It is placed in a room and is triggered when someone walks up to it. First a light turns on and then the washing machine tub rocks back and forth. There are ping-pong balls with printed words on them that each person picks to put on the wall. This piece lets the viewer have a…

So you thought you were kind of understanding all that electrical stuff and the BASIC Stamp seemed pretty coo, hunh? Well, this weekend is your (and my) opportunity to be humbled by your juniors. At the Pavillion is the regional championship for the high school robot competition. Saturday at noon the grand finale/ championship/ geek…

Amy Youngs has engineered a cactus to glow in response to human interaction. I don’t quit know if this was done genetically but I would think that there is a non-organic mechanism involved here somewhere. Regardless of how it was done it was done to promote the idea of developing new types of plants that…

The Jansen went from painting to making a flying saucer (that really flew and caught some attention) to making wind powered mechanisms. These objects are beautiful displays of mechanics and motion. Often far taller than a human being they gracefully walk along the beach as the wind is caught in sails results in the bending…

So this is a pretty neat little site here. They have a couple simple electronic devices you can make by hacking cheap everyday products. These reminded me a lot of the kinds of stuff we do in class so I thought they were pretty interesting. My favorite is the Laser Communicator, but yeah check it…

The piece Superficial Tension by Canada based Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a different take on new media art based on surveillance. In this case nobody is really watching the viewer or spectator, but a plasma screen containing the image of a huge eye that through a video-based tracking system detects the movement of the…

this is really cool. i think i would like to know whether im going to be handling hot or cold water. everytime i go and wash my hands i always burn my hands because i never know wether the water will be scorching, and its not that simple. i never think about the temperature, so…

here is an interesting piece of German architecture that I came across. It’s a college dining hall based out of Karlsruhe… The visually pleasing design is described by the architect (Jurgen Mayer H.) as an “elastic space” that elicits the feeling of looking at bubble gum on the bottom of your shoe…..but in a much…

Pay no attention to the site, just the concept.

There are two videos here and while the first is just a commercial with bad sound, it looks pretty cool. I’m more impressed by the second video, which while lacking in it’s own regard, gives a pretty cool in-depth look at the possibilities available with this new gaming engine. Also look here: http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce8.html

First off, I’d like to apologize for the late post. When I got home, I decided to take a nap, which eventually turned into a 13 hour sleep, so I never got around to posting this. This is something interesting my friend showed me the other day. I’m not sure if there is a more…

Greener is the latest work by Italian artists Iole Alessandrini. With this piece Alessandrini alters the landscape visually through the use of lasers that create layers of green light over a grassy terrain. Once more, the viewer here is not independent from the art piece because is his/her interaction (in this case blocking the light…