Once in a while, Konomi sends me a link and short translation to pictures of Japanese robot adventures. […]
My notes and images from the Urban Media panel, yesterday, in the Salon, Transmediale. Architecture and public space […]
The LAPD will outfit cars with a device that propels and sticks a GPS onto a fleeing car. […]
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An indecent selection from the WWW Playing Cards Museum: Catchy/DUO Playballs. Via wtbw.
Smile Machines, the main exhibition at Transmediale presents a mix of –nearly– vintage and very recent works which […]
Just listened to a great talk by Norman White in the Mistakology panel. Every technology has its mistakes […]
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Actually three: i’m still at Transmediale, taking notes and making pictures and working with lovely Tim Pritlove on […]
A light-shirt that plays the ‘game of life’ with cool blinking patterns. Craft techniques for making your own shirt. And a research lab that’s got super cool art-engineering goals.
Just arrived in Berlin in Transmediale after 2 fabulous days in Geneva at the LIFT06 conference organised by […]
A new species of flatworm that fences with its penis has just been discovered in the waters of […]
Sharp has developed a humanoid robot that clears dishes from the table and puts them into a dishwasher. […]
The Million Dollar Blocks project will display maps, diagrams, charts and images of prison populations in various US […]
Proactive Desk II, developed by Shunsuke Yoshida, Haruo Noma and Kennichi Hosaka of ATR Media Information Science Labs, […]
Some 4,000 drawings, models and audio tapes produced by Archigram is to be catalogued and digitised over three […]
Spotlight is a set of 16 networked portraits. Each portrait has a set of 9 “temporal gestures” – […]
Would spend ages watching them (his movies i mean). This way! Via Rashomon.
The latest design by Guido Ooms, the guy who had previously designed 100% hair hats and ceramic dildos, […]
The 3.5-meter high robot Enryu may soon be helping communities across Japan reach avalanche sites and clear snow. […]
Italian artists/activists Molleindustria is releasing a new anti-advergame (games that challenge players to rethink their relationship with consumption […]
Kento Miyaoku, a research engineer of NTT and a visiting researcher at the University of Columbia, developed a […]
Finally, someone posted a report on dorkbot #000002 tokyo (in Japanese). So, here’s a quick summary in English. […]
CONFESS.OR is one of the first pieces of Gerhard Schwoiger‘s ReReligion, a series of works that reflect on […]
An Australian researcher has developed a new test for mushrooms that produces a glowing light if they contain […]
Siemens VDO in Germany is working on a vehicle which not only parks itself, but even scans the […]
Toy manufacturer Bandai Co. will start selling from March replica belts identical to the one ’70s superhero Masked […]
wmmna has a new sponsor until the end of May: the Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. A […]
Philips has patented a system allowing collecting card to control a toy or game by playing a special […]
Queer Music Heritage is a radio show and a website. The goal of both is to preserve and […]
Reality Check opens on February 1 and runs until February 6, at C-Base in Berlin. It will feature […]
For The Flying Steamroller (1996), Chris Burden is a a 12-ton Navy surplus steamroller connected to a central […]
Tom Hunter’s latest exhibition, Living In Hell And Other Stories, are large-scale photographs that play on the sensationalist […]
Some men avoid going to the public toilets due to the smelly atmosphere and, unable to find a […]
Brands are passing up the chance to establish emotional connections with consumers because they insist on communicating visually, […]
That’s my luck! I haven’t left Europe for ages because there’s always oemthing exciting going on here. Last […]
It’s two-way torment for Susan as Barbara twists her arm agonizingly behind her back while trying to tear […]
Artgames. Structural analogies of art and game exhibition at the Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany. (Part I.) The exhibition […]
At the end of last year, i read about bio-ink and bio-paper that could make so-called organ printing […]
Nam June Paik, the artist who made me like media art, passed away at his Miami home at […]
Dr Keith Baar and his team at at Dundee University in Scotland are developing patches of tissues for […]
The Racismomaton is an autonomous computarized cabin that, by means of a computer game, allows passersby to take […]