Intel has developed a 80 core processor which can perform up to 1 trillion calculations in a second. I find it impressive that duo core is just establishing itself as a standard in current PC Intel comes up with this. Though, is probably beyond anyone’s reach at the moment I can’t wait to see what…

Pavel Hladik is currently working on the construction of a movable structure. The technology incorporates shape memory alloys which are metals that can be caused to change shape via a change in temperature. The temperature change in the design is caused by current controlled by a computer. The mechanical construction of the structure enhances the…

I had already been looking at Camille Utterback’s Text Rain piece before class and wanted to do my post on it, but since we discussed it in class I decided to explore Utterback’s work further in search of a new subject.What I found out is that all of her projects interest me, not only because…

This is the sickest laser I have ever seen. I have never seen a high power laser that can actually burn a hole through objects. Ya and there are a few objects that it cant make a dent in but with the right technology and additional modifications, I believe it can burn through anything. This…

“Eat You Up” by Aaron Koblin is a very interesting take on interaction art. The viewer is presented with a touch screen where you are asked a series of questions about your diet. After answering these a formula based on the different acids and salt in your body is made. This is then used to…

In the information aesthetics website, they were commenting on the movie, An Inconvenient truth. They were critiquing how the graph that was primarily used to point out that the world is getting warmer, was in fact manipulated to give those alarming facts that the world is in deep climatic troubles. THE WORLD IS TOO WARM!…

Here is a program that we could all use to interpret sound from an image. This program can be manipulated, so that means it can be integrated as the platform for an installation piece. It can turn movement into music and music into imagery (and vice versa to music). The interface looks fairly simple to…

I guess I’ve been using HCI for ten years or so. The military has offered on-line courses for a long time and most of them are boring…heh. Actually, right now I can learn Spanish, Swahili, Urdu or any number of languages through on-line courses. I’m just too lazy to lern evn engrish thouw. Here also…

Finally, just what I’ve been waiting for my whole life…..a robot that will iron my pants with minimal effort from me. This would’ve been priceless while I was still in the military. The robot works quite simply:Place pants in robot.Select temperatureTurn onWait 2.5 minutes and put on your pants. At a cool $599, this product…

So Japan receives a good amount of rainy days, so to spice up their gloomy climate the internet umbrella was introduced to do just that. One of the many focuses around the umbrella idea was to create hardware that would be workable in such limited space. Just like a cellphone, but with a more useful…

After hearing about it a bunch of times in this class, I finally decided to check out what jodi.org is all about. I was first introduced to an interesting page of… well… flashing green symbols which appeared to be absolutely meaningless (so the <blink> tag is a form of art now, huh?). But, being the…