While the most advanced robots, including Asimo, require a multitude of motors and sensors in each joint and […]
The Think-a-Tron was introduced by Hasbro in the 1960s as a computer for kids. Dubbed “The Machine That […]
“The introduction of foreign genes into plants has revolutionized the study of plant biology and provided new avenues […]
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Popular Science (via Caveat lector ) has a cover story about Robert Bigelow project to build a 330-cubic-meter […]
The Pentagon is spending $127 billion on the Future Combat Systems programme to build heavily-armed robots in the […]
Entrepreneurs who brought foreign videos and films to Russian’s rural hinterlands where they set up make-shift movie houses […]
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Kami-robo are paper robot designed to fight. First created by Tomohiro Yasui, they measure 15 to 20 centimeters […]
Jin-Yo Mok and Ahmi Wolf‘s Light Bead Curtain is a musical installation that can be played by touch. […]
Brendan Walker, researcher at the RCA in London, is working on a machine that can measure the experience […]
3 minutes², by French art collective Electric Shadow, recreates an extremely reduced living unit that can extend beyond […]
M-city provides an application for constructing stencil cities on your own, from the same elements as in the […]
Engineer Sanjay Joshi and professor of psychology Jeffrey Schank at UC Davis have recorded the behavior of rat […]
The Memory Mirror, developed at the Everyday Computing Lab, aims at helping people remember tasks that have to […]
Radianse has developed a single-use active-RFID tag for patient location. The wristwatch-sized device can be slipped onto a […]
A year in an “assisted-living facility” costs around $28,500 a year, up to $40,000 in large cities. Lee […]
More on the “Rinspeed Senso“, the car that “senses” the driver by measuring her/his biometric data, and then […]
Vintage Film Posters auction. 9 March 2005, 1:00 pm, Christie’s London. In case, you’re interested in the above […]
Naoru-kun, a new doll by Bandai , responds to RFID’d objects. The toy speaks 150 different phrases and […]
When threatened, animals often display physical warnings; e.g. porcupines or puffer fish both erect their spines as a […]
Julius Popp ‘s micro.adam and micro.eva are two simple robots who, like Adam and Eve in Paradise, will […]
The Soundgarten , created by by Michael Wolf, enables kids to create their own sound environment by manipulating […]
Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, studied architecture in London, left for a 3 month tour of Japan and […]
Victor Wong, a blind student at Cornell University, has developed software that turns colours into musical notes so […]
Suite is an exhibition of three sound-centred works located around the public areas of the Great Eastern Hotel […]
Cats in simulated spacesuits. More in Space Today and Animal Astronauts .
German firms Vorwerk Teppichwerke and Infineon Technologies have created a “Thinking Carpet”, equipped with sensors that can control […]
Sonic City, developed by a the Viktoria Institute and RE:form in Sweden, enables people to compose music in […]
Oh la vache!, by French designer Hervé Matejewski, a tent for discreet campers. Matejewski has just received the […]
Zbigniew Oksiuta‘s works merge biology, art and architecture. The Spatium Gelatum (congealed space) project is a proposal for […]
The Interactive Walkways is one of Electroland‘s awesome projects. Cameron McNall and Damon Seeley envisioned two glass pedestrian […]
Microchips inserted into the new bins in Croydon (S.London) may be adapted so that the council can judge […]
The Scorpion robot, brainchild of German engineer Frank Kirchner, can descend steep cliffs, climb rough terrain, and squeeze […]
This post if for Julian who missed the panel Games, Made in… at Transmediale. And sorry for the […]
Producers of reality TV show Guantanamo Guidebook claim to have recreated torture techniques used at US detention camp […]
R&Sie architecture company’s project for the future Bangkok Art Museum feeds of the city’s pollution. Called Dusty Relief, […]
The Soft Stove, by Dutch designers Van Eijk and Van der Lubbe, is a working wood-burning stove made […]
Airplanes that never got built. Via Elastico Things mag.
The story on the fluorescent chicken (see post below) reminded me France Cadet ‘s DogLab project. Her five […]
South Korean scientists successfully produced a chicken, which inherited a fluorescent character from its green-tinged transgenic father, opening […]
RSA Security and i-Mature are working on a technology for verifying users’ age by analyzing finger bones. One […]