Two strange but interesting applications for games. Both from Japan. Of course. dwango has released a fishing game […]
The uber-talented guys at aether architecture are working on Ping Genius Loci. This programmable space installation is the […]
Remember the news on Tmsuk‘s robot Kiyomori (engadget called it samuraibot)? I read some Japanese blog posts discussing […]
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Classics and B movies. Via Bello Pubico.
I´m having such a fantastic time here at the Computer Chaos´ congress, that i hardly have any neurone […]
Human relationships are often the battleground for all kinds of psychotic disorders and delusions. One of the strongest […]
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Pretty stimulating introduction speech by Tim Pritlove this morning at the 22 Computer Chaos Congress. I´ll write it […]
Fascinating article in The Economist about the love of Japanese for robots. Made me think of the conversation […]
… till Friday. I’ll be speaking together with Jussi Angesleva at the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress, 22C3: Private […]
Sony Outsider (Gajin) is a true-to-scale replica of the Fat Man, the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki in […]
The Drumtar is a portable performance instrument and musical composition tool. Its four pads trigger drum sounds –or […]
reinraus is a mobile space extension for city apartments. It can be installed on any type of window. […]
There’re some gems here. Via Campheatwole.
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). […]