As consumers surrend to the appeal of prepared –read “junk”– meals that lure the stomach with yummy looking […]
In Korea, game makers are developing systems that will enable office workers to play with lower risks of […]
Steven Holl ‘s Whitney Waterworks is a water filtration plant shaped like a pipe, covered in stainless steel […]
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Before graduating from the RCA in London, designer Ingrid Hora made furniture for people living between madness and […]
Went to Knit 2 Together: Concepts and Knitting, at the Craft Council. Everyone was smiling and sometimes even […]
Hasbro plans on launching a musical toothbrush called “Tooth Tunes” reports the WSJ. “When pressed to the teeth, […]
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Going to London for the week-end. Might be silly enough to update the blog.
The Carrousel, created by Philip Ross, is an interface that allows people to dynamically ‘sculpt’ a desired atmosphere […]
Freddie Robins subverts the medium of “knitting”, an activity often perceived as feminine, comfortable and non-threatening, to explore […]
Awesome collection. Via Protein Feed.
Security guards can watch only eight monitors at once – and after about 20 minutes, everything starts to […]
When the “Do, Re, Mi, Fa,…” faucets of Sound Flakes are turned, sound drips into the water pool, […]
Bordergames, by La Fiambrera Obrera (Spain), isn’t yet a game. It is platform that allows young Maghrebis to […]
Ku: iyashikei-net by Urico Fujii and Ann Poochareon is a networked crying sculpture that allows people to communicate […]
A new German online game, gen.ethix, asks players to make decisions about the future of biotechnology. All the […]
Shigeru Ban’s temporary museum has taken up Pier 54 (Manhattan’s west side) to house the Ashes and Snow […]
An artificial court has been especially laid for champions Roger Federer and Andre Agassi on the heliport of […]
Bits on Location was the diploma thesis of Aram Bartholl. This research attempted to connect, through a series […]
The Globe-Jungle Project, by Yasuhiro Suzuki, is inspired by the “Globe-Jungle”, a round climbing structure that was very […]
Engineers from the Institute of Infocomm Research and the National University of Singapore are developing robots that can […]
Gary Look, a researcher at MIT, is looking to incorporate landmarks into automatically-generated directions using a software that […]
Richard Wool, at the University of Delaware, wants to replace petroleum-based components in circuit boards with chicken feathers. […]
A marine biology page documents the recent discovery of a new kind of squid. The creatures, named exocells, […]
Brainbar is a mechanical bar that mixes drinks adapted to the visitor’s brainwaves. The customer wears a sensor-studded […]
Repository of microphones with pictures, comparative recordings, links chronicling golden years and gallery of celebs with mics. William […]
Brainscore, by Darij Kreuh and Davide Grassi, features two performers in front of a screen where computer-generated events […]
Back in December, Francis Hwang offered the Unauthorized iPod U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition up for auction on […]
RedTacton is a Human Area Networking technology developed by NTT Docomo, that uses the surface of the human […]
Israeli company Fertiligent has devised a disposable pump to improve the effectiveness of a treatment for infertility for […]
Game Music, by Vladimir Todorovic, threats a video game space as an environment for music production, sampling, processing, […]
Telephony is an installation developed in 2000 by Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead that allows gallery visitors to […]
Uk-based company Smart Holograms produces holograms which can be used as biosensors. Prototypes have already been made for […]
A team at Medical College of Georgia have made a mouse with 70% more muscle mass than normal, […]
Just as archeologists excavate layers of debris from past civilizations to inform their histories, Jetsam – part of […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has compiled a list of gadget “species” under threat of extinction. Endangered gizmos highlights […]
I’ve just spent half an hour (at least) admiring Grafik Dynamo, a net art work by Kate Armstrong […]
A collection of Japanese warning signs. This one is “Do not feed the goats and sheeps with paper […]
Scientists have identified the chemical emitted by female German cockroaches, aka the “biggest pest worldwide”, that brings males […]
Reverse Engineers, an exhibition that takes place on Feb. 19 – March 19, at the Carnegie Art Center, […]
Scandinavian Design (via dezain) has snapshots and reports from Stockholm Furniture Fair 2005. In their selection, I spotted […]