Barcelona-based French artist Thomas Charveriat creates installations that use GPS, SMS, video, sound, electronic data to interact with […]
Among his final projects for last semester, Kuan Huang, an NYU’s ITP student, has created Virtual Instrument and […]
Ivy by Dutch designer Joris Laaman (who had designed a decorative radiator made of concrete and is one […]
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txOom is a responsive PlaySpace, where the participants are invited to actively take part in transforming the environment; […]
Activity Wallpaper , by research assistant at the Viktoria Institute (Sweden) Tobias Skog, explores how a place can […]
Fancy a $3,250 Canadian trip to the edge of the Arctic, sleeping five nights in an igloo that […]
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“Digital Cubes”, by Simon Schiessel, is a “dominoes” game played with electronic cubes. Placed next to one another, […]
The Choice installation by environmental artist Kerry Morrison and botanist Alicia Prowse highlights the human factor in changing […]
Moments of Grey, by Tasmanian artist and researcher Robin Petterd, are prototype responsive objects which evoke those found […]
Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology claim to have fathered the world’s smartest robot able […]
Florentine avant-garde architecture collective Superstudio was at the heart of the architectural and design avant garde in the […]
Tokyo-based architecture and design company nendo has an impressive portfolio. You wouldn’t tell by the look of the […]
Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor at USC, has devised a robot that, guided by architect’s computerized drawings, can squirt […]
You have till Monday 10 to nominate your favorite weblogs for the fifth Bloggie awards. If you don’t […]
By adopting one of derstrudel ‘s robots, you accompany the creation of the robot and the projects it […]
A wireless birthing simulator, designed by students at Johns Hopkins University, allows the doctor to know precisely how […]
As researchers develop more sophisticated protheses for locomotion, research has also focused on phantom limb sensations of amputees […]
As a first step to reach its objective to be the first in the automobile industry to use […]
The result of Design Within Reach Champagne Chair Contest are online. Entrants had to craft the chairs using […]
Geckos feet can stick to almost any surface while remaining mysteriously clean of dirt and sand. “In fact […]
Rotundus AB in Sweden has developed a spherical robot. By moving an internal mass, the robot run in […]
Tiny exploding capsules could be used to deliver targeted chemotherapy directly to tumours, without affecting healthy cells. The […]
Core77 has a report about its trip to NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Winter Show. Among its favourites is Fish-byte.net, […]
Subscribers to “This Mobile Will Change Your Life” will receive SMS orders they must carry out immediately. Orders […]
microRevolt projects investigate the dawn of sweatshops in early industrial capitalism to inform the current crisis of global […]
Three years ago, Rotterdam-based architects bureau MVRDV imagined a pig city to change farming production and solve problems […]
Taking in account that pigs can be ideal pets, it might be time to question the idea of […]
David Small‘s Illuminated Manuscript explores new types of reading in tune with human perceptual abilities. Projected typography is […]
Five historic waterfront buildings in Red Hook (New York) will be razed to make way for a parking […]
Habitgram, by Montreal-based artist Beewoo, is a surveillance coat that the visitor is invited to wear. Inside the […]
“Waiter!” (Theres a fly in my soup), by product designer Tobias Wong is a simple soup bowl that […]
A few days ago, I saw this Humiliator , a comfortable gag that may be worn for extended […]
«Sensorama», invented by Morton Heilig in 1962, offered multi-sensorial impressions of a ten-minute-long motorcycle ride through New York. […]
Gail Wight‘s Rodentia Chamber Music is a small ensemble of five transparent chamber instruments. They are inhabited by […]
The Playbot calendar, made by scientists for scientists, stars robots in insinuating positions and displaying their “private areas.” […]
Jiwon Kim, Steven M. Seitz (University of Washington) and Maneesh Agrawala (Microsoft Research) are working on the Video-Based […]
Alf Linney, a specialist in facial reconstruction, and artist Alexa Wright have designed Alter Ego which allows people […]
Yoshiyuki Sankai, from the University of Tsukuba in Japan, has developed a 15-kilogram neuro-commanded robot suit to “bring […]
Green Cycle, by Taiwan-based designers Wei-Ran Lee and Bo-Chin Chu, is a memo paper pad that comes with […]
You help Tsunami victims by donating airline miles to The Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, OxFam, Unicef and […]