In 1936, Alan M. Turing developed the Turing machine, a computing machine with which anything can theoretically be […]
Crack, by German designer Julian Appelius, is a ceramic breadknife and cucumber grater for the preparation of England’s […]
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Second part of Strangely Familiar. Unusual Objects for Everyday Life. Tok Tok, by Aram Armstrong, is one of […]
Roger Ibars‘ Self-made objects have lost any interest in interacting with the users and derive pleasure from themselves. […]
Dielectric, by Fabian Winkler, is inspired by the buzzing sounds that powerlines produce. The installation’s main components are […]
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Currently, creating accurate “virtual sound fields” through headphones is extremely expensive and involves lengthy acoustic measurements. A new […]
Meiju Niskala, Anna Salmi, Richard Widerberg and Hanna Niemi-Hugaerts at the Media Lab in Helsinki have developed Trigger […]
A researcher at Huelva University in Spain claims to have created a version of XML that can transmit […]
Can’t believe it! Near Near Future has been nominated for the 2005 Weblog Awards, aka the Bloggies. Not […]
Saturday evening, instead of swearing at the computer because I find nothing interesting to blog “as usual”, I […]
Waag Society is developing Frequency 1550, a “mobile learning game”. The citygame, using mobile phones and GPS-technology, will […]
Should I call it fetishism? A guy has collected an impressive gallery of Spacesuited Women. Also available in […]
Backseat Playground , developed by John Paul Bichard, Liselott Brunnberg and Oskar Juhlin at the Interactive Institute in […]
So you think that a fork is for eating, a comb for combing your hair, an alarm clock […]
Architect Will Alsop has unveiled his idea of a 80-mile long, 15-mile wide super city. Nicknamed “Prezzagrad”, it […]
To update the Galleria Mall in Seoul, Dutch firm UN Studio and theatre lighting specialist Rogier van der […]
Researchers at Manchester University (UK) have developed a printer able to produce human skin to help wounds heal. […]
The Moltov Projector Media Cartridge , by Gabe Dunne, is a (fictional) weapon for Guerrilla media artists, allowing […]
British designer Onkar Singh Kular‘ objective is to create objects which could exist as comfortably in a gallery […]
Lucy Hibburd, of Falmouth College of Arts (UK), made a project aimed at raising awareness about genetic modification. […]
Affective Media, a Scottish company, has developed an “emotion sensor” which monitors the driver’s speech for signs of […]
The Emancipator Bubble, an idea born in Bilbao (Spain), is the solution to young people’s problems of emancipation. […]
Insects are always a huge hit in interactive installation. The creepier (everyone’s favourite being the cockroach), the better. […]
For three winter months of the year, Rattenberg, a mountain village near Innsbruck, is permanently in the shadow […]
Transfers, a project by Florida-based Matt Roberts, allows the passenger of a taxi to create a unique piece […]
Interactive designer Murat Konar ‘s loopqoob is a set of cubes allowing adults and kids whose motor skills […]
“Only a certain kind of person goes to galleries. But everyone goes to the toilet.” For The Washroom […]
TellBush An Experiment In Telephonic Democracy. you call 1.800.734.1463 and leave GWB a voice message. The message gets […]
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MediaLab Helsinki researcher and artist Vilja Helkiö is developping Puhuva Patalappu, The Squeaking Oven Mitt that speaks, burbs […]
Dr. Michael R. Treat and a team at Columbia University have crafted Penelope, a robotic arm meant to […]
Growing drugs inside plants, instead of making them in factories, could soon be big business. Companies are looking […]
Bathing does not necessarily involve water, according to Esmé Macleod. She imagined a concept of sensory urban public […]
Design galore as the international furniture fair IMM is taking place in Cologne (Germany). Made by Munich-based Pimiento, […]
Bar Soba, a nightclub in Glasgow (Scotland), is about to offer its regulars the option of having a […]
“Streetscape“, by Japanese artist Iori Nakai, is a plastic map with the sounds of the city “attached” to […]
Fridgy, by Israelian designer Yonatan Sadowsky, is a light folding portable refrigerator. Its soft insulating cover is a […]
Another interactive table: Individual Fancies, by British artist Beryl Graham, investigates loneliness and isolation, and ways in which […]
Karakuri (which means “automatic”) Block , by Natsu Kawakita, Nobuya Suzuki and Takahiro Hayakawa, is made of two […]