MIT engineers, led by Anette Hosoi, have built a robotic snail to test out mathematical models of how […]
Andy Rosen was a rock photographer in London 1976-1984. His pics have been stored since the Punk Days. […]
The Snow Cruiser was designed in 1939 as the ultimate on-ice vehicle (see details). But once on the […]
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electric moOns, by Christopher Bauder, Till Beckmann and Holger Pecht, consists of 10 x 10 helium balloons that […]
The Nintendo Entertainment System entered the US market 20 years ago with graphics capabilities well beyond those of […]
BlastWrap is a blast-dampening material made out of volcanic glass and sealed in food-packaging plastic. The material already […]
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If they could choose, where would domesticated crickets choose to be? Actual nature would be a bit harsh […]
Homeland Security plans to finish a job begun in 1996: building a 14-mile-long wall, 10 to 15 feet […]
Johns Hopkins researchers have devised a self-assembling cube-shaped perforated container, no larger than a dust speck, that could […]
Scientists at the Salk Institute in San Diego have created mice with human brain cells in an effort […]
The Motor Karaoke is a bike race powered by human screams, the louder the faster. The first of […]
The Green Roof Water Recycling System (GROW) is a vegetated rooftop recycling system that uses plants to treat […]
As i mentionned a few days ago, i’ve been sent an AIBO to test and blog about it*. […]
Haile is robotic percussionist that uses computational power and numerical algorithms to listen to live players, analyze their […]
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A few months ago, a political row blew up over government plans (announced in April) to solve Spain´s […]
Robotic “spiders” could help build large-scale structures in space. They would inch their way across large nets of […]
Hugo Liu, a graduate student at M.I.T.’s Media Lab, has developed a cookbook that can recommend a dish […]
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The Altamira project is a neuro-prosthetic that triggers phosphenes by subcutaneous stimulation of the retina with radio waves […]
The Interaction course at the Royal College of Art has recently been undergoing some reorientation. Anthony Dunne’s approach […]
Integrated into one of the windows of the Stavanger City Terminal’s window section (Norway), Biosensor registers people passing […]
Penelope Boston and Steven Dubowsky have received a grant from NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts to work on […]
Online gamers who lack the time and patience to work their way up to the higher levels of […]
Researchers in the Department of Communication Systems, Lancaster University (UK), have developed a game which can be played […]
Last Sunday i visited the ZKM in Karlsruhe (Germany). They have a mind-blowing Light Art from Artificial Light […]
Fermata explores the potential of a purely auditory calendar application for the visually impaired. Through user research and […]
NEC has developed a 0.3-millimeter (0.012-inch) thick, foldable battery to be used in cards or clothes, leading to […]
The design products-department at the Royal College in London teamed up with a company called 3D Systems to […]
Thanks a lot to Marc and Sony who sent me a brand new Aibo to test and play […]
Fritz Haeg is unleashing an attack on the American lawn, this “carpet of conformity.” Over the next three […]
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The Metropolitan police in the UK hopes to fight crime with a campaign based around a spoof computer […]
Santas ghetto is a street level art gallery that brings you some of the most feared names from […]
epiSkin jewelry, by Marta Lwin, explores the decorative technological control over biology to create an artifact which is […]
Burn Station is a mobile self-service for searching, listening to and copying music and audio files with no […]
You’ve been sent to a 31st-century prison, where puzzles will help you crack the security system and escape. […]
Liberation, by Hisashi Murata, is an installation using a robot that unleashes itself to die whenever it comes […]
Lintec is marketing in Japan solar-powered traffic signs that have no electric wiring and consume no electricity. The […]
As Régine was hinting at, I flew to London to sneak into the Design Products-show at the Royal […]