I love rube goldberg machines. great kinetic energy and organization exercise

According to Wikipedia, “A Tesla coil is a type of resonant transformer circuit invented by Serbian-American scientist Nikola Tesla around 1891.[1] It is generally used to generate very high voltage, low current, high frequency alternating current electricity.” But mostly I’m in it for the sweet lightning visuals. So here it is, then! This one has…

This light table is awesome. It reminds me of some alien looking creature just hanging out…being an alien. I just think that the lights changing colors are freaking awesome and would be fun to have in my house. Good design. I think this is prett neat. The fact that all this crazy sculpture is made…

For this week! “we[ b]link is a system to design patterns on store-front windows, that reacts to the “passing by” of people and transmits their graphical representation to other windows around the globe. Sigma6Created in 2002 in Geneva, Sigma6 is a group of graphic designers specialized in visual performances. Bringing together a broad spectrum of…

This is for last friday…

This is stanley. He is a volkswagon toureg and he can drive with out the help from any humans. obviously he had help from humans when he was being made. Stanley can sense the road and has a laser scanner system that allows him to sense whether or not the road ahead of him is…

Samsung u 700

All it needs is your Love. SYKE! It’s a Robot Plant that incorporates audio sensors that reacts to the tone of voice. It also incorporates muscle wires for movement corresponding to the audio input. As shown in the video, it’s good for psychological relief. It runs on batteries.HUG TREES!

 box of men is a display of six ventrilloquist puppets on a large flat panel screen.  the puppets talk to each other about an “unknown crime”. the conversation is not pre-recorded but run by a computer program that assigns each puppet a voice. the conversation can go on and on until the program is termenated….

the telepresence picnic is a set of two identical electronic picnic sets (food, utencils etc.). they are to be set up in two different goegraphical locations in a network hotspot. the two picnic sets are wirelessy connected to each other. when you move something on one set it causes that item on the other set…

The double taker, created by Golan Levin, Lawrence Hayhurst, Steven Benders, and Fannie White, is an eight foot long mechanical arm that is meant to look like “an enormous inchworm or an elephant’s trunk”.  Installed above the entrance to a building, it moves and follows passersby with its eye as they walk past.  The goal…