The National Ethiopian bank was ripped off for a lot of money in fake, gold plated steel gold bars.They tried to sell them to South Africa but were sent back when the South Africans relized that they were fake. Now the Ethiopians are arresting everyone involved in the sale and transfer of the gold. But…

I have seen how difficult it is for scientist to make a robot walk on two feet, it seems that walking on four legs is a much more simple solution. The advantage to walking on feet instead of rolling on wheels is that you can cover more difficult terrain. This robot dog seems to show…

When we think of the future of gaming, we tend to imagine what Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony can come up with next. But what if the future of gaming is already here? Enter VirtuSphere, and it’s taking the idea of gaming away from the console. The VirtuSphere platform consists of a large hollow sphere that…

Zach Booth Simpson is a molecular biologist and interactive artist. This post was inspired by the interactive video/control workshop this week in which I found out just exactly how easy interactive visual systems can be. This is Zach’s “Comet” piece, which allows people to fire comets at a solar system and see how they function….

Joseph Delappe’s piece “First TV Memory” includes an explanation in the video, but it is a project emulating his first memory of watching tv. He tried to turn on the tv to watch Captain Kangaroo but instead found footage of JFK’s body being carried on a train. For this piece he uses a projector connected…

We often view advanced works of people who have been working in new media for quite some time, so this is more of a random profile of someone we can think of as a peer in the learning process. This is a video made by presumably a student of a new media arts class showing…

This is a visualization of all the nouns in the English language as a mosaic.  Each of the tiles represents one of 53,463 nouns.  Tighter groupings of colors (such as the green) might correspond to a specific category such as plants/trees.  

Similar to what we saw in class on Monday, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt Museum in Frankfurt, Germany recently held an exhibition displaying drawing machines from a handul of different artists. The piece on the left is called, “CYCLOGRAVEURCYCLOGRAVEUR,” and was made in 1950. This is one of the pieces exhibited in the museum. Along with…

In a sweeping desperate press move, microsoft introduces a coffee table touch screen computer that will “change the world”. Assuming they mean that being able to show google maps on your coffee table will bring about a second industrial revolution. The table retails for probably way too much money for something that solely used to…

This large scale clock located in the London Heathrow Airport is a different type of world clock. The clock takes a different spin by giving the viewers  the time of natural wonders, various mountains, museums, and other natural and modern wonders rather than world capitals. By offering a different view of the world based on…

This team called Game Over makes a lot of classic video game videos using people as the components in the game. For this Tetris one they had the different groups of people sitting in an auditorium and had they sit in the shapes of the Tetris pieces. I really enjoy this video it is fun…

I recently visited this virtual art gallery of luminous art, sculpture and art installations by Eric Ehlenberger that incorporate neon light. Evidently, Ehlenberger is one of very few sculptors that focuses on the use of neon in his work. Along with neon, he often includes aluminum and other metals in his sculpture as well as…