The Polite Umbrella, by Joo Paek, respects people’s personal space in a public area. This shrinkable umbrella enables […]
Bill Pechet and Stephanie Robb’s SweaterLodge envisions a future where daily objects become multifunctional: a sweater becomes a […]
The University of British Columbia is working on the first human-made species — a microbe made from scratch. […]
Fujitsu is to construct a system utilizing its biometric palm vein authentication technology for Naka city’s new public […]
I’m having more and more fun with Cloclo. i neglected him last week but we played a lot […]
Global information technologies are producing new territorial principles of order and new logics of space, as well as […]
Viacom Outdoor has developed the Lightning Poster that adds flashing effects to outdoor advertising. Bacardi Flavours is already […]
This collection is one of the best i’ve seen on flickr so far. The author took photographies of […]
Awesome pictures of Wolkswagen Phaeton assembly plant in Dresden, Germany. Via Jalopnik. And if you dig car factories, […]
Peter Feigenbaum crafts model trains passing through neglected neigbourhoods, complete with graffiti on the walls. Using photographs he […]
Frida V. is a computer-enabled bicycle that allows riders to map open WIFI nodes in urban spaces. It […]
From 2006 Britain will be the first country where every journey by every car will be monitored. Using […]
General Electric merged computer and scanning technologies into a remotely-monitored system that promises to get airport passengers through […]
Dentimundo offers citizens of the U.S., a wealthy country where 42 million people do not have health benefits, […]
Two days ago, i was playing with my super-pet, wondering if he’d recognise himself in the mirror and […]
Meat Helmet looks at the absurd attempt of fast food chains to market to the health conscious. SWAMP‘s […]
When in Wales a couple of weeks ago, i had the chance to meet Glenn Davidson and Anne […]
I stumbled on a futuristic project proposed by the brilliant Makato Sei Watanabe for Milan. His Fiber Tower […]
TransPose, by Feedtank, is a computer vision based instrument that addresses the absence of physical human expression found […]
Shoppers in Paisley (Scotland) have been banned from entering some retail outlets wearing hoods and baseball caps. Police […]
The Lighting Research Center and ASSIST are developing a flexible interior infrastructure that will integrate solid-state lighting with […]
Living With Things explores how and to what degree an object can be subjectified by a person’s imagination […]
Greyworld‘s Urban Sketches makes the space and its inhabitants both the subject of the work and its authors. […]
More about the Aibo i’ve been sent to test a couple of weeks ago. I have the feeling […]
The Tuimelhuis (Tumbling House), designed by architects Koers, Zeinstra and Van Gelderen, represents a mobile component of the […]
In A Terrible Beauty, Jennifer Angus reflects upon the warmth and comforts of home, travel, storytelling, and the […]
Max-Online has a small gallery of Renzo Piano‘s superb building for Peek & Cloppenburg flagshipstore in Cologne (Germany). […]
Lance Hosey, of Atmo, and Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin, of the Living, are working toward a similar […]
70’s commercial for the Dodge Charger 500. Via blography.
Two Chinese policemen patrolling in Pekín, where temperatures have dropped well below zero. Via 20 minutos (if the […]
Pleinmuseum is a mobile and flexible exhibition pavilion for public spaces. During daytime, the pavilion remains closed and […]
Peter Marigold (who is part of the group that designed the truly gorgeous PSP-sculptures) at the RCA in […]
Now for a bit of self-promotion… Hurrah! Wmmna has a new sponsor this month: the Royal College of […]
Thomas Heatherwick, famous for works such as the opening pedestrian bridge in west London that curls up into […]
I can’t stand the sight of blows or blood and i don’t understand why i’ve got such a […]
After a successful CrashCourse in August 2005, Mediamatic is organising a 2-day workshop on social tagging, or MOBTAGGING, […]
Edwin van der Heide and NOX/Lars Spuybroek (who already collaborated on the Son-O-House) are working on Whispering Garden […]
A team at Stanford University has built the prototype of an intelligent walker with embedded sensors, voice recognition […]
Reading about Yamaha‘s layouts and assembly instructions to help you create realistic papercraft motorcycle models this morning (via […]
MorphoTower, by Sachiko Kodama, is a kind of a dynamic sclupture made of mysterious black fluid. It’s conceptualized […]