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Pollution has never been so fashionable: A pair of NYU grad...

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:13:51 -0500

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...

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:13:36 -0500

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,...

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:13:21 -0500

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.

Arduino the Documentary

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:52:54 -0500

Arduino the Documentary

MAP Office, ‘Crab Island’, 2010.

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:47:21 -0500

MAP Office, ‘Crab Island’, 2010.

pavement Karl Gude ben fry : shriyashriyashriya

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:55:12 -0400

pavement Karl Gude ben fry : shriyashriyashriya

The Urban Speaker is an art installation that transforms public...

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:55:29 -0400

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.

Light Form is a patterned light wall that is revealed and...

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:02:12 -0400

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...

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:23:58 -0400

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.

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting explores playful uses...

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:21:00 -0400

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

Paillard Punch is concept centred around punch cards and...

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:06:00 -0400

Paillard Punch is concept centred around punch cards and connecting the past with the present through sound. Each visitor will receive their own punch card onto which they can perforate a unique pattern. They can then put them into the card reader and the pattern they punched will appear lit up on a linen screen.

Protagonist-Antagonist consists of earthenware collection copied...

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:57:00 -0400

Protagonist-Antagonist consists of earthenware collection copied through the process of 3D-scanning and 3D-printing. These clones, the antagonists, were placed in front of the archaeological objects. Visitors could take these objects in their hands and with their fingers follow the traces drawn half a millennium ago while looking through the glass of the vitrine at the real untouchable object. The 3D-printed clones thus mediate the archaeological objects through tactile feedback.

RFID Timeline is a new way of retrieving and showing activities....

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:54:00 -0400

RFID Timeline is a new way of retrieving and showing activities. This system allows one to physically interact with digital documentation. The RFID-tags give visitors a handle into a digital database. Each event is reduced to a moment in time and a number. Only when the visitor gives the archive event his attention does the richness of that past moment erupt when the machine speaks its story and beams its visions.

A Magnetic Curtain you can shape to any form. Through the...

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:48:00 -0400

A Magnetic Curtain you can shape to any form. Through the incorporated structure and magnets, it stays in the shape you push and pull it to.

The Good Night Lamp project is a family of lamps which allow...

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:32:04 -0400

The Good Night Lamp project is a family of lamps which allow people to communicate the act of coming back home to their loved ones, remotely. As you turn the bigger light on, your presence home is indicated to your friends whose smaller lamps turn on as well. Inversely, the smaller lamps that you’ve collected from your friends will turn on/off as they come home, go out, go to bed. You’ll never come back to an empty home again.

Cloudscape explores the poetic nature of clouds by controlling...

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:48:00 -0400

Cloudscape explores the poetic nature of clouds by controlling the microclimate of a space. A layer of artificial clouds are made to hover above the ground level, remaining in balance above the heads of the viewers.

The Aurora Consurgens Project articulates a visual and sonic...

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:47:00 -0400

The Aurora Consurgens Project articulates a visual and sonic installation, sounds that are diffused on a binaural mode, and that transforms the space around, according to the laws of standing waves behavior, and people movments.

The Invisible Sphere contains 215 monitors and 215 cameras. Each...

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:25:42 -0400

The Invisible Sphere contains 215 monitors and 215 cameras. Each camera is opposite to the monitor it feeds. The sphere constantly recreates its surroundings on its monitors from every conceivable angle at all times. The sphere is reflection of media’s attempt to remain revealing as it grows in power and becomes increasingly omni present.

With Invisible TV all the screens in the sculptures have an...

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:22:00 -0400

With Invisible TV all the screens in the sculptures have an associated camera on the other side of the object. When the viewer looks into a screen they see directly through to the other side.

Measuring Angst is a sculpture made possible via a system of...

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:20:00 -0400

Measuring Angst is a sculpture made possible via a system of armatures similar to those one might find within the prehistoric animal exhibits in a natural history museum. They will differ in that they will be mechanically driven and allow for varying positions of the broken marble pieces. A system of electronic drives, stepper motors, ballscrews, linear shafts and computer software similar to what one might find in a high-tech assembly plant provides the movement.