The Pachinko Hakubutsukan (Pachinko Museum, more pictures) boasts 148 machines, many of them rare and historic mementos of […]
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First a bit of physics: A refrigerator is one of the biggest electricity consumers at home. It works […]
Mirage Motion Media, a Toronto-based startup, has developed “interactive motion panels” that play “video” clips — without the […]
My friend Graham and his team at TreeHugger are running a DIY Eco-Tech contest. You have to come […]
University of Florida engineers are working on the next generation of airborne drones that will dive between buildings […]
Ben Pell’s Walldrobe Wearpaper is a series of thin leather panels that you hang on your wall as […]
The first recorded story of a person being shot from a cannon was in England, circa 1877. Unfortunately, […]
Mitsubishi Electric has released in Japan two DVD recorders capable of finding and replaying the best moments from […]
Back to my little report of the Biennale. The most photogenic exhibition at the Venice Biennale is probaby […]
Silicon Graphics Inc. is to collaborate with the U.S. Army on the Subterranean Target Identification program. The program […]
Trans-Siberian Radio is a low-power FM station that will operate on the train from Moscow to Beijing via […]
Roborior‘s debut (picturephoning.com rediff) at major Japanese department stores was one of the biggest news last week in […]
Swedish artist Ylva Franzén decorates tiles. The result is just dazzling. Before studying at Konstfack (University College of […]
I stumbled upon this project a few months ago. Every few weeks or so I would go back […]
American researchers have produced 8 wildcat kittens by cross-breeding cloned adults. This is the first time that clones […]
Tmsuk, the company that makes Roborior and Altemis robots, has a notable web page that features Japanese Prime […]
Oregon Health and Sciences University researchers are testing a small device you can wear like a music player […]
Featured in “The Art of Breathing in the World” Exibition are provocative new-media art installations by KOSUGI+ANDO, including […]
Richard Horden asked his architecture students at both the Technical University of Munich and the Tokyo Institute of […]
Following the last two posts about Kenji Yanobe (if you remember: Cinema in the Wood and Postapocalyptic survival […]
Chrystl Rijkeboer creates installation and art objects made of human hair. For Project kloone4000 (which presents work of […]
A discovery by Princeton researchers may lead to an efficient method for controlling the transmission of light and […]
A team at the University of Tokyo’s Center for Spatial Information Science has developed a system that evaluates […]
Lucid Touch is a bioreactive sculpture that induces emotion using an affective feedback loop to control the flow […]
Darumouse = Daruma + Mouse. Daruma being a round Japanese wish doll with no arms and legs, modelled […]
The Mars Foundation plans a permanent settlement on planet Mars using near-term technologies and resources already available on […]
Something everyone talked about but no one has seen at the Venice Biennale is Gregor Schneider’s “Cube Venice […]
My favourite pavilion at the Venice Biennale was Iceland’s. I was fascinated by Gabríela Fridriksdóttir‘s uncanny world. If […]
Aparna Rao‘s My Bedtime project is aimed at underlining that each individual has a unique sleep need that […]
Billboard Building (R3 Moto Azabu) is Klein-Dytham‘s lastest building. The building, conceived like a billboard, is covered with […]
Laparoscopic surgery is the most common form of weight-loss intervention. It reduces the size of the stomach to […]
Photo documentation of their work from 1936 till 1980. This archive of vintage photographs shows the ingenuity of […]
Wondering how a memorial product can better help today’s bereaved to grieve and heal in the years following […]
Yesterday I stopped at the Fondazione Bevilacqua in Venice (just behind the pigeon-infested Piazza San Marco) to see […]
Seing Manekineko’s post about Kenji Yanobe, I couldn’t resist the urge to write something about the artist humourous […]
Eavesdripping, by Sascha Pohflepp, uses water as medium and display to render invisible communication visible and experienceable. A […]
Well, this is my luck! I’m back from the Venice Biennale and have just read emails urging me […]
SUIRIN, by Satou Tokuhisa and Masa Inagake, is an installation that in a sense demonstrates how Augmented Reality […]
Tanaka Seisakusyo’s new Automatic Door is the most puzzling thing I’ve seen this week. The door is segmented […]
In August 2001 artists Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson and photographer Anthony Oliver travelled to Greenland to conduct experiments […]