Near Berlin, a former zeppelin hangar has been transformed into Europe’s largest covered leisure resort (five million cubic […]
On four wheels, the iBot (Individual Balancing Optimized Transporter) wheelchair bumps up kerbstones. On two wheels it raises […]
Queen’s University ’s Human Media Lab (HML) has created an “attentive” office cubicle that blocks noise and visual […]
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On March 1, for the upcoming Geneva Motor Show, Swiss car designer and solution specialist Rinspeed and plastic […]
The 2 and a half meter length Zizi the Affectionate Couch, by the art-science team Stephen Barrass, Linda […]
More magic carpets… Brian Knep‘s Healing Series are interactive floor pieces that change in response to visitors. When […]
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Petra Trefzger ‘s Flying carpet is decorated with geometric patterns that swirl around your feet as you walk […]
Adding an artistic twist to the Origami-folding robot , the Oribots begin as small, compact units, and then, […]
We already knew that video games calm kids before surgery more effective than tranquilizers or parental presence. During […]
Groups in Germany and Austria have launched campaigns protesting the commercialization of Christmas. The main target is Santa, […]
Virsual, the digital rocking horse, created by Melbourne-based, multi-media collectiveENESS, is a wireless rocking horse equipped with its […]
I’m developing a fascination for interactive tables. I’ve already blogged some* and have more in store. Here’s two […]
Albert Libchaber and his team at Rockefeller University have made the first steps towards creating a form of […]
Bioartists Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin from Art Orienté Objet question manipulation of living creatures by science and […]
We had anti-wifi and frequency selective wallpapers, now Christos Mias at the University of Warwick (UK) has devised […]
The “circuit box” concepts tries to answer the problem of shrinking living space. This multifunctional furnishing system is […]
BioWall is a wall that pulsates beneath people’s fingers, repairs itself and even selfreplicates, by EPFL researchers. Visitors […]
elf – electronic-life-forms, Pascal Glissmann and Martina Höfflin, is a two-part installation. The first part shows photographs of […]
Many (wireless) users are unaware of the unencrypted nature of some public networks and that their traffic can […]
Force-sensing fabric company Eleksen will show a fabric keyboard and joystick at the beginning of next year. The […]
RAW is an audiovisual recording device, developed by MIT Media Lab Europe researchers Joelle Bitton, Stefan Agamanolis and […]
Mathematicians Hinke Osinga and Bernd Krauskopf, of Bristol University have represented the Lorenz equations with 25,511 crochet stitches. […]
“Touching Thoughts“, by Belgian artist Sara Nuytemans, is an interactive, mixed-reality installation that shows the video image of […]
Matt Siber ‘s Floating Logos project eliminates the poles that allow signs to be viewed from a long […]
drift , by Australian digital media artist Alex Davies (in collaboration with with Daniel Heckenberg), is a sightseeing […]
Glasgow Caledonian University (Scotland) has set up the eMotion Laboratory , a living room with a two-way mirror […]
H-Alpha Solar, a research by a pool of European scientists, is investigating how flexible solar panels can be […]
UK bakers Kingsmill is to sell limited edition of bread shaped in Elvis’ image to celebrate his 70th […]
On Sunday 19 and Monday 20, students of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (Tisch School of the Arts in […]
The Son-O-House , by NOX architects (Lars Spuybroek) and media artist Edwin van der Heide, is an interactive […]
In 2001, on the request of Temporary Services , Angelo, an American incarcerated artist, wrote “Prisoners’ Inventions“, some […]
Honda Motor has announced the next-generation ASIMO that acts much more nimbly in real-world environments. A new Posture […]
ROBORIADA is a video game-like performance, created by artists Boryana Dragoeva and Oleg Mavromatti, where two Robo-Sapienses (human […]
MIT scientists have cultured small pieces of heart tissue which beat in the same way as the organ. […]
A collaborative group of researchers is working to develop a network of sensing devices and water-monitoring robots, including […]
Massey University (New Zealand) engineering graduate Tim Brooks has developed a teleoperated robotic arm and control system that […]
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr of the Tissue Culture & Art Project have “grown” a quarter-scale replica of […]
A Toyota engineer demonstrates the manoeuvrability of the Joint Vehicle. The vehicle can travel in any direction by […]
Italian research laboratory Grado Zero Space has developed the I.O.W. (Intelligent Object to Wear), a kind of portable […]
Korean scientists claim to have created genes that a robot can pass on to other robots. Professor Kim […]