Grafedia , created by John Geraci, is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to […]
As part of a night-time art display in Munich, called “I see what I see not“, Tim Otto […]
Bioengineers at the University of California, L.A., have created microscopic robots powered by living heart cells, without any […]
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Evidence from psychology is persuading economists that reason does not always have its way when it comes to […]
Smiles in Motion , by Danish artists Kjell Yngve Petersen & Karin Søndergaard, are a set of chairs […]
Media artist Anne Niemetz teamed up with nano-scientist Andrew Pelling to create The Dark Side of the Cell, […]
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This is the table of the day: Froggies, by Josh Nimoy, is a table prototype with a screen […]
Soviet poster collection, from the Tsarist period to 1998. Via The Apartment.
Mutsugoto/Pillow Talk, developed by Tomoko Hayashi, Stefan Agamanolis and Ciaran McGrath, allows distant partners to communicate through drawings […]
Christopher Glaister’s Olson camera is an automatic digital camera that you can leave at a party and it […]
The JL421 Badonkadonk, aka The Donk, is a “land vehicle and battle tank” created by NAO Design. It […]
Paul Baron is reflecting on a massive multiplayer GPS mobile phone green game in Tokyo. It would be […]
The table of the day. In the Sur la table installation, by Osman Khan, actions that occur on/over […]
Apparently, 200 RFID condom vending machines were installed in Shanghai last November. As part of the activities related […]
To represent her sensation that spoken words are somewhat tactile and occupy a certain space, Japanese artist Hisako […]
Each of the Swarm robots on wheels has red, yellow and green lights, like a traffic light. The […]
Nicolas strikes again with a list of interactive walls. I will just add a contribution to his ongoing […]
The HangOut is a 2.9 meters diameter housing module designed –by Vancouver-based Tom Chud– to be suspended from […]
As the European probe Huygens hits the hydrocarbon clouds of of Saturn’s mysterious moon, Titan, it will deliver […]
Here’s the interactive table of the day. RAT, the Rogue Ambience Table, was designed in 2001 by KDR […]
Textron, by IAMAS student Yosuke Kawamura, is a sewing machine that generates sound and images when the user […]
Japanese researchers have turned a humanoid industrial machine into a master of Japanese traditional dance in a bid […]
Scientists at the Centre for Science of the Mind (Oxford University) will carry out experiments on hundreds of […]
Design students at the University of the Art in Berlin were asked to create an interactive extension for […]
The Table: Childhood 1984-2001, by Max Dean and Raffaello D’ Andrea, is a robotic table that selectively interacts […]
Entering schedules and assignments into a computer can be tedious — especially when the act interrupts a conversation. […]
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics is the largest collection of Post World War II graphics […]
Scientists from University of Nottingham (UK) and the Institute of Laser and Information Technology in Troitsk, near Moscow […]
Yoshifumi Kitamura and his team at the Human Interface Engineering Laboratory, in Osaka University, is investigating varieties of […]
In May Dutch company Secure Internet Machines (SIM) will introduce the simPC. Made to ease old people’s fear […]
Stockholm’s Umbilical Design, a firm specializing in designs for space and extreme environments, has been asked by Xero […]
Here’s another interactive table. A particularly gorgeous one. For an exhibition in the Jewish Museum, in Berlin, new […]
The Music Toys, developed by Tod Machover at the MIT Media Lab, are very simple-looking toys that are […]
First part on my revenge over Nicolas! Tableportation, by Interactive Design Institute (Ivrea, Italy) laureates Giorgio Olivero and […]
Nicolas has a great list of interactive tables. I’m a sucker for interactive tables and was deeply offended […]
Social Prototypes, by Toronto-based artist Victoria Scott, is a group of five mechanically driven “handtools”, which are electronically […]
Hop Step Junk, by Japanese artist Sei Matsumura, is an installation which catches up people’s footstep. According to […]
Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris, is a scientific lab specializing in surprising experiments in robotics. One of […]
British TV presenters Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan had to take care of a baby robot for a […]
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits have developed a wireless ball and player location system that […]