I just thought this was so cool. This guy apparently took some firefly statistics of when fireflies light up and how many times and made his own jar of fireflies. He explains how he did it on his little blog. I think this is really neat. I always felt bad when I was little put…

In September of 2009 MIT and IDEO Product Developement looked at how wearable computer technology could be used in two different people’s lives. Subject one was a 19 year old female MIT student and subject two was a 54 year old business man. Both raved about the convienience of being able to look up information…

the colorful lights placed underneath the bridge are active with the traffic passing by on the bridges as well as the water movement below. each color that is programmed into the strucutre represents a different motion of the water and traffic. the colors are very beautiful in the water and a nice visual effect at…

I am completely amazed at the speed at which Intel is pumping out these processors. Even though is probably beyond consumer reach now. About a month ago I blogged about the 80 core processor, and shortly after 128 core comes rolling along. Though I’m more of an AMD user I’m really impress at the progress…

First off, here is a link to all my previous posts that didn’t appear on this blog….http://ddurso-carbonfiberfriendorfoe.blogspot.com/. The SnoopStick! Oh I am so getting this, apparently this little guy is meant for parents to be able to monitor their children. You plug in the SnoopStick to the childs computer and it installs a undetectable software….

Wow… The US keeps on surprising me. They have now invented a device that can hurt people. But wait, this device only produces light. Sounds crazy right. I thought the same thing. It appears that the US army as devised a 7.5 candlepower beam of light to hurt a person without actually killing them. So…

I dedicate this week’s post to my good friend, Dan. Dan is a wonderful guy. Dan is awesome. You should get to know Dan if you haven’t already. He’s funny. Anyway, my head was hurting from all the circuitry work and information, so I decided to move my mind elsewhere and try something fun with…

I don’t know if it can, but I like the scale and scope of this project. Hopefully it can inspire people to think in new directions about what we might create for this building. Is it a platform for literal expression or are the users inputs scattered, skewed, translated, turned inside-out?

I found this site will looking for information on programs to download for hacking. I want to start with handhelds since i have a few extras that either I dont need anymore or have broken wireless radios. Its not to bad, the site provides step by steps on how to hack. Take a look.

Can relationships and love be explained though circuits and electricity?Ok, this is kind of silly and is not about about responsive arts per se, but I was so happy to be able to understand what this guy was talking about (in electronics terms) and the whole thing sounds so funny that I had to post…

I wonder what is the point of paying for a machine that does such a simple task that even a child could perform without difficulty.Methods of destroying a Disc is so practical it can be done with just two hands. If want lack strength or the motivation of cracking a disk in half there are…

an interactive installation that converts everyone’s speech into a pattern to be visualized on a television. it does this by representing the sounds in English through a writing system. the shapes that are formed by the sounds appear as “sharp” or “smooth” etc. visual patterns. it reminds me of the visual effects on media players…