I was so so proud to read the presentation of the new Eyebeam reBlogger. Max, the hidden half […]
DJs play music as they demonstrate Toyota Motor Corp’s concept car “Hiace Sound Satellite” at a press preview […]
I stumbled by chance on a walking chair developed by Toyota as one of its set of partner […]
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A Bulgarian company, located in Sofia, is working on a full scale humanoid called Kibertron The aim is […]
From sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, Orthodox Jews are forbidden to work, write, and drive which means no […]
Honda Motor has built a jet engine and ultralight airframe that could be put together to make a […]
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While the European Commission has launched a shock campaign against tobacco for those who are more motivated by […]
Interactive designer Theo Humphries, from the Royal College of Arts in London, is working on the “under(a)wareables” project […]
Scientists are developing a technology that could detect changes inside individual cells while those cells are still inside […]
Part of the Barcelona-based company Metalarte’s Metalab series, the battery-operated waterproof floating lamp, designed by Héctor Serrano, lends […]
Kindercity, a science park for children in Zürich (Switzerland), tags its young visitors with an RFId microchips. Instead […]
Dave Slocombe and Natasha Sopieva, from the Interactive Design Institute in Ivrea, have updated an old Fiat 500 […]
The “Light Sleeper Duvet“, by Loop.ph, is an illuminating alarm integrated into your bedding that wakes you up […]
Interactive designer Tom Jenkins and Mark Hauenstein made the audio shaker that traps anything sung, spoken, clapped, whistled […]
AlertBox, going on sale in the UK this week (£147), allows neighbours to warn each other about “dodgy […]
South Africa inventor Noel Mey has created a device that can detect alcohol on a driver’s breath. The […]
“Oribie Navi Land” is a GPS school bag for tracking kids created by Japanese school bag manufacturer Kyowa […]
Yesterday evening, I went to the SimpleTEXT audio/visual performance by Family Filter. I was looking forward to it, […]
Building With Books began in 2004 in MIT, and is currently on display at the Boston Public Library […]
Dr. Robert M. Nelson is neither conspiracy theorist nor midnight blogger, but a senior research scientist for NASA […]
Yesterday evening, I went to the retrospective of RND# (computer jargon for “random number”) by British film director […]
Can’t believe how lucky I am! I had lunch today with Andrem Shoban from Greyworld whose work I […]
Thinking Machine 4 explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Play chess against a transparent intelligence, its evolving […]
We’re not sure what this is. A stopwatch? depth gauge? pedometer or geek jewelery? …the tempo claims it’s […]
Researchers are working out the rules for a future code of social behaviour in human-robot interaction, reports the […]
Rebecca Allen gave a brief presentation of the Human Connectedness group and in particular of the following projects: […]
Still during Rebecca Allen’s talk: The MindGames group at MIT media lab Europe which develops technologies that can […]
Rebecca Allen also taleked about MIT media lab group called “Palpable machines“, which works a lot with our […]
Rebecca Allen group at MIT lab is called “Liminal devices”, it studies the frontiers between the virtual and […]
Fascinating talk by Rebecca Allen from MIT media lab in Dublin. She first talked about one of the […]
Martin Chatrand, Director of SAT and R&D presented SAT in Montreal (Quebec) a transdisciplinary centre focussing on the […]
Since yesterday afternoon, Emily Turettini is nice enough to take care of Near Near Future. Thanks Emily! I’m […]
Some readers have tried to insert comments but it seems that they are “censored” althought they are not […]
The “Stop Motion Studies” are a series of experimental documentaries that chronicle my interaction with subway passengers in […]
Canadian Researchers are working on the nose-mouse, and other unorthodox ways of moving a cursor. From The New […]
High tech merged with high fashion yesterday during a two-day exhibition for next-generation computers hosted by the Ministry […]
metaltelephony is a networked poem which takes any web page you feed it, grabs the source code of […]
I’m going to attend the ArtFutura festival in Barcelona October 28th-31st. The theme this year is Augmented Reality. […]
The Temporary Travel Office offers services relating to tourism and technology aimed at exploring the non-rational connections existing […]
Los Angeles-based company Allerca is now taking reservations (costs $3,500!) for the world’s first genetically engineered hypoallergenic cats. […]