A few weeks, ago, came the news that Kim Jong-Hwan, the director of the Intelligent Robot Research Lab […]
As I’m going to Berlin tomorrow for the transmediale and club transmediale festival, I’m in the mood for […]
A collection of books, papers, and other material about The Origins of Cyberspace is to go under the […]
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In Sayaka Ohata’s Internal Sense, visitors wear a glove and walk around an empty room. They are invited […]
Stand By Your Guns, by Brooklyn-based artist Jillian McDonald, is a website and CD-Rom that confronts us with […]
DesignBoom has a photo report of the Cologne Furniture Fair which ended on January 23. As it is […]
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Project Sneeze is a collaboration between Brit designers Keigo Harada and Gina Reimann. Together they create simple and […]
For the Surface Design Show 2005, a 3-day event about innovations in the field of surface material and […]
The English government wants schools to buy the Sonica software package – including the dance mat – which […]
A bioartificial kidney has been developed by David Humes at the University of Michigan. It could help intensive […]
Moony, by Akio Kamisato, Satoshi Shibata and Takehisa Mashimo from IAMAS in Japan, uses steam as both a […]
Banabi, by Maurizio Piraccini, is an audio-visual pedagogic gaming experience for young children. The game uses the kids’ […]
An upcoming exhibition in London will show that knitting has become a politically engaged artform, from knitted sex […]
On a Northern Lake Michigan beach, architect David Hanawalt and Sonic Installation artist Bill Close have teamed up […]
The Aurea project, by Team, tries to tackle the lack of attachment that residents may feel towards certain […]
Yoon Eui-sik, at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), has developed a tactile sensor that […]
Scientists at Imperial College London and University of Manchester have found how to make eye cells sensitive to […]
Lois Walpole has developed a way to harvest a willow coat hanger. She grafted the hanger and sawed […]
Listening Glass, by Swiss-Australian artists Rene Christen and Jasper Streit, is an audiovisual instrument that feeds off the […]
Conrad Bakker‘s Untitled Projects: Sidewalk Economies (San Francisco), is a series of digital photographs of fake objects like […]
GPS::Tron , by Thomas Winkler, combines GPS, Bluetooth and GMS or GPRS with the classic Tron game concept […]
Initiated in spring 2002, the Bulbes project, by Montréal artists Artificiel (Alexandre Burton, Jimmy Lakatos and Julien Roy), […]
Shawn Bonkowski (with Dana Gordon) made a desk merged with an answering machine. The Message Table receives, plays […]
Adam Somlai-Fischer, Peter Hudini and Anita Pozna from Aether architecture are working on Induction House , an experimental […]
Strangely Familiar. Unusual Objects for Everyday Life. Episode VI. (I, II, III, IV, V.) Didier Hilhorst and Nicholas […]
ICC, the Intercommunication Center in Tokyo, has opened an “ABC of media art” exhibition: Art meets Media :adventures […]
Shoes that vibrate to signal a rise or fall in share price have been created by researchers at […]
Nikolai Nolan kindly informed us that he arranged today with the Bloggies host to get some extra bandwidth […]
Digiwall, developed at the Interactive Institute in Sweden, is an interactive climbing-wall with sensor-equipped grips that register hands […]
A recent patent application from Hewlett-Packard labs describes a system in which digital cameras would be equipped with […]
Strangely Familiar. Unusual Objects for Everyday Life. Part V. (I, II, III and IV) Speak Out, by Tristam […]
Scientists have begun producing chimeras— hybrid creatures that are part human, part animal. In 2003, Chinese scientists fused […]
Japanese toy makers Tomy (the ones behind the Flip-Flap) and Takara have produced bean plants which sprout to […]
The results of the MACEF design award are out. Candidates had to design home accessories that work with […]
Strangely Familiar. Unusual Objects for Everyday Life. Part IV. (I, II, III) Hayat Benchenaa (with Garikoitz Iruretagoiena) designed […]
On February 4 to 8, sound artists, phonographers, and amateur sound hunters will gather sounds from different places […]
Markus Quarta´s Interactive Surround Sound (ISS) cube enables the user to combine and position human voices, electronic and […]
Third part of part of Strangely Familiar. Unusual Objects for Everyday Life. Oren Horev , Myriel Milicevic (who […]
Drivers could face tolls on congested roads in Greater London under plans to uses roadside beacons to detect […]
For the Electrolux Appliances for the Future competition in November, St. Martins College of Art and Design (UK) […]