So over the weekend my friends and I went down town for some fun. While we were there we stumbled into this “Tech” exhibition hosted by the magazine “Wired”. The exhibition was called “wired nextfest” and was simply amazing. The idea was to show some of the “next” up and coming inventions and advancements in…

Is everyone familiar with Rube Goldberg? The drawings of the boot that hits the mouse that eats the cheese the lifts the weight that lights the candle? Google him. Anyway, Honda made a commercial that employes his small steps lead to big things approach to…designing I guess you could say. There are some interesting electrical…

This week I found something that caught my interest, a wearable robotic suit developed by Elm Design and Cyberdyne. This amazing robotic suit provides a serious function of limb assistance to its wearer. It ofers a great strenght and stability to its wearer, making it a perfect piece of equipment for military and industrial environments….

The creators of this piece Benjamin Burns and Fernando Orellana used recorded brain activity during REM sleep to determine the robots behavior and movements. Its like “play back” for human dreams. I thought that it is quite amazing how we can use robots to help us read our subconsciousness. The idea behind Sleep Walking is…

The amount of motors and coordination going on here is astounding. These robots are a far cry from the one I took apart in class: mine had one motor. If I had to make a conservative guess as to how many they have, I’d say at least a million billion. But don’t be fooled by…

This video about the great Jackson Pollock really energized me. However, you must watch it as well as listen to the music. This has the energy that Pollock was known for as being bipolar. He reinvented art in the 1950’s and is still relevant today. His legacy is that of a man of struggles and…

The Terrainium can represent any physical surface on a 3-dimensional plane. The large scale sculpture is controlled by a computer that can manipulate hundreds of white spheres, pulling them up or down vertically. The microcontroller functions to display any surface on a scatterplot that provides a more up close model of any graphical information.

click title for video Tokyo based Sachiko Kodama is a physicist and artist who uses raw materials to make her art pieces.  This particular one she discovered almost on accident.  It uses black oil, ceramics and a teflon-coated spike.  There are no moving parts, rather all of the movement and designs are created with an…

Mark Yim is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He does  robotic research with the Grasp Lab. This is his very recent project called the CK bot. Not much detail of the information is revealed online except for this video because his work is still an ongoing project. It is also…

condemned bulbs is a sound and lightbulb instalation. it uses 1000 watt bulbs that are controlled by a “musicain”. the electricity flows through a coil and a custom made light dimmer. the electricity is clearly audible and controllable.

This is the most fascinating hack I’ve seen in a while. I didn’t even know that there was an infrared sensor in the tip of the Wii remote. By using that, Johnny Lee has written his own program and allowed the two to work together to create an interactive whiteboard, a touchscreen, and even a…