The RadioActive project, by Aaron Zinman and Judith Donath, aims at enabling a forum for asynchronous discussion using […]
In the Visual Code Recognition for Camera-Equipped Mobile Phones project, Michael Rohs and Beat Gfeller at the Federal […]
“Can television one day be something completely different from the content the entertainment industry is currently serving us? […]
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This one has just been added to my I want one list. For the INCITE/RCA collaboration, Jon Arden […]
Paula Levine’s Baghdad San Francisco imagines the effects upon San Francisco, had the bombs which fell on Baghdad […]
The Tampere University of Technology is working on machine washable and wirelessly rechargeable wearable technology. They prototyped a […]
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A team of scientists led by Matsuhiko Nishizawa, at Tohoku University, have developed a fuel cell that runs […]
Open the Blind questions our voyeurism and desires related to peeping. It also explores new kinds of interfaces […]
While in Berlin, I saw the Designmai Youngsters exhibition: The PIZZONI® Lifestyle-Grill looks like a rigid shoulder bag […]
Scientists at the University of Nottingham (UK) have managed to levitate some of the heaviest elements, including diamond, […]
To use the Tavofono, you must first record audio into the buttons on the table surface. When you […]
During this short (oh! so so short) trip to Berlin, I met Franz Fietzek who’s doing weird and […]
Trailer brochures featuring some rather tempting female campers. Via TackyTimes.
Won’t blog much today, still lots of things I want to see at Designmai here in Berlin. I […]
Arrived in Berlin yesterday and headed straight to the UDK to meet the students of the Digital Media […]
Collective Subconscious is an installation that imprints reverberating thoughts on a public space as people move through it. […]
Huge and very amusing collection of antique photographs. My favourite are the “well-dressed ladies” and the “cycling photos.” […]
Google Will Eat Itself (GWEI), by Hans Bernhard and Alessandro Ludovico, is a web project which aims to […]
… till Friday. I’ll be speaking together with Jussi Angesleva at the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress, 22C3: Private […]
Students in the New Interfaces for Musical Expression course at NYU have rigged up a ping-pong sample playback […]
SpotScents, developed by Yasuyuki Yanagida at the Media Information Science Laboratories in Japan, uses scent projectors to deliver […]
A golden era of romance comics? Now that’s something new to me. Via TackyTimes.
Project NERO is a real-time strategy game in which the latest in AI research from the University of […]
Japanese violin production company Alte Kobo has developed a violin as a speaker of an audio system. The […]
Ole Kristensen‘s flyt dig software lets your computer make a drawing based on motion. It detects motion through […]
Moovl is a digital online drawing tool with lifelike dynamic properties. It allows children to create drawings that […]
A series of weird adverts for some Japanese mayonnaise. Via Octopusdropkick. Thanks for the information on the mayo, […]
Martín Ruiz de Azúa‘s Chair-Screen is in fact a telecommunicator. Life-size images of speakers can be recorded in […]
Tokyo-based company TechFirm is launching a service that connects consumers and small retailers using RFID. Consumers having RFID-enabled […]
iFloor, developed by Interactive Spaces, University of Aarhus (Denmark), is an interactive floor aiming at encouraging users to […]
Red, yellow and amber-coloured lenses are being tested by Nike. The company believes they can help players see […]
Collection of vintage comic character pinbacks -most of them used for advertising- from the 1890s to the 1950s. […]
TARBoard (Tangible Augmented Reality System for Table-top Game Environment) uses augmented reality and a tangible user interface to […]
More from Cybersonica. Chris O’Shea presented another table to add to the list of musical tables. This one […]
Networked emoticon device let your partner at home know if something at work or at school has made […]
Fireflies are three networked jars, each containing pairs of colored fireflies, which communicate wirelessly in a home or […]
Awesome collection. Related: Acoustic radars.
InstantSharecam is a service for sharing in real-time and on the spot high-res videos/photos with your friends or […]
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Engineers at Berkeley have found a way to map a city very quickly, recording every window and doorway […]