Sidewalk Art

Julian Beever is an English chalk artist who has been creating trompe-l’oeil chalk drawings on pavement surfaces since the mid-1990s. His works are created using a projection called anamorphosis, and create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle. Well, I’ve always admired his clever works and I think he’s a real…

The Power of Small: Nanomachines ON THE REAL

Nanotechnology transcribes to the side of Hayles‘ article talking about the absolute change within a people’s society, politics, technology and culture within the posthuman context. These times, the body itself can be implanted by the net result of thousands of years of evolutionary technological advancement. Although the goals proposed by nanotechnicians are that of human…

Neo-Human Evolution (Concept from the movie Waking Life)

Immediately while reading the paper about posthumanism, I thought about the relatively unknown concept of the Neo-Humans. I was reminded about the time scales of the human population. It took two billion years for evolution of life on Earth, six million for the hominid, a hundred thousand years for mankind as we know it. So…

uram choe’s work : 1

Uram Choe makes some pretty cool things they almost look futuristic. It seems to represent mechanical creatures of some sort, what does everyone else think??? It kinda grosses you out the same way a bug would gross you out.

To Touch

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are a pair of artists who use objects and spaces to create specific environments. Much of their work is interactive, and meant to be altered by the viewer through sound, touch, or simply presence. This is an old wooden work bench that the viewer touches in different places to…

LucidTouch

Microsoft Techfest launch the mobile device which is LucidTouch, the users can see their fingers from the back of the LucidTouch device. The device that use to see the finger is “pseudo-transparency”. It is easy for those who getting problem with small screens and big fingers. It is also solve the problem that we get…

John Whitney

John Whitney pioneered computer-generated animation art, beginning in the 1950s, when he invented a mechanical analogue computer to create his experimental computer animation work. He created this computer by repurposing a WWII antiaircraft gun detector. Whitney created templates for his designs, and placed them on three rotating tables, which allowed for multi-layered animation design. Design…

Reactive Sparks: LED Traffic-Responsive Towers

Markus Lerner created these seven towers with over 110,000 LED’s each. The towers collect traffic data in Munich, Germany, and use wave patterns to depict the corresponding traffic situations in the area. As traffic increases, the waves at the bottom of the panels get larger and increase in speed. There is also a spark which…

Kinetic Ambient Reflection Membrane

Nicknamed the FLARE system, the kinetic ambient reflection membrane functions as an adaptable building surface. Each individual unit of the system functions as a movable metallic mirror controlled by computer guided pistons. These pistons move each unit to reflect ambient and direct light off of the bright sky and the darker ground. When acting together,…

OiTV by Mark Hauenstein

You know those wonderful moments when the technology gods decide they have it out for you, and all you want to do is throw your computer across the room, smash your cell phone, or smack your television? Well, Mark Hauenstein is here for us all with a product that lets you express those frustrations. He…

Kate Hartman’s Energy Harvesting Sneakers

Kate Hartman is developing shoes which look strangely similar to the popular Heely’s but offer some unique differences. These shoes actually use the energy that the user produces through rolling on the wheels in the shoes soles to power a small microcomputer which resides in the sneaker. This microcomputer can communicate with the user through…

The Three Sirens A Self Learning Rock Band

The Three Sirens is a self learning band created by Nicolas Anatol Baginsky. The band members are all robot musicians who are not controlled by humans, instead they improvised in response to each other. The band members are Aglaopheme, Peisinoe, and Aciilyzer . Since the band has started a few other robots have joined the…