Around 2 years ago, when the common Pentium 4 was around 2.6gHz, a group of overclocking fanatics attempted to break the world record for the fastest clock speed. Their goal was to successfully clock a Pentium 4 processor at 5 gHz. Back in the day, I was a hardcore overclocker (until I blew up my…

Since it is Valentine’s Day I found this thing called “The Dumpster”. It is an interactive blog that teenagers use to display their relationship problems. You can compare and contrast the different things they have written which were found through millions of online blogs. Kena

Technology has taken fashion to new heights. With color changing textiles wearers can either change the color of their clothes themselves or it can be mood changing. This system is called the Fabcell system, comprising of black fabric and compounded Fabcell modules, and a controller. Will designers be interested in this product or will it…

While this installation is a few years old, the randomness, the silliness and the good-natured humor celebrate it’s inventiveness. Who would need new nuclear bombs, nano-medicine or shrimp bandages? http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218391915&cat=2_4

I thought that this is a great integration of sound and visual clips. Each sound seams to trigger a new image or continue the progression in the current one. Good idea. I would like to see if we could interact with one of these programs in class. Maybe by the end of the semester.

Heres another example of using motion detection in your art. It looks like this installation is using an eye following program to match the viewers eyes with the people’s in the pictures. The presentation is a little revealing, I would have at least tried to hide the camera.

Apparently, newly released evidence shows Bill Gates, Microsoft’s Founder and CEO, behind it all. While reporters have been unable to assert the veracity of this claim, the following exists for your perusal:

The arc tangent is an installed interactive piece that activates space between individuals who surround it. The movement and position of the people are what determine the drawing that are created on the piece. Depending on the space of the people that surround the piece makes up what display is featured on the piece. The…

Intel has developed a 80 core processor which can perform up to 1 trillion calculations in a second. I find it impressive that duo core is just establishing itself as a standard in current PC Intel comes up with this. Though, is probably beyond anyone’s reach at the moment I can’t wait to see what…

Pavel Hladik is currently working on the construction of a movable structure. The technology incorporates shape memory alloys which are metals that can be caused to change shape via a change in temperature. The temperature change in the design is caused by current controlled by a computer. The mechanical construction of the structure enhances the…

I had already been looking at Camille Utterback’s Text Rain piece before class and wanted to do my post on it, but since we discussed it in class I decided to explore Utterback’s work further in search of a new subject.What I found out is that all of her projects interest me, not only because…