So this is a pretty neat little site here. They have a couple simple electronic devices you can make by hacking cheap everyday products. These reminded me a lot of the kinds of stuff we do in class so I thought they were pretty interesting. My favorite is the Laser Communicator, but yeah check it…

The piece Superficial Tension by Canada based Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a different take on new media art based on surveillance. In this case nobody is really watching the viewer or spectator, but a plasma screen containing the image of a huge eye that through a video-based tracking system detects the movement of the…

this is really cool. i think i would like to know whether im going to be handling hot or cold water. everytime i go and wash my hands i always burn my hands because i never know wether the water will be scorching, and its not that simple. i never think about the temperature, so…

here is an interesting piece of German architecture that I came across. It’s a college dining hall based out of Karlsruhe… The visually pleasing design is described by the architect (Jurgen Mayer H.) as an “elastic space” that elicits the feeling of looking at bubble gum on the bottom of your shoe…..but in a much…

Pay no attention to the site, just the concept.

There are two videos here and while the first is just a commercial with bad sound, it looks pretty cool. I’m more impressed by the second video, which while lacking in it’s own regard, gives a pretty cool in-depth look at the possibilities available with this new gaming engine. Also look here: http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce8.html

First off, I’d like to apologize for the late post. When I got home, I decided to take a nap, which eventually turned into a 13 hour sleep, so I never got around to posting this. This is something interesting my friend showed me the other day. I’m not sure if there is a more…

Greener is the latest work by Italian artists Iole Alessandrini. With this piece Alessandrini alters the landscape visually through the use of lasers that create layers of green light over a grassy terrain. Once more, the viewer here is not independent from the art piece because is his/her interaction (in this case blocking the light…

So I was only going to post one of these pages but I couldn’t decide on one so I’d recomend just checking some of them out if your interested. This is an extremly touchy subject to alot of people and well….thats just why I like it. Like I said before and I’ll say again, people…

Here is something that goes back to our conversation about internet issues. Something to add to the never ending conversation… A survey found that almost 14 percent of teens in China are exposed to internet addiction. It even got more alarming when Sun, a 17 year old who has recently checked in, would at times…

This is a pretty simple concept, yet very useful. The lid is heat sensitive and when the liquid is too hot the lid is red. As it cools it turns brown. This is another way to help people that forget that coffee is a hot liquid not burn themselves. Kena

So taking a pee while playing a game? i’m down. marcel neundorfer designed an urinal to do just that. peeing on a certain spot in the urinal controls a character or object on the screen to play one of many mini games programmed into the system. marcel said the basis of this type of urinal…