A little leapfrog from last week’s foray into electro-plush-toy vivisection: here we have neon spectrum of what lies beneath the cuddly exterior of many, many, battery operated toys. There’s a tiny nightmare inside nearly every one of these childhood icons, but damn if they aren’t fascinating little buggers.

Sabrina Raaf made piece called the unstoppable hum. It is a generative artwork which makes a ceaseless hum that is emitted from electro-mechanic activity in surroundings. The hum extends from the walls, to computers, pretty much to everything. There is a second set of hums which is experienced when someone places bands over their ears….

The idea behind this is essentially Guitar Hero but with lasers. If someone breaks the beam of light, it will trigger a note to be played. This was based of the idea of the laser harp. It would cost $1500 to build and 10 days to build it. Stephen is planning on selling the idea.

This robot can sing just about anything, or at least that is what it looks like. The robot is shown outside of a stadium singing to a crowd. He can sing both women and men songs, love songs or songs with a beat. The robot is portable as you can see in this video, the…

Jeppe Hein’s big mirror ball is a polished steel ball that’s 30 inches in diameter and moves about the room whenever anyone enters the room. it moves fairly slow and in random directions. it bumps into people, walls, or whatever gets in its way. when it hits something it takes a short pause and then…

Directed by D. Richard Blidberg, research teams and several institutions have developed the SAUV II. This is a solar powered submarine, that can observe the undersea and monitor it’s surrondings. This robot will help the enviorment by getting a better understanding of maintaining the sea.Click here for video.Having solar power will allow longer deployment time….

This project by Gene Cooper is and installation in Burning Man http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/. This is an event as part of a temporary artist community that takes place for a short time every year and hosts some 48,000 artists.(for more info click the Burning Man link) Gene Cooper made a LED-neon heart that uses heart monitors to…

During the day, Solar Collector gathers energy from the sun as well as human expression from this website. At dusk, the sculpture puts those together into a performance of light.Twelve shimmering metal shafts rise at surprising angles from a grassy hill. They hang over the landscape, creating a graceful curve that appears to unfold for…

I thought this short feature was a good example of how to incorporate toys (like the ones we dissected a week and a half ago) into art. The toys are somewhat standard, but work well with everything else in claymation. It took me back to my childhood with a catchy song. It’s all about fun…

the audio shaker looks similar to a fat thermous with a cord attached. what you do is remove the lid and say something into it. it then records the sound and then you put the lid back on. if you shake it you hear the recorded noise but in a jumbled up manner. the faster…

To those of you who have ever wanted to exercise your right of free speech, this is the machine for you. Thanks to Ohio State University, this easily transportable device allows anonymous callers to speak their mind for one minute. After the caller’s message has been recorded on their answering machine, it will then be…

This motivational sense organism has similar features to the sensative plants. But different from sensative plants’ shyness, this art makes more responses and greetings to people. When people get closer to the artificial flowers, the sensors on the flowers will track people’s motion and react to them. It looks like this sensative organism has the…