It all started with a true story: a farmer had lost his wedding ring in the field and […]
m@terials, developed by Jitsuro Mase, use an off-the-shelf LCD projector to display a “3D theater” on a table. […]
Vital Signs, by nARCHITECTS, is an interactive installation project designed to disseminate breaking news about science to visitors […]
The Asylum is a psychiatric treatment game in which you, the psychiatrist, examine and recommend treatment for seriously […]
Japanese company Shimaken has developed a 69 x 111 x 55mm TV remote control device that enables handicapped […]
Tony Larson, from Agents of the Area, designs skateboards for girls who like design. Via Land+Living.
A team of biomedical engineers has demonstrated that it is possible to grow healthy new bone reliably in […]
Shintaro Miyake In details.
The Hyperfabric fabric-based interface lets you reach beyond the screen. This “touchable” touchscreen, made out of an elastic […]
Sperm wriggling in a petri dish in the US have been manipulated using internet and laser technology by […]
Oto Kinoko is a “sound shop” in Kyoto, which was produced by Kazumichi Fujiwara, the sound artist from […]
The D&AD Student of the Year Award 2005 was won by a team of students from China. WeiWei […]
A surveillance system that singles you out if you’re acting suspiciously and alerts authorities so they can take […]
In the Mirror UVA exhibition by United Visual Artists, a Digiclops camera captures a 3-D image of an […]
Thanks again Internet Archive: Afro Mood Burlesque, Stripper – Famous Dancers, and Stripper – Chinese Joy Dance. Via […]
Spatial Graffiti, by Angus Chan, allows users to express their feelings with words, symbols, drawings, through the interaction […]
Ugo Ugo Lhuga, one of the most unforgettable Japanese kids TV show in the 1990’s, is rerun on […]
Chiho Aoshima. Asleep, dreaming of reptilian glory. Via k10k.
I visited the exhibition D.Day Modern Day Design at the Centre Pompidou in Paris this weekend. Have mixed […]
Bench’Mark is a project inspired from street culture and street art. It is a piece of public seating, […]
Wonderful music by Miles Davis for a great movie by Louis Malle. Via Bibi’s Box.
R*Emote Mirror is a pair of networked interactive lighting installations that creates communication between isolated people in urban […]
Bought beloved Icon at the Centre Pompidou. Read it in bed yesterday. Wonderful surprise. Thank you, thank you!
I Ching (or the ‘Book of Changes’) is the most widely read of the five Chinese Classics. In […]
(fly)light, by Pearl Chen, is an animated orb of green LEDS. Modular and lightweight, it was designed to […]
Delay Phone, by Ryota Kuwakubo, is a video phone system that allows users to intentionally increase or decrease […]
Gen-pets, by Canadian sculptor Adam Brandejs, consists of 19 plastic packages hung by hooks within a mock store […]
The work of Mieke Driessen brightened my day. Via del.icio.us/design
California-based Squid Labs has developed a high-tech rope that senses its own load and signals any weakness, sending […]
The Fargo Rug is a “rug that mistook itself for a landscape.” Inspired by the shape of snow […]
Government posters from the golden era of poster production between the early 1950s and 1980s. Via Bibi’s Box.
Another installation using “programmable shadows” was created by Azusa Saito. It’s called Itokageboushi, meaning something like a “string […]
R/V is an installation by Ryota Kuwakubo, which uses mobile robots equipped with LCD monitors, CCD cameras, microphones, […]
Henrin, developed by Masaru Tabei and Yuria Terada, is a collection of CD-Rs that contains the life of […]
I’m going to Belgium and France for a few days. Won’t update the blog much: just some very […]
Harada Keigo explains how she got the idea for Phone to Heaven: “I was very close to my […]
28 amazing Blaxploitation radio ads. Via Bedazzled and Bello Pubico.
In Sock Puppet Theatre, the puppets change the digital environment based on their physical interaction, opening up the […]
Virtual Canoe is a real-time water simulator with a database of 3D fluid dynamics. The system introduces realistic […]
The “Dutch Delights” ceramic dildos are decorated with traditional motives and can be filled with hot water and […]