spime

Pollution has never been so fashionable: A pair of NYU grad students have created a high-tech sweatshirt emblazoned with pink lungs that suddenly show blue veins when exposed to dirty air. (via Grad students create color-changing clothes that detect air pollution)

Housed in Tezuka’s Woods of Net pavilion is a work by Japanese net artist Horiuchi Macadam. Via.

Engineering for Change provides a forum to connect, collaborate, solve challenges and share knowledge among a growing community of engineers, technologists, social scientists, NGOs, local governments and community advocates, who are dedicated to improving the quality of life all over the world.

(Source: poptech)

MAP Office, ‘Crab Island’, 2010.

(Source: polychroniadis)

pavement Karl Gude ben fry : shriyashriyashriya

The Urban Speaker is an art installation that transforms public space into an instant stage for mass communication. This portable urban furniture allows people to broadcast their voice in public by calling a telephone number from their mobile phones. A QR (Quick Response) barcode on the sign allows some mobile phones to instantly access the website for location, event and other details as well as quick dialing of the installation’s phone.

(Source: bashford)

Light Form is a patterned light wall that is revealed and created when the user folds back small wenge wood panels. Some elements of Light Form hold an inner light made of electroluminescent film, while the rest of the elements increase the perception of light just using the white of its surface.

The Smart Finger is a device that caps your thumb and forefinger (or any 2 fingers) and uses the signals relayed between the two finger points to calculate the measurement. 

(Source: annatar-architecture)

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world. BERG uses photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that make 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation. /via @calebkramer