Ever felt down for a long time and were diagnosed with depression? Well it seems that instead of taking Prozac everyday, you have a new answer. Everytime you are feeling down an electrode in your head will shock your brain causing you to become happy. Personally, I think this is unnatural. No, being depressed isn’t…

So I am a huge music lover. My very first “love” was a DJ, so maybe that’s why I love that particular skill! So this artist decided to mix his DJing with his VJing. VScratch provides a visual transcription of every single element used while scratching records-variations of speed, volume, and audio spectrum. Additionally, there…

I found this site using the stumble upon program on mozilla. The artist’s name is Ron Mueck. He is an Australian working in the UK. Originally he designed models and puppets. He worked on the film Labyrith starring David Bowie. All of his scuptures are extremely realistic and are either much larger then the real…

Hi Everyone – Check out your pick up folder for class. The pics from Tuesday are in it!

As mentioned in class, rapid prototyping allows for the creation of complex 3D forms through the layering or a base material. Researchers have made a major breakthrough, making the leap from one to two materials being layered in a single object. If this could be expanded on, it should theoretically be possible to “3D print”…

This is an interesting piece of interactive art called the Thermoesthesia which its makers also call a “Thermal sense display”. Beneath the projection surface there is a matrix of 24 heat pumps. When you touch the surface, you produce snow crystals or sparks, depending on the mode that the installation is currently in. The interesting…

Want express yourself through the climate? The Peau d’Ane is a series of dresses (3) that interacts and changes design as the weather changes. Each dress intereacts with different themes of the weather. The sky dress changes its structure and produces sound based on the clouds and winds in the sky. As for the sun…

Motion Portrait has released a photo imaging program that can transform 2D pictures into 3D talking animation. According to the company, 1 computer with 1 gigahertz processing speed can handle the transformation so most of us should not have any problems with this software if we ever get our hands on it. check the video…

There have been arguments on whether or not Apple is becoming the next Microsoft. This could be one argument for the latter. The new iPods have been engineered to not work on Linux, especially third party software that is not iTunes. Although thanks to the open source community, there is work around to this technological…

THE NINTENDO Wii HAS YET PROMISED ANOTHER UNREASONABLE SUPPLY FOR THE US. EVEN WITH THE BIG SUPPLY OF OTHER SYSTEMS Wii DOESNT FEEL PRESSURE AT ALL BE THEM. BUT SHOULD THEY? DONT THEY THINK THAT PEOPLE WHO WANT THE Wii BUT CANT GET IT BECAUSE THEY’RE ALWAYS SOLD OUT THAT THEY AREN’T GOING TO GET…

Ever walked down the street with your earphones in your ears and then suddenly, one of them pops out of your ear. As you try to pull it back into your ear, the other ear drips and that earphone falls too. Well, these are different in that instead of going into your earlobe they vibrate…

NanoArt is an emerging form of artwork in which artists use nanotechnology to create micro/nanosculptures through chemical, physical, and natural processes. To display, and even see these minuscule pieces of artwork, powerful microscopes are used. One pioneer of NanoArt, Cris Orfescu, has created a website used to spread this innovative form of art. Orfescu also…