URBANtells is a mobile sound installation in which the user explores a neighborhood on foot, “data-diving” with a […]
A research consortium will conduct tests at Kansai International Airport from October on robots designed to help passengers. […]
After this rather serious blogging day, here’s an easy post about the only Illy cups I ever wanted […]
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Scrapple: A physical active score table, by Golan Levin, is a physical version of the screen-based Audiovisual Environments […]
Jumping Rope is the classic children’s game of jump rope transferred into the digital world. Your skill at […]
I arrived this afternoon at Ars Electronica and, God, i’m here till Tuesday and have the impression i’ll […]
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Asaichi project, by Kyoko Yamakawa, connects urban life and rural life of farmers through a dining table. A […]
wwwrb, by Hiroki Obara, is a large cylinder display device for browsing the Web. [wwwrb provides omni-directional web […]
I’m going to Linz to cover the Ars Electronica festival. But all I can think about right now […]
Berlin-based designer Mareike Gast has created Refugee Radio, a radio for better communication in refugee camps, powered by […]
At the upcoming Internationale Funkausstellung 2005 in Berlin, Philips Research will show prototypes of its photonic textiles—fabrics that […]
Animated computer-generated adverts are to appear on the sides of London’s red buses. Outdoor ad company Viacom Outdoor […]
The pictures speak for themselves (Konomi is too busy to translate it for me anyway) Via What’s that!?, […]
After having spotted a new series of stamps devoted to American scientists, the guys at Stay Free! Daily […]
New York architect Peter Eisenman has planned to fit the Arizona Cardinals new stadium (Glendale, Ariz.) with a […]
Urban Nomad Shelter’s vivid colours and biomorphic forms contradict a stereotype of cardboard-box vagrancy. It was conceived as […]
Gryphon-like extension to an Edwardian house, Melbourne. Via dexigner World Architecture News.
General Motors plans to build a vehicle which automatically stays in lane and will not crash into the […]
Artist and composer Tristan Perich‘s new project is called One Bit Music. This low-fi musical device consists of […]
DIMobile is a 53-foot-long truck that travels throughout the U.S. When the vehicle arrives at a location in […]
Developed by Sonic Studio, BodyRest is a wearable device (PDA + headphones + sensors) that produces customized music […]
Jan at Piecoplastic has set up a wiki-list for bloggers, mobloggers, wikis, social bookmarks covering ars electronica 2005. […]
As part of George Bush’s push to revisit the Moon by 2018, Nasa is using the Hubble Space […]
Japan plans to improve traffic conditions with a “smart” traffic control system which will have signals atuned to […]
A team led by scientists from Edinburgh University has succeeded in objects move remotely and with no direct […]
The N55 ROCKET SYSTEM enables anyone to communicate their protest in a concrete way. This low tech, low […]
Last week i was reading that a tortoise had undergone an operation that removed four bladder stones and […]
mlle. malaprop (english version) is a female proxy server affected by Alzheimer. She suffers from the first symptom […]
This one is for Sascha who was looking for accomodation in Linz during Ars Electronica. Das ParkHotel offers […]
The piiPod could be the solution for anyone trying to get rid of their addiction to iPod. Dutch […]
Temporary networks (ad-hoc wireless networks) are designed to be “visible” to devices only, not to people. Without consulting […]
OP_ERA: sonic dimension, by Daniela Kutschat and Rejane Cantoni, is an immersive installation designed as a music box. […]
To protect biometric information, IBM researchers have developed a fun-house mirror-like trick to alter images so that hackers […]
A microscopic robot that it is so small it can be injected into the body through a syringe […]
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wave_scan, by Brad Todd, is composed of an ELF (extremely low frequency) sensor, an antenna and a projection […]
Thank you Kottke for being braver than me (via Jason Calcanis Weblog): “News.com ruminates about Google building a […]
Mutual Telexistence robot Â?gTELESAR 2Â?h is a master-slave robot composed of the slave humanoid robot (Figure 1, video) […]
Silly but irresistible item of the week. Nobuko Nishida’s “Love and Peace”, presented at the YKK Fastening Awards. […]
Parasite is the other project by Frédéric Eyl, Gunnar Green and Richard The I saw at the UDK […]