The Mars Foundation plans a permanent settlement on planet Mars using near-term technologies and resources already available on […]
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Zaandam (Amsterdam)-based designer Eric Klarenbeek has an impressive portfolio. Musical Box was part of an investigation on the […]
You wake up in the morning and sit at your breakfast table. There comes a can of Earl […]
The Designer Hymen Project was a concept product in 2004. Hymen prototypes were grown in a petri dish […]
Scientists have taken the first step towards creating human eggs and sperm in the laboratory using stem cells, […]
Praystation, by Glasgow art student Douglas Maitland, is a project that addresses declining church attendance in the year […]
The US military is developing miniature electronic sensors disguised as rocks that can be dropped from an aircraft […]
Marieke Rohde hopes to create “cyborgs” at the Cheltenham Science Festival (UK) next month. Visitors to the festival […]
Mapamp uses existing structures and systems (architecture of a city, navigation and radio systems) to layer an artificial […]
Thinking about yesterday’s post… The Life Support Systems deals with the possibility of enabling life to continue after […]
The first patient to be fitted with a device that “turbocharges” an ailing heart is recovering in a […]
A team of scientists led by Matsuhiko Nishizawa, at Tohoku University, have developed a fuel cell that runs […]
Project NERO is a real-time strategy game in which the latest in AI research from the University of […]
Genware::algorithmic library, an ongoing research by Biothing, is an artificial life-based design software that can convert dynamic sound […]
With PARCEL, Swedish architecture and design research group Krets suggests new relationships between the material, audiovisual and digital […]
A “bionic eye”, engineered at Stanford University, California, may one day help blind people see again. The eye […]
For Chanel�s new Tokyo headquarters, Darren Nolan, Peter Marino + Associates turned to LEDs to illuminate its fa�ade. […]
Glowing Places are public seating for artificially-lit indoor spaces (shopping malls, subway stations, etc.) They glow, dim, flash […]
Toshio Iwai has created for Nintendo DS a new music game called Electroplankton. Electroplankton presents the player with […]
Digital Play: Reloaded opens on March 18 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. The […]
The artificial human chromosomes (HACs) technology adds an extra chromosome to the 46 that reside in most cells […]
The Robotic Birds, by Paul Granjon, are very simple robots based on small electric motors and LEDs. They […]
Below Tokyo streets, a staffing agency is nurturing an underground and pesticide-free farm. “The six rooms all have […]
Experts at the McVitie’s laboratory in the UK have invented a mannequin with a motorised mouth to test […]
Echo Chamber, by Chris O’Shea, is a 3D navigable soundscape that persuades people to make noises into the […]
Six years ago Yoseph Bar-Cohen, physicist at NASA, challenged other researchers to build a robotic arm using artificial […]
When the “Do, Re, Mi, Fa,…” faucets of Sound Flakes are turned, sound drips into the water pool, […]
An artificial court has been especially laid for champions Roger Federer and Andre Agassi on the heliport of […]
Scientists have identified the chemical emitted by female German cockroaches, aka the “biggest pest worldwide”, that brings males […]
While the most advanced robots, including Asimo, require a multitude of motors and sensors in each joint and […]
Even if you understand nothing about the Ornamental Bug Garden piece (and I´m not sure I understand the […]
A few weeks, ago, came the news that Kim Jong-Hwan, the director of the Intelligent Robot Research Lab […]
Banabi, by Maurizio Piraccini, is an audio-visual pedagogic gaming experience for young children. The game uses the kids’ […]
Adam Somlai-Fischer, Peter Hudini and Anita Pozna from Aether architecture are working on Induction House , an experimental […]
The results of the MACEF design award are out. Candidates had to design home accessories that work with […]
Insects are always a huge hit in interactive installation. The creepier (everyone’s favourite being the cockroach), the better. […]
As researchers develop more sophisticated protheses for locomotion, research has also focused on phantom limb sensations of amputees […]
NOEMI*, developed by the Parisian collective Music2eye, is a musical sculpture system that creates a musical dialog between […]
The upcoming 2005 world expo in Aichi (March 25 – September 25) will be a showcase of Japan’s […]
elf – electronic-life-forms, Pascal Glissmann and Martina Höfflin, is a two-part installation. The first part shows photographs of […]