Once strapped around your face, the Pencil Mask (1972) transforms the head into an instrument for drawing. Rebecca […]
Visceral Cinema: Chien combines key moments from the surrealist film Un Chien Andalou with viewers’ shadows to form […]
Researchers from Stanford University and Cornell University have put together a projector-camera system that can read a playing […]
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HIT ME! is a 2-player game designed to promote face to face, “real world” interaction amongst both the […]
As part of her Social Defense Mechanisms: Tools for Reclaiming our Personal Space research, Limor Fried (creator of […]
whiSpiral is a spiral-shaped shawl that carries whispers of your loved ones and explores how technology can enhance […]
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Infotropism is a project that explores the use of living material and biomimetic forms in displays, and the […]
Imagine the dangers when full Internet capabilities become available to drivers. Dr. Meirav Taieb-Maimon and her colleagues at […]
Neighbourhood Satellites is one of my favourite projects. Ever. I’ve spammed Myriel Milicevic with messages asking her if […]
Excecutive Flagship, 1953: “This luxurious leviathan allows a millionaire gypsy to take his swimming pool and helicopter landing […]
Since May 6, visitors to the oldest maze in the world, Hampton Court Palace Maze can hear cymbals, […]
France Cadet ‘s new work, SweetPad, allows three persons to play Quake 3 Arena in a totaly new […]
Splendid collection for fans of Kung Fu. Via Crazy Japan!
Theodore Watson‘s Audio Space allows you to leave messages in specific locations within the room. Wearing a headset […]
South Korean startup Plasma and Ion Beamhas plans to commercialize its paper-thin plastic film speaker technology developed back […]
The US military is developing miniature electronic sensors disguised as rocks that can be dropped from an aircraft […]
The Dream Recorder by Maria Paula Villamil is an emotion-responsive system which investigates what it would mean to […]
Mysterious People: poltergeist girl, feral children, Russian psychic, the man with X-ray vision, etc. Via Ponchorama.
The Gender Anarchy Project breaks down assumptions of gender. The sign on the bathroom doors is replaced by […]
ætherspace is a computational garment that uses transducers of electro-magnetic waves to make hertzian space audible, make the […]
A collection of wild ads for Japanese cakes, sweets and cookies. Via Crazy Japan.
Stroke patients who face months of rehabilitation to regain the use of impaired limbs may benefit from new […]
The previous post reminded me of Inter Dis-Communication Machine I tried at last year’s Ars Electronica. Through this […]
Marieke Rohde hopes to create “cyborgs” at the Cheltenham Science Festival (UK) next month. Visitors to the festival […]
Florian Muller has developed Hug Over a Distance to let you tell your loved one how much you […]
Steven Chu sees an America free from foreign oil, powered by home-grown genetically engineered and eco-friendly fuel. The […]
Paper Pixels is a manually controlled display with a resolution of 8 x 8 pixels. Each pixel is […]
Masahide Kaneko and colleagues at the University of Electro-Communications, in Japan, have developed an image-analysis system for cameras […]
The programme of the next edition of Dorkbot SF on June 1 is rather eclectic: The Simnuke Team, […]
Juan Hinestroza at North Carolina State University, and researchers at the University of Puerto Rico have pioneered a […]
The Institute of Cell and Molecular Science at Queen Mary College, University of London, provides workspace, laboratories, seminar […]
Lina Fenequito ’s Swap-o-Matic is a vending machine that enables people to swap used goods as a means […]
Rare mixes, mastermixes, remixes, bootlegs and pirate radio from the mid 80s. Via Blography.
Evan Roth’s Graffiti Analysis makes visible the unseen movements of graffiti artists in the creation of a tag. […]
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 […]
“How To Perform Strongman Stunts” by Ottley R Coulter, published in 1952. Learn how to tear a phone […]
The mayor of Boxtel, the municipality where the Dutch outdoor hacker conferences What The Hack resides, seems to […]
The WSJ has an article on a series of gadgets that are being previewed this week at the […]
According to Ian Pearson, by the mid-21st century, computer technology will be so sophisticated that it might be […]