California, Berkeley researchers claim that sounds from typing on computer keyboards are distinctive enough to be […]
My boyfriend’s favourite Japanese retailer, Muji, is selling Earthquake emergency packs, complete with gloves, slippers, candle, etc. Via […]
Soviet Unterzögersdorf is the last existing appanage republic of the USSR. The enclave maintains no diplomatic relationship with […]
Early versions of security machines at airports showed images of people as if they had no clothes on, […]
Maybe not brand new for some of you, but as i’ve just started an investigation on AI in […]
Even things we’d likely to perceive as nature, like the trees on the street, are carefully planned and […]
Sonic Constructs is a sound installation that uses Lego Mindstorms robots as musical instruments. Visitors participate by constructing […]
German genius of lightning Ingo Maurer is auctioning its own Porca Cina lamp with benefits going to Médecins […]
The Dustbunnies, by Stijn Schiffeleers and Hendrik Leper from Boutique Vizique, is a colony of seven shapes that […]
A simple wave of your hand might let you turn the TV on and off, change channels or […]
Fujitsu is to start selling a new service robot called enon (which stands for “exciting nova on network.”) […]
The iconography of San Sebastian, from the XIVth Century till now. Picture above is “Muhammad Ali as a […]
Stefan Eberstadt‘s Rucksack Haus (backpack house) is a sculpture but could also be a fully functional dwelling; the […]
I don’t like to make self-promotion but as several people have kindly asked me to attend events they […]
Superstar is a multiplayer photo-based game designed for Ubicomp 2005, Tokyo. The game is free, and open for […]
Designboom / Cow by NSR “teenage furniture” design competition. The results are out. First prize is irresistible even […]
Many Japanese must have seen Ferenc Cako‘s live sand animation on TV as it was featured in NTT […]
Nukunukukey is a key-shaped information appliance that provides awareness about one’s home through sound, light and heat. [Prototype […]
Now that Europe seems to open itself to the joys of capsule dwelling, Japan’s love affair with the […]
In Peau d’Ane, a young princess orders impossible wedding gifts from her father in order to avoid marrying […]
The University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo has developed Augmented Coliseum, an amazing (just have a look at the […]
Kayagomori is a pretty fascinating concept by Daisuke Uriu and Naohito Okude from KEIO University in Japan. This […]
A team from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) have been given the go-ahead to create a […]
Nomadic Yooff is a piece of luggage/furniture designed for teenagers of divorced parents with more than one place […]
Shimizu has worked with the Nakagawa Laboratory on a system for museums that uses visible light to convey […]
A team at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a power-generating backpack. Dubbed “Suspended-load Backpack”, the device converts […]
The Ladder is a mixed-reality installation. The room is plain apart from a window, cut high into the […]
Gemini Residence, by Dutch architects MVRDV and Danish office Jensen+Jørgensen+Wohlfeldt, is in fact two former grain silos on […]
A digital device to be launched today in the UK apparently allows “addressable advertising” – only showing commercials […]
As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation is a system that lets a user move and deform a 2D shape without manually […]
The ICA’s Digital Studio has just opened the first solo show in the UK of Vuk Cosic, one […]
Uturn is Marie Danel’s graduation project. The product is intended for the 400,000 Danes suffering from incontinence. Uturn […]
There were huge photomontages of Action Half Life at the Brucknerhaus during Ars Electronica. This photografic travesty mixes […]
Among the distinction project (Concept category) of the 51st Annual Design Review is Johnny Applesandal, eco-conscious footwear that […]
Ephemeral Gumboots is a human/computer-dance/music interactive system. It can be a game (for anyone to try) and an […]
Peter Weibel: Observation is not a menace; observation is entertaining. Surveillance is enthusiastically enjoyed. A blog that revels […]
The RFID video player is a program that plays videos full screen, the playback is triggered by placing […]