This technology is really amazing especially with todays energy crisis it’s comforting to know that people can start producing their own power. At this stage the energy produced is very low but the technology is brand new, and can be expected to improve. Right now a shirt made from the fabric can generate enough eletricity…

Lightshow with Pd/GEM and physical modellingOver the last decade, the user base of Pd has constantly grown and many of these users have also turned into developers who work on the software itself and make their own extensions. The sheer number of available extra packages may make Pd a bit intimidating to beginners, so this…

This website hosts all kinds of creative commons licenses and unlicensed films, live recordings, books and software. I ve only used it to get good quality live concerts, Everything on the site is availabe for download from different servers, so its all availabe all of the time.

This device measures the electrical draw of appliances.  You would simply plug the appliance you wanted to measure into one end of the jar’s cable and then plug the other end into a wall outlet.  I thought the design for this was really simple and original, it also recently won a Greener Gadgets competition and…

Ever since I learned about the true nature of Niagara Falls and how it runs at less than it’s full capacity in order to preserve it’s present location, I’ve often wondered how the general public would view this powerful force of nature if it were allowed flow as it should. With this sculpture, the very…

Kanye West wore a wearable led outfit to the Grammys. Kanye has a great influence in new styles and trends as displayed by the success of those funny sunglasses that no one had heard of till after he wore them. The ones with no glass but strips of non-translucent plastic instead. (Well I had seen…

Hitachi-Maxell plans to unveil their newest creation- a 300gb removable storage media in the form of a cd, albiet a little thicker.  The newest creation in the wave of removable media, just one of their cds can make most harddrives obsolete, making a future where nothing will be saved to your desktop anymore, and you…

At Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana three artists, Jesse Allison, John Fillwalk and Keith Kothman, created interactive wireless installation which was incorporated into an existing bell tower. Heavily reliant on digitial media the installation consists of four projection screens, computers, audio equipment, and speakers. The piece is designed to interact with the campus wireless…

Yep, art can get creepier than it already is. Golan Levin wanted to see the reaction people would have if art could literally stare back at us. The eye reacts in fashion of most humans, as it will follow your eye contact, but will break it when there is a prolonged stare. Also, it blinks…

Software engineer Jaterndijit Singh created a simple robot out of Lego Technics parts, a cheap micro controller, and an infrared interface, then attached a cellphone to it that could control the the little robot’s arms and wheels via an IR link. The robot is called Temo (telephone operated mobile internet robot) and can be controlled…

This could be one of the craziest and coolest works of web art i have ever seen. If you read the web address it has the word seizure in it, which is very fitting to this work. It is hard to describe what is going on when you open it up, but it looks like…