Norway’s new National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design doesn’t have a permanent building as yet. Instead a […]
Asahi Breweries will launch in Japan this winter a beer that changes taste over time as the fermentation […]
For Kathryn Findlay’s contribution to Hotel Puerta America in Madrid, Jason Bruges has designed two lighting installation. In […]
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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 […]
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Nagraj Vs. Shakoora The Magician, edited by Indian Raj Comics, a delirious and Bollywood-esque story. Via Papel Continuo.
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, […]
Turkish movie posters. Via Bibi’s Box.
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 […]
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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 […]
Pieceoplastic has an excellent review of Ars Electronica. You know, one of those broad roundup i’m too lazy […]
Fujitsu is to start selling a new service robot called enon (which stands for “exciting nova on network.”) […]
Li Zhensheng’s photographs of the Cultural Revolution, from 1964 to 1976. Also worth a look at are the […]
The iconography of San Sebastian, from the XIVth Century till now. Picture above is “Muhammad Ali as a […]
Carrie Bodle has turned MIT Building 54 into a giant speaker, resonating with sounds from the upper level […]
Maybe inspired by GUFRAM’s Pratone seat, Schlafgras (sleeping grass) offers a styrofoam landscape that can be customized to […]
A series of i-wish-i-could-go events: Founders of Bioteknica will conduct live surgery as part of a cabaret benefit […]
A spacecraft skin is being developed that assesses the severity of any damage it suffers from space debris […]
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 […]
Packs of fags. Picture above is a packet of mythic Belgian cigs, the Royal Tigra. Via a best […]
With the Facial Control for Electric Guitar project, David Merrill mapped the output of a real-time face-tracker onto […]
Here’s some notes from Jens Hauser’s talk at the Hybrid Identities symposium, Ars Electronica, on Saturday September 9. […]
Another one spotted at Ars Electronica. The Singing Skeleton Pilot consists of a “skeleton guitar” you must strap […]
The sound installation PAUSE is made of 5 hammocks connected to each other at the center by a […]