Ã?ngeles Oliva and Toña Medina’s installation, Dolor Intenso, uses hairdryers-MP3 players to explore the relationship of repression, admiration, […]
Akino Kondoh‘s work is at Mizuma Art Gallery at FIAC 2005 in Paris through October 10. Via artkrush.
For the Regrets project, six to ten booths will be located in and around Cambridge (UK) to collect […]
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Shoppers are to be given bells to attach to purses and handbags in a bid to deter thieves […]
(Re)design your very own label for one of your favourite products! In 3 simple steps. Shilpa Gupta’s M.O.L. […]
Mobile Phone Abusers Anonymous, a project by Hwa Young Jung, takes a critical look at mobile technology and […]
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The HandySinger system is a tool developed at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories to naturally express a […]
One of Alain Séchas‘ wonderful creatures. Currently shown at the 3rd Biennial of Valencia which will run until […]
Public recycling bins that use RFID to credit recyclers every time they toss in a bottle; pressure-sensitive floors […]
More about Pioneer 3D floating interfaces… Haruka is a 3D floating vision receptionist who lives inside a 210x180x210mm […]
In order to avoid attending school physically, Iwamoto Satoru began operating a robot remotely from home to go […]
Makoto Koizumi‘s 9tubohouse residential house construction project, started in 2002, is primarily known for a remake of “the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]