This video about the great Jackson Pollock really energized me. However, you must watch it as well as listen to the music. This has the energy that Pollock was known for as being bipolar. He reinvented art in the 1950’s and is still relevant today. His legacy is that of a man of struggles and…
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The Entertrainer
The Entertrainer is a device intended to motivate lazy people to work out. It is a wireless heart rate monitor that doubles as a universal remote. You can either enter in a heart rate that you want to maintain over the course of your workout or enter your age and the intensity you want and…
Terrainium
The Terrainium can represent any physical surface on a 3-dimensional plane. The large scale sculpture is controlled by a computer that can manipulate hundreds of white spheres, pulling them up or down vertically. The microcontroller functions to display any surface on a scatterplot that provides a more up close model of any graphical information.
the morpho tower
click title for video Tokyo based Sachiko Kodama is a physicist and artist who uses raw materials to make her art pieces. This particular one she discovered almost on accident. It uses black oil, ceramics and a teflon-coated spike. There are no moving parts, rather all of the movement and designs are created with an…
Unbreakable ON THE REAL!!!
Mark Yim is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He does robotic research with the Grasp Lab. This is his very recent project called the CK bot. Not much detail of the information is revealed online except for this video because his work is still an ongoing project. It is also…
condemned bulbs
condemned bulbs is a sound and lightbulb instalation. it uses 1000 watt bulbs that are controlled by a “musicain”. the electricity flows through a coil and a custom made light dimmer. the electricity is clearly audible and controllable.
Innovations through the Wii Remote by Johnny Lee
This is the most fascinating hack I’ve seen in a while. I didn’t even know that there was an infrared sensor in the tip of the Wii remote. By using that, Johnny Lee has written his own program and allowed the two to work together to create an interactive whiteboard, a touchscreen, and even a…
Smart Studio’s Mindball
Originating from the prototype game called Brainball, this two player game pushes the boundaries of competitive games to the unexpected. Instead of encouraging brain activity and involvement, the goal of this game is to see who of the two opponents can relax the most. Via a table, ball, and special headbands, this simple game is…
WATCH the interaction
Imagine a watch that interacts and tells the owner more than just the time. Crispin Jones has been inspired to have these watches tell you messages, the idea of this watch is to be a fundamental expression of the communicator’s personality. For example on the top right this brown watch known as Summissus The Humanity…
Video Painting
This group is made of 2 pieces that build on the concept of painting with video. The pieces in this group are truly interactive as the visitors are encouraged not only to incorporate their image into the piece but actively paint and change the whole appearance of the piece, becoming the artists themselves. Video material…
Younghui Kim’s “Stir It On!”
Younghui Kim is an New York-based interactive designer. Her Stir It On! project features a skirt that reacts to touch, so that if someone bumps into the wearer, subtle light patterns will be emitted from it. Kim explains that the glow emitted from the skirt can be interpreted as either a warning to back off,…