Just wanted to share this funny video as another late response to Hayles‘ conclusion to post-human. This band called Flight of the Conchords created a song concerning one of the viewpoints in Hayles’ post-human article. Warning: Contains partial profanity and graphic verbal content. Rated F for Funny but not for Family.

This piece showed complete relevance to our current topic on circuits. Made by artist Steve Bishop, these air-dry clay sculpted cats are merged by a single fluorescent tube plugged in their eye sockets. He named this piece “Staring at Cat Staring at Cat Staring” but I also prefer the more literal interpretation that the Gizmodo site said,…

This robot is insanely awesome and ingenious. It does stuff that a real dog could not. i called up my 27 y/o brother who lives in New York and asked him if he knew of anything interesting on youtube. First he said oh type in “kicked in the nuts” and i was like it has…

I find these pieces amazing and really wish I could see them in real life. I have read that the artist elongates the drawing on the sidewalk so that they look normal and 3D as you walk up to them. If looking from a birds eye view you see the deformation. I think it is…

ned kahn is the artist who did the wind leaves scultures in Milwaukee. This is a wind-animated shade screen that consists of thousands of 9-inch squares of perforated aluminum mounted on low friction hinges so that the entire surface of the facade responds to the wind. (http://www.nedkahn.com/)

Electric Sheep, an open source screensaver, is a complex and evolving little project. Created by Scott Draves, this program, upon installation, communicates/dreams with other computers running the program. Spawned from this process are the “Sheep,” or visualization algorithms. Users are free to upload their visualizations to the Electric Sheep server, and users can vote yea…

This is the Britepack Backpack from Tomorrow Incorporated. The object was to create a backpack that is more aesthetically pleasing than just a regular backpack. This backpack uses a motion sensor swith and has a collection of LEDs that light up across your back when you walk. It is a hit because younger kids love…

Feijun Chen and Bin Zhao have designed a pair of running shoes that have head lights on the front of the them. They are made out of a waterproof, breathable material and have a dock of LED’s on the front that allow you to see up to five feet in front of you. They also…

Zippo video I could not find these guy’s real names, but they go by ‘Booty’ and ‘Mr. Twistyneck.’  They have made a living performing tricks with zippo lighters, finding interesting and impressive stylized ways of lighting the lighters and extinguishing them.  What I found most interesting about this concept is that they are exploring multiple…

This interesting take on room lighting functions as both an ambient and direct light source. Designed by a group of New York architects, it’s pretty much a giant digital watch on the ceiling. The clock shows the time in minutes and is the only light source in the room. As the time changes, the frequency…

World of Warcraft Treadmill – Race Across Azeroth with a RunCraftextremely cheap manual treadmills and decided to sense their speed with a mouse rather than trying to hook into the treadmill’s output with some sort of analog interface. It only get to track a little over 4mph. If you were going to run at 12mph…