During one week QUIXOTE, a puppet, will explore Turin travelling within a network of writers, undefined at the […]
This weekend saw the UK’s first consumer cosmetic surgery exhibition. The Body Beautiful show aimed at making shopping […]
I’ll be offline till thursday. It will be agony for me. Emily from textually, picturephoning, ringtonia, guest blogger […]
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In July, Team OSAKA won an international competition called Robot Soccer World Cup, held in Lisbon. VisiON, its […]
s()nic object, a music label dedicated solely to original mobile phone ringtones, launches its first ringtone collection during […]
HMV is a board game, created in 2001 by ///fur/////, with which players move semi-autonomous ball robots by […]
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Inspired by graffiti, posters and the Web culture, stickers are now recognized as an artistic phenomenon. Hand-drawn, stenciled […]
In Korea (but this goes for other markets), makers are now promoting MP3 players as a fashion accessory. […]
Emily Conrad makes lockets you can wear on a necklace. They store a USB, a memory chip, and […]
Hundreds of B-52 Stratofortress bombers are stored in the Arizona desert. These planes are preserved for spare parts. […]
The Spacebox is a self-contained studio residence that can be fitted with the help of a light crane. […]
In June, Logitech’s KeyCase won a 2004 Industrial Design Excellence Award. The keyboard wraps around the Palm when […]
The government has decided to work on a spy satellite capable of taking sequential photos of North Korean […]
Piers Tucker, a 24 year-old British graduate from Brunel design school has created a GPS-fitted motorbike helmet that […]
University of Pittsburgh researchers have synthesized a molecule that forms the first “nanocarpet,” whereby the nanotubes organize themselves […]
Scientists at Staffordshire University (UK) have developed a robotic arm that is fully mobile and relatively cheap (€65,000). […]
A video of postal labels against Bush administration. By Max Asare and Evan Roth. You can also print […]
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, FIT, the Icelandic association for graphic designers, Einar Gylfason decided to “creative-open-source” a […]
This one will probably interest nobody but me. But Hé! It’s MY blog and I want to announce […]
Theo Jansen seems to be one of those fantastic crazy Dutch. He builds mobile sculputural creatures of plastic […]
Studies have shown that fish intelligence is much greater than formerly thought. Augmented Fish Reality by new media […]
The Ultimate Game Chair is an ergonomic sensory chair with built in sound system that takes Xbox, Playstation/PS2, […]
Melbourne-based Iatia has been given $2.7 million by the Australian Defence Department to fund development of a military […]
GluttoNY by digital media artist Jarah Moesch is an online game where users can explore and reflect upon […]
Josh Nimoy‘s Robotic Typography recently got a mention by I.D. Magazine at the Student Design Review. The robotic […]
Because of a shortage of staff for materials management the Delta Regional Medical Center of Greenville hired EMMA, […]
A few years ago, Scott Adams, author of comic strip Dilbert, approached IDEO to create Dilbert’s Ultimate Cubicle […]
The UK government has handed £1m in grants and awards to Nanosight, a nanotech company that has developed […]
President’s plenipotentiary in Siberian region Anatoly Kvashnin suggested chief of Russian Armed Forces to use the new self-heating […]
The exhibition on computer viruses (currently at Brown University in the USA till 4th October) is coming to […]
Moving Current’s new season begins Friday at the University of South Florida and is called “Lucid Echoes.” The […]
The Mobile Snoop Service experiment developed by Anab Jain (one of the 2 developpers of the fantastic sketch-a-move […]
Tom Moody says bye bye to Eyebeam ReBlog. “After three weeks monitoring about 100 blog feeds and reposting […]
It seems that starving artists play a vital role in the development of urban environments. They move in […]
The “streetka” dress is the product of a co-operation between Ford Cars and designer British Bruce Oldfield. The […]
Asbos – anti-social behaviour orders – are civil orders tailored by UK courts against a named individual, forbidding […]
A comic book published in 1957 and extolling the marvels of nuclear power. Via del.icio.us/tag/technology.
Takao Someya and his team from the University of Tokyo have devised pressure-sensor arrays (with a density of […]
Rats equipped with radios that transmit their brainwaves could soon be helping to locate earthquake survivors buried in […]
The shortlisted projects of the Designboom ‘100% TILES’ competition are out I loved nearly all the projects. A […]