While queuing at the post office, i found pictures of this amazing Feuerwehrzentrale (fire station), designed by BFM […]
Extremes of temperature can cause small cracks to open in the superstructure of spacecraft, as can impacts by […]
Dylan Tinlun Chan builds delightful robot toys out of junk electronic components. Jia-Yi-Bing is a series of three […]
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Australian digital artist Pierre Proske is working with researchers at the Viktoria Institute in Sweden to develop intelligent […]
A new project by La Fabricadecosasbonitas (The Factory of Pretty Things) has recently been awarded money as an […]
The hi-tech prison in Lelystad (The Netherlands) opens, and locks, its doors to low-risk inmates this week. In […]
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The Fruitfly farm is Laura Beloff‘s second piece in the same series as The Head, a “wearable sculpture” […]
Alison Lewis has launched a brilliant website: SWITCH, an online DIY show where she and her friends focus […]
In the ongoing conflict between the Japanese whaling activities and environmental activists, Greenpeace yesterday pulled off a great […]
Dr Hasan Alam, at Massachusetts General Hospital, says patients could soon be put into a state of suspended […]
By the 2010s, Korea is expecting to see security robots assisting police and the military, patrolling the neighborhoods, […]
PlayPals are wireless figurines with their electronic accessories that allow children aged 5-8 to communicate between remote locations. […]
Foster and Partners‘ Philology Library in Berlin utilizes decades of research into the use of active and passive […]
Toshiba will launch in early 2008 the world’s first elevators controlled by magnetic levitation. The company will employ […]
In bed with fever and a super flu. I hate that of course, but as this guy says… […]
Ether Beat are compatible garments that sense, process, transmit and receive the ECG wavelength. A singlet (Under Beat) […]
Stanley Ruiz‘ barong analog is a wearable electronic sound generator, based on the concept of modular synthesizers. Still […]
Lightbulb explores and blends two phenomena: the stabilization of unstable systems using feedback, and wireless power transmission. Feedback […]
Synthetic biologists are designing and manufacturing “complicated biological circuitry:” bacteria that blink on and off like Christmas tree […]
Beggar, a robot for the materially deprived is constructed entirely from donated old computer hardware and spare parts […]
As i’m reading, obsessing and blogging about the quest for a robotic world mainly in Korea and Japan, […]
Ian Bogost and Persuasive Games have just released Disaffected!, a parodical critique of working life at FedEx Kinko’s, […]
Bibi made my day. She has created a playlist with 60’s French pop videoclips, some from Françoise Hardy, […]
Monokakushitono Hibi (Days with Monokakushi), by Kiyoko Ishida, is a student video project at Tama Art University, which […]
Philips has developed a common language for describing eperiences within an Ambient Intelligence environment: the Physical Markup Language […]
Audio/Viscera explore ways in which sound can be treated as an architectural material. The user wears a helmet […]
Takehiko Sanada‘s Prefab Coats can be worn as coats or transformed into blankets, sleeping bags or even emergency […]
“All visitors are shown their host’s model kennels, where he breeds magnificent Alsatians. Some of his pedigree pets […]
Finding Dutch eating manners and tastes rather gross*, Japanese graduate from Design Academy Eindhoven Kuniko Maeda decided to […]
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In Knifeandfork‘s immersive installation, 5 ’til 12, visitors are invited to watch four characters, on four monitors, as […]
Animaatiokone (Animation Machine) is an installation that turns you into a master clay animator. It’s built of a […]
The Conversation Table reflects on a type of social dynamics that takes place at tables during conversations. Who […]
In 1994, ART+COM presented Terravision, an installation that enabled users to navigate in a 3D model of the […]
New York architect Evan Douglis explores the generation of changeable environments supported by digital techniques. Auto Braids / […]
Capturing the Wumpus is a variation of Gregory Yob‘s game Hunt the Wumpus. Performers play a game in […]
This is for the mysterious three readers (three? i might be optimistic) i might have in groovy Piemonte. […]
British scientists are seeking permission to create hybrid embryos by fusing human cells with rabbit eggs. If granted […]
Something to add to my list of “I want one of those.” VistaCrafts RFIQin, available in Japan, comes […]
Gemma Shusterman‘s Endangered Senses project was inspired by our tendency to equate our perceptions to those of the […]