“Les Pissenlits” by Edmond Couchot & Michel Bret *

Les Pissenlits – The Dandelions – is an interactive installation which features a projection of dandelions that have gone to seed. Viewers can blow on the screen, and the dandelion seeds fly away, just like real ones! Edmond Couchot and Michel Bret are French artists who both teach at the school of the Arts and…

ROCK-IT

ROCK-IT is one of the most intresting robots. It is basically do what other human can do, like walk dance, talk. This 9 feet tall ROCK-It enteratin human being in everywhere. It has lots of digital voices, whcih he use while talking with the crowd. Most people love to talk to rockit. He dance on…

all the crap about robots you can imagine

This clip shows the best of the robot short films is interesting to say the least. It is about robots. It is about short films. It is about robots in short films. It is about short films with robots in them. What more could you ask for if you’re taking a responsive arts class. It’s…

Robopult

So these guys have both too much time and too much money on their hands. This page and video describe the process of reprogramming an industrial robot to hurl bowling balls set ablaze into the desert night. It is both hilarious and terrifying. The juxtaposition between the intelligence required to successfully execute such a task…

Various Rickshaw Bots

These rickshaw robots are so efficient, especially in the overpopulated China…NOT, hahaha i mean who the hell would wanna sit in a bouncy-ass, rickety-ass, not smooth at all ass rickshaw? It looks unbearable. What a waste of time, the next step is to make the ride a smoothe one. I give it two thumbs down…

Timesculpture

Did you enjoy watching the Matrix trilogy and its special effects ? If so, then you’re in luck. There’s a continuation, a continuation to those special effects that is. People at Toshiba hired an ad agency with its very own “Matrix effect” variant called “timesculpture” to plug Toshiba’s XDE technology. The company created a circular…

Mechanical Music

i am generally a big fan of the Rube Goldberg-esque machine and this is no exception. This combines my loves of mechanistic process and music wonderfully. It’d only be more amazing if it were real.

Robot Car

It seems that more and more steps are being taken to have that car of the future. Its really amazing that this car thinks for itself. Hopefully more advancements can be taken so that cars will be safer and that less people will be hurt in reckless accidents.

Dynamic Architecture

Architect David Fisher has designed an 80 story wind turbine powered tower. Located in Dubai, the rotating tower will cost an estimated $700 million and be finished in 2010. Fisher explains that the plan for a dynamic building arose from his idea that architecture should incorporate a 4th dimension, time. The building in motion will…

Wrist Camera

The Wrist camera is one of the useful invention. Sometimes we forget our camera in parties, but wrist camera is giving us the opportunity to not forget our camera. It is a waterporrof camera, and can be used 30 feet deep. and it weights like less than 30 onces. It will help you to take…

Build Your Own Laser Pointer

This site shows you how to build your own laser pointer from a 16x DVD player. You must dismantle the DVD player to acquire the laser diode. Then get a laser housing unit and remove the original laser. Solder pins onto the end of the DVD laser diode and put it in the laser housing….

Geocatching

In May of 2000, the good news of 24 new satellites used for Global Positioning System’s around the world meant increased accuracy. With this news, ideas began swirling around and before long the idea similar to a treasure hunt was developed. The goal of Geocaching is to locate the hidden containers, and the fun behind…