I came across Gordon Pask’s Musicolour when scanning over a write up of a talk held at the IxDA Interaction 08 conference organized by the Savannah College of Art and Design. The area discussed addressed the incorporation and utilization of boredom in installation based environments. Gordon Pask specifically was interested in exploring the psychological conditions…

What you’re looking at right now is a robot that can be used to bowl a strike every time in Wii Bowling. It is actually built with Legos (NXT Mindstorm Legos, whatever those are). The site itself gives detailed instructions on how to build your own strike bowling robot as well as the software needed…

Beggar is built from discarded computer parts for little or no cost. It is designed to attract and interact with people and beg for money. Beggar is made from four PCs and has a computer screen for a head and a CD drive to collect money. Beggar was meant as a way for the homeless…

High schools all across the country are participating in a robotics competition where a team of students must design and create a working robot to perform specific tasks designated by the competition. The team is given a standard kit of parts and 6 weeks to create their robot. The sky is the limit to what…

with the huge success of guitar her0 1-3, there are many plans and “almost finished” projects for new and exciting guitar hero games. guitar hero has been featured on all consoles from x-box to wii, but they had yet to make it portable…until now. The Nintendo DS will soon be able to play the new…

ok, so I know that wikipedia isn’t necessarily the best place to get completely factual information, but for this topic it seems to be the best way of getting any information about it since the group, “Anonymous” doesn’t seem to have an official web site or anything. basically, an anonymous internet group has been using…

This is a performance piece by Brody Condon, based off the 1973 piece by Bruce Nauman titled “Tony Sinking to the Floor, Face Up and Face Down.”  This work is inspired by the body movement in video/computer games when a character is killed.  The actors are outfitted in medieval/fantasy armor and mimic the animated death…

Michel Waisvisz is a composer/performer of electronic music which is created by using the human body and the actions of touch to generate sound. Much of his work relies on elements of improvisation and chance group interaction. The sound generated through his various contraptions are thus direct products of their environment and conductor’s whims. He…

In February of 2009, the US will force a mandatory end to analog television broadcasts, in a regulated move towards digital upgrade. The shift will ultimately generate an enormous amount of e-waste when old monitors are discarded as useless. Portland-based artists,The Video Gentelman, wonder, “What residue, ghost-images, or other artifacts will persist in the nooks…

The Hill Doesn’t Chant Anymore is a video installation piece from the Istanbul Biennial. It’s creators, Ege Berensel, Serhat H. Yalc inkaya and Banu Onrat use video footage on three side by side monitors to relay a story. The approach is not historic, but personal as villagers act in protecting their health and envoronment from…

While the actual hack used in this link is not that great the idea of using a simple bathroom scale for a variety of hacks is interesting. The natural appearance of the the scale is it’s own disguise and could easily be used to trick people into your own hack project. What would be greater…