This is art placed in high stressed areas in hospitals and clinics. It helps clams the patient and allows for a less sterol look.

It wasn’t until the reading in regards to New Media did I remember that Chicago once had this interesting Installation about web cams, Iraqis, and paint ball guns early this year. The artist Waafa Bilal setup an installation in the Flatfile gallery in Chicago with a web cam and a paint ball gun connected to…

This cool, although weird-looking thing, has 12 little circles that change function based on what is projected on them from up above. They can be a watch or a switch or many other things, and at first they are unified but become more complex the more they are used. It kind of looks like a…

Diners in Nuremberg, Germany are finally learning that humans are becoming obsolete, to serve fast food. using a touch screens you not only can select your meal but see what your meal looks like. No more surprised looks when the waiter bring your meal, and asking is that grilled chicken a la devil. but then…

UNICEF estimates that more than 1 billion people around the world are without year-round access to safe dinking water and each year more than 1.5 million children under the age of 5 die from water borne dieses. So the ability to create clean and drinkable water is essential to the survival of many people. Although…

No, this isn’t about that silly game where you run around in a dark room with those “futuristic” guns and armor with music blasting in the background.. Some graffiti artists have developed a new way to tag their artwork on walls and buildings. Basically they use a giant projector to project light on the building…

The light harp designed by Jen Lewin is an interactive instrument. Judging from the title, you probably can guess that this harp is played by breaking a beam of light. As the beam of light is broken, the harp senses how fast the string is broken and at what location it is broken. The information…

Last month, my neighborhood was one or many that had no electricity for up to a week. As a result, the Displanes River ended up filling my basement because our sub-pump had shut down. We quickly rented a gasoline generator to turn it back. If we hadn’t, we’d have to buy a new furnace. The…

Going off the air engine design of Robert Stirling does this tiny little mechanism give you an entertaining spin. Using pistons fueled by temperature difference, the wheel on this tinker toy spins, offering up to one hour of laughs and fun. That’s right, it doesn’t need to be sitting atop a cup of coffee or…

Sony has just announced that they plan on coming out with a new battery, the catch is that it runs on glucose (sugar). The battery will basically work the same way the human body does. It will break down the carbohydrates with enzymes. This is a crazy invention in my opinion. Even though the battery…

There is a new ring that is available on the market. Besides for looking good this new ring has an amazing feature. It can be used to spray pepper spray at someone. The page where I found this, boingboing.com did not say how it worked, but from the picture it seemed like the pepper spray…