While looking for a way to make lights fade as part of our group project, I came across a couple of interesting links. The main link from this post takes you to a video that gives a quick but helpful introduction to programing chips. The example they show involves a special board called an ARDUINO….

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Like to scare little children? Well how about hacking into those 5 dollar annoying ghosts to make them do what you want to do. I am adding a twist to my Barbie and looked up how to hack toys. There are tons of Halloween hacking tools to make this Halloween a little more spooky!

Browsing through an interactive art exhibition, I found this cool library idea called “Librovision.” With the ‘Librovision’ someone can look through the virtual book by coming very close to the screen that the book is projected on, from a computer, and near the tips of the page moving your finger from left to right, depending…

According to Craig Venter the scientist who commercialized the efforts of the human genome has claimed to have created a synthetic chromos0ne.Organisms can indeed be made to help with medical treatments, environment protection, energy production and, unfortunately, biological weapons. the chromosome is made of 381 genes and was able to live successfully after a fifth…

In “bubble cosmos” colorful computer graphics are projected onto smoke-filled bubbles. When they’re made to burst, they blare out sound effects, the images are transformed, and installation visitors are treated to a whole series of amazing visuals. Cameras determine the respective position and status of each individual bubble and whether they are intact or not….

In class, we have went over several art installations which correspond with our enviroment. Often times these installations alert us about the ‘cleaness’ of the enviroment. I came across this installation by Charles Gaines, which is similar in alerting us on the pollution of our society. The ‘Greenhouse’ looks like a box but has a…

Throughout the years, technology in the medical field has grown significantly; machines helping the doctors be more precise, and that is all I can think of (I am sure there is more). Lately, Auckland City Hospital in New Zealand has been working on a new stent that will dissolve into a lactic acid (which is…

It may not be the best looking piece of hardware in the world, but it is one of the most interesting to me. Bug Labs is basically trying to create a DIY piece of hardware that the user can attach anything from a touchscreen to an accelerometer. It seems as though in the future, the…

A dear ol’ turtle had lost its hind leg, and in an interesting effort to save the poor beast from a fate many other turtles might have faced, someone has equipped it with a tire. No motor attached, unfortunately, so we won’t be seeing any speeding turtles anytime soon. To cope with the muddy terrain,…

If you’re sadistic, love technology, and enjoy inescapable obstacles, then this is your bag. Using Infrared beams, pressure sensor, and poison gas, Rentokil’s RADAR Super-Mouse Trap is deemed a quick and humane way of dealing with rodent problems. By luring the problem rodent with an infrared beam, the mouse activates pressure sensors in the trap…