As a child, brushing my teeth was a chore and I’m sure it took a lot of pressure from my parents for me to brush my teeth on a regular basis, as is the case with most kids. It seems there might finally be a solution to making brushing one’s teeth exciting and fun. Researchers…
Category: Past Student Work
Cell Phones Project Cinema
So we all know that watching a movie on your tiny little phone blows. So here comes “Pico Projectors” to the rescue, offering you pocket size projectors to attach to your phone. Expected to hit the market later this year, these external projectors are just the precursors to those that will eventually be built into…
Marta de Menezes: Functional Portraits
This is an example of a portrait done by Marta de Menezes (this portrait is of herself) using both the photographic portrait as well as an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to show what areas of the subject’s brain is active when told to complete a task (say cheese.) This is a response to earlier…
D/A Clock
I have a strange fascination with clocks, perhaps because I feel like they run my life, or maybe because the analog mechanism amazes me. Nevertheless, I have posted about a clock once before once again a clock has caught my attention. Designed by Alvin Aronson , a Furniture Design student at RISD, is an analog…
Lunar Resonant Street Lamps
Though you’d have to buy an e-subscription to read the full article, this link describes a new energy-saving street lamp that has a super sensitive sensor on it, enabling the lamps to gradually dim as the night sky fades to daylight. I think it’s interesting that this project hasn’t been introduced sooner, as the technology…
Bored?
I came across Gordon Pask’s Musicolour when scanning over a write up of a talk held at the IxDA Interaction 08 conference organized by the Savannah College of Art and Design. The area discussed addressed the incorporation and utilization of boredom in installation based environments. Gordon Pask specifically was interested in exploring the psychological conditions…
BOWL A PERFECT GAME EVERY TIME!!!
What you’re looking at right now is a robot that can be used to bowl a strike every time in Wii Bowling. It is actually built with Legos (NXT Mindstorm Legos, whatever those are). The site itself gives detailed instructions on how to build your own strike bowling robot as well as the software needed…
Beggar “a robot for the materially deprived.”
Beggar is built from discarded computer parts for little or no cost. It is designed to attract and interact with people and beg for money. Beggar is made from four PCs and has a computer screen for a head and a CD drive to collect money. Beggar was meant as a way for the homeless…
High School Robot Builders
High schools all across the country are participating in a robotics competition where a team of students must design and create a working robot to perform specific tasks designated by the competition. The team is given a standard kit of parts and 6 weeks to create their robot. The sky is the limit to what…
yet another guitar hero
with the huge success of guitar her0 1-3, there are many plans and “almost finished” projects for new and exciting guitar hero games. guitar hero has been featured on all consoles from x-box to wii, but they had yet to make it portable…until now. The Nintendo DS will soon be able to play the new…
Hacktivism takes on religion…
ok, so I know that wikipedia isn’t necessarily the best place to get completely factual information, but for this topic it seems to be the best way of getting any information about it since the group, “Anonymous” doesn’t seem to have an official web site or anything. basically, an anonymous internet group has been using…
Brody Condon – Performance Modification (Nauman)
This is a performance piece by Brody Condon, based off the 1973 piece by Bruce Nauman titled “Tony Sinking to the Floor, Face Up and Face Down.” This work is inspired by the body movement in video/computer games when a character is killed. The actors are outfitted in medieval/fantasy armor and mimic the animated death…