Universal Whistling Machine, by Canadian artists Marc Böhlen and J.T. Rinker, is an attempt at developing a communication […]
Tokyo-based architect Masaki Endoh teamed up with Masahiro Ikeda to design a double apartment on a site at […]
Scott Hamel, who lost the use of his legs 27 years ago, volunteered for a brain wave project […]
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Dogs with paralyzed hind legs could walk again courtesy of a shot of a chemical cousin of antifreeze […]
First, there was SoundSlam , a punching bag with 12 pressure sensors, a global acceleration sensor and a […]
Ghost in the Cave (created by KTH, Stockholm; Octaga/ Telenor, Oslo; DIST InfoMus Lab, University of Genoa; DEI, […]
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After NEC’s biodegradable corn-based laptops and Pioneer blue-ray optical disk made of corn starch, Victor (JVC) has developed […]
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Standards and Double Standards” installation consists of 4 surveillance cameras, a tracking system and fifty fastened […]
When Maartje Lammers and Boris Zeisser, principals of the Rotterdam-based practice 24H Architecture, bought an 18th-century fisherman’s cottage […]
In the UK, holiday retailer Thomson is now offering a virtual holiday experience with a 3D full-sensory guided […]
Concrete Music, by the DSP Syndicate , is a music processor that gives life to songs. Instead of […]
“almost certified (grade A noise for non-discerning consumers)”, by Kelli Cain and Brian Crabtree, is a mechanical sound […]
An interactive work by Wafaa Bilal and Shawn Lawson gives an astonishing twist to Eduard Manet’s painting A […]
London-based artist Stephen Rumney has set up a virtual gallery where art lovers can buy a piece of […]
Toyots’a “i-unit” aims at uniting the driver and vehicle to expand human abilities and possibilities. The upright position […]
Grand Thieves’ Audio Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, game of theft, prostitution, drugs, and beautifully animated racist depictions […]
Mines continue to maim and kill between 15,000 and 20,000 people each year according to UNICEF. Around 90 […]
Researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland are unraveling the circuitry in an eel’s spinal cord […]
Rio de Janeiro has a Christmas tree floating on a lagoon and London’s Tate Britain has just unveiled […]
Seattle-based company GloVentures plans to release early 2005 Glofun RayGun, a GPS ghost-hunting game for mobile phones. A […]
Spinne , by Laura Beloff and Erich Berger (the duo from the Seven Mile Boots), is a networked […]
Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized the “ornithopter”, a self-powered flying machine which mechanical flapping wings […]
Jean-Luc Marchina ‘s Tongs installation plays on the idea of “interactive cinema”. In front of the visitor are […]
Brooklyn-based Michelle Rosenberg modifies portable electronic headphones. Some of them allow listeners to share the same sounds; others […]
The woman inside Camille Utterback’s Shaken snow globe responds to the physical gesture of being shaken. The device […]
Arofish is a London-based stencil and graffiti artist who spent three months travelling through Iraq and Palestine, “painting […]
Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, created in 1917, has been named the world’s most influential piece of modern art by […]
Dr Karl Swann, and a team at the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff, claim to […]
Spansih artists Carlos Corpa and Ana María García Serrano got a third prize at the Art & Artificial […]
NASA considers farming a matter of survival for future long-term space missions. But who will care for crops […]
The scenario of the Mobile Confessional is as follows: When you see the vehicle (called projectCAR) while stuck […]
Circular Breathing , by Scott Snibbe, is a personal breath recorder. You breath and blow into the mouthpiece […]
Breathing Chaos is a new installation work by media artist Sachiko Kodama. A small, black mountain grows organically […]
Danish designer Alex Soza‘s Bionic Jacket registers whether you’re cold or sweating. It reacts at low temperatures by […]
Already 7,00 p.m and I haven’t blogged any “wearable” so far. Here you go: A first mask from […]
Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman (with Gerfried Stocker, Erwin Reitböck, Horst Hörtner, Dietmar Offenhuber, Christopher Lindinger, Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth, […]
You love to play table tennis, but have no partner? Just install Butterfly Amicus 3000 , the table […]
HERE, by Jason Wilson and the members of (N.I.N.E), is a pervasive game allowing 2-16 people to get […]
The Paragraphie installation, by Manon De Pauw, has a very low-tech appearance: a chair, a table with used […]
York University (Canada) Prof. Vincent Tao has developed a satellite mapping technology that enables users to visually zoom […]