The Lake is a sound and animation work by Julie Freeman based on the movement of fish that […]
Two new techniques of tissue engineering may one day lead to large scale production of lab grown meat […]
PagesJaunes (the French Yellow Pages) is using «clean-tags», to promote the launch of the 2005 phone books in […]
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For the launch of the new Vauxhall Astra, Crispin Jones designed special keycases: they only allow people who […]
Most of the images feature students gathered around the cadaver, either actively dissecting or just posing, often wearing […]
Jorge Luis Borges wrote in 1960 a short story that described the ambition of a group of imaginary […]
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Japanese researchers are using femtosecond laser pulses to write data into human fingernails. Capacities are said to be […]
Mountaineering is “the art of moving safely in mountains”. Still, the number of casulties is rising and amateur […]
Most of them are from Sweden. Can anyone tell me if a similar website exists for Liège (Belgium)? […]
No more worries about forgotten cameras and missed picture opportunities (or simply a life so unexciting you think […]
Limiteazero‘s latest work, a_mirror reflects both the physical and the virtual world. Any image gets physically reflected in […]
By Ian Stevenson. He also makes silly videos. My kind of humour. Via wtbw.
Celestial Mechanics is a planetarium artwork being created by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. Rather than a presentation […]
Made me realize that I still don’t see much of “colored” people in glossies. Via Blography.
A new communications tool that “whispers” on busy radio channels could enable broadband Internet services for on-the-go wireless […]
Places which are more accessible seem to get “closer” to each other while less accessible places become isolated. […]
APCompass, by David Wiltshire, is a database of wireless access points that you can add to using a […]
To switch on the Watt? Light, by Paul Cocksedge (designed in 2003), you need to draw a pencil […]
Good girls were usually athletic, smart women who might fall into precarious positions. Via dadanoias.
The DNA clock represents Stanza ‘s dna and each letter or base code appears on the screen for […]
A new concept of leather is being developed by Grado Zero Espace for Corpo Nove. The new leather […]
The Designer Hymen Project was a concept product in 2004. Hymen prototypes were grown in a petri dish […]
BBC News has an article about the RCA show I visited last week (btw, it was rather mean […]
It’s menstruation time, young girl! DO clean your fingernails and wear your prettiest dress! More sound advice in […]
Portable Light, developed by University of Michigan and Kennedy & Violich Architecture, is a series of prototypes which […]
Collection of Soviet children’s books published in the 1920s and 30s. Via Hugo Strikes Back.
In-car navigation and communication systems remain unconnected to each other, and entering addresses or phone numbers into them […]
As part of Tate Online’s 40 artists, 40 days – a project in support of London’s Olympic and […]
The Tapir Gallery. Includes a Tapir online game and tapir cookies. Via One Man Safari.
Intimate Memory, by Joanna Berzowska, includes a shirt and a skirt that display their history of use. Electronic […]
Royal College of Art show 2005, VII. The Pancam, by Mark Hauenstein, is a low cost digital camera […]
Totally surrealist commercial for Belgian beer Stella Artois. Ah! Belgium! Dear dear crazy country! Via Linkfilter.
reHOUSE/bath envisions the bathroom as a biotop where nature and mankind interact. BATH is a mobile bathing surface. […]
Royal College of Art show, VI. Dream Catcher, by Milan Prucha, investigates the blurring of boundaries between 3D […]
New Zealand researchers have devised a shape-shifting rubber reef that can be fitted to the floor of a […]
Government sponsored anti-Japanese propaganda posters during WWII in the Pacific Theater. Via el sr Garcia Hugo Strikes Back. […]
The Lonely Home bench, by Tobi Schneidler and m.a.o.works, is a “socially intelligent design object”, part domestic furniture […]
String Thing, by Benjamin Dove, is a cello-like electronic instrument played by stroking or beating metal rods with […]
Police in Rome have a device to identify and fine people who ignore the double white lines that […]
Women living in remote areas who don’t have easy access to health care will someday be able to […]