Mike McCracken’s Audio Ping Pong using “an arduino, headphones and an accelerometer” to retrofit pong into an audio game. The object of the game is to tilt your head along with where the “ball” sounds like it is in space, if you stray off this path, you lose the game. As the game continues, the…
Author: Sabrina
Techno Impressionist Museum
The curator of this web museum claims that ” Techno impressionism is the last art movement of the 20th century and the first art movement of the 21st.” That may be so, although I would tend to group it in with new media art which has been around since the 1960’s ( or if you…
Famicon NES Case
This is a cool mod out of France; an entire Famicon console housed in a NES game cartridge. It has two controller ports, video out, and even a reset switch. Unfortunately, the mod does require the destruction of a cartridge, but I certainly have a few old video game cartridges which no longer work or…
city-scale energy consumption
This coal burning power plant has become the target for an eco-visualization project. The title of the project is Nuage Vert (green cloud), and its purpose is to illuminate the vapor of the burning coal with a neon green laser beam. This is projected above the city and as the cloud grows bigger, it is…
Turn Signal Biking Jacket
In the world of wearables, the LilyPad Arduino, a washable set of sensors and electronic components, is allowing for innovative new wearable electronics. Leah Buechley used the LilyPad Arduino to create a biking jacket that displays turn signals. To activate, the user simple clicks a button within their wrist and the turn signal responds accordingly….
Cute Little Firefighting Bots
Sorry, this little guy is only a concept now, but the industrial-design studio at the University of Magdeburg-Stendal is very pleased with OLE ( off-road loeschenheit, auf Deutsch, or off-road extinguishing apparatus). Ole will be equipped with water tanks and powdered fire extinguishing agents, and presumably will be guided by GPS. The designer says a…
Solar Balloons Offer Low-Cost Energy
What could be more refreshing than casting off your carbon shackles with a bunch of solar balloons? Environmental architect visionary, Joseph Cory, of Geotectura has seized this dream with an award winning way to take solar energy to the skies. He’s teamed up with Technion aerospace engineer Dr. Pini Gurfil to develop an an array…
Brushing Your Teeth: The Game
As a child, brushing my teeth was a chore and I’m sure it took a lot of pressure from my parents for me to brush my teeth on a regular basis, as is the case with most kids. It seems there might finally be a solution to making brushing one’s teeth exciting and fun. Researchers…
Cell Phones Project Cinema
So we all know that watching a movie on your tiny little phone blows. So here comes “Pico Projectors” to the rescue, offering you pocket size projectors to attach to your phone. Expected to hit the market later this year, these external projectors are just the precursors to those that will eventually be built into…
Marta de Menezes: Functional Portraits
This is an example of a portrait done by Marta de Menezes (this portrait is of herself) using both the photographic portrait as well as an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to show what areas of the subject’s brain is active when told to complete a task (say cheese.) This is a response to earlier…
D/A Clock
I have a strange fascination with clocks, perhaps because I feel like they run my life, or maybe because the analog mechanism amazes me. Nevertheless, I have posted about a clock once before once again a clock has caught my attention. Designed by Alvin Aronson , a Furniture Design student at RISD, is an analog…
Lunar Resonant Street Lamps
Though you’d have to buy an e-subscription to read the full article, this link describes a new energy-saving street lamp that has a super sensitive sensor on it, enabling the lamps to gradually dim as the night sky fades to daylight. I think it’s interesting that this project hasn’t been introduced sooner, as the technology…