Rachel Beth Egenhoefer considers her Commodore 64 computer and Fischer Price Loom to be defining objects of her […]
Theatre of Restless Automata comprises 3 animated universes modeled from variations of the same computational formula. Using computer […]
The energy released by a large hurricane can exceed the energy consumption of the human race for a […]
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The University of Linz (Austria), the Ars Electronica Futurelab and Siemens have developed navigation system that does away […]
With Playing the Building, David Byrne wanted to create an installation that would produce sound and would take […]
The Dutch are gearing up for climate change with amphibious houses. If rivers rise above their banks, the […]
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A screed of words carved by a schizophrenic French farmer into his bedroom floor has become Paris’s most […]
Youpiiie! Martin Frey has uploaded in english one of the funniest moments of the Free Projects presentation during […]
Toyota has developed a dual-purpose navigation system that debuts on the Alphard minivan, making it possible for the […]
Lufthansa and Siemens has successfully tested a biometric process for check-in and boarding at the Airport. The system […]
Philip Morris, the manufacturer of Marlboro, believes in “experiential” marketing and has created a team to transform Britain’s […]
The Korea Advanced Intelligent Robot Association (KAIRA) recently began pilot projects featuring “tutor robots” in some apartment complexes […]
Plastic will survive forever in landfill, or, if it is burnt, it can release toxic and carcinogenic particles […]
Some pretty nifty prototypes from Philips Design: Momento makes it easier to share video memories. The glass ball […]
The Cambrian Game, by Toshihiro Anzai and Rieko Nakamura, is a game in which players submit their own […]
The Bubble Screen, by Daniel Kupfer and Eyal Burstein, is made out of water bubbles. Using pumps, one […]
Pioneer has developed a “floating interface” which allows users to manipulate 3D graphics. Using a 3D lens, the […]
Fila Adatto, developed by Firstborn, is a shoe scanner and cobbler station that enables customers to scan their […]
Contact Coard is an accessory for landline phones to help users manage their contacts. The board comes with […]
For drivers who who have problems parking, Nissan has prototyped an egg-shaped car whose body pivots 360 degrees […]
Atelier Van Lieshout proposes collectively organized forms of working and living that circumvent conventional categories. The most radical […]
The Spectrascope, by Susan Collins, collects an image via a camera at the rate of one pixel a […]
Airbrush art on fairground equipment and other exquisite (!!) paraphernalia. Via wtbw.
This summer i couldn’t find many interesting “media art” stories to blog, so i wrote lighter posts about […]
An eco-friendly Japanese project that can extend the lives of aging buildings won the Bronze Award in the […]
Couldn’t find much information about this story, so i can’t garantee the authenticity (though 3yen is a very […]
Physical SimVillage is a study about applying Tangible User Interface and 3D game to help establish mutual understanding […]
The Environment Agency, in the UK, was noted for encouraging its staff to wear thermal underwear in order […]
Haptic sports garments, which use tactile signals to prompt the wearer to optimise their technique or to use […]
Josh Nimoy has developed Icons == Function for a commission by HCI-Fun and the F.A.C.T center. These seven […]
a.Shooter – Sonic Invaders, by Austrian collective a.Game (Michael Aschauer, Josef Deinhofer, Thomas Felder and Rainer Mandl) is […]
London dwellers will be able to summon driverless buses to their front doors and be taken direct to […]
Joseph Jacobson and his team at MIT have developed miniature robots that can self-assemble using parts that float […]
Toyota will launch in Japan next week a wristwatch containing a noncontact smart key that can be used […]
With Hidden Numbers, by Meghan Trainor, uses embedded RFID tags to trigger an audio database and illustrate a […]
All you ever wanted to know about them. Includes a delightful photo album, x-rays, etc. This one’s cheating, […]
A tribute to awful food. (yes, this is a cake!) Goes hand in hand with Finnish Recipe Cards […]
The Rock the Future exhibition is currently showing some very tempting Japanese digital art. In one room, painted […]
Researchers at the University of Munich and Saarland University have developed a rather ludicrous interactive beer mat for […]
For all the people who have asked me recently the irritating: “do you think blogging is the next […]