Feijun Chen and Bin Zhao have designed a pair of running shoes that have head lights on the front of the them. They are made out of a waterproof, breathable material and have a dock of LED’s on the front that allow you to see up to five feet in front of you. They also…
Category: Past Student Work
Interactivity without electronics
Zippo video I could not find these guy’s real names, but they go by ‘Booty’ and ‘Mr. Twistyneck.’ They have made a living performing tricks with zippo lighters, finding interesting and impressive stylized ways of lighting the lighters and extinguishing them. What I found most interesting about this concept is that they are exploring multiple…
Digital Ceiling Clock
This interesting take on room lighting functions as both an ambient and direct light source. Designed by a group of New York architects, it’s pretty much a giant digital watch on the ceiling. The clock shows the time in minutes and is the only light source in the room. As the time changes, the frequency…
This moving sculpture is at the BMW Museum and is something that I have never seen before. The metal looking balls seem to be floating in the air. They all move together in such precision to make completely different shapes. This really blows my mind.
World of Warcraft Treadmill – Race Across Azeroth with a RunCraft
World of Warcraft Treadmill – Race Across Azeroth with a RunCraftextremely cheap manual treadmills and decided to sense their speed with a mouse rather than trying to hook into the treadmill’s output with some sort of analog interface. It only get to track a little over 4mph. If you were going to run at 12mph…
A Semi-Practical LED Mod from AlterEGlow
AlterEGlow is a UK website that made this odd and somewhat useful LED-lit faucet that they have dubbed Glow Flow. Though completely unnecessary, they somehow installed LED lights inside a faucet and they turn the lights on when the water runs. In the dark, it brightens the entire sink with the color of the LED….
HEXBUGs!
Like most robotics, many artist use the anatomy of an insect. This little robot is more of for young children mainly 8+ but it has a unique way of how it works. This toy is motion censored and it walks around, but once it senses that something is in it’s way it turns around and/or…
Squeezebox combines variety of arts
This project done by Reverberant is unique not only to one form of art but three: spatial sound, computer graphics, and kinetic sculpture. The way this “thing” works is through viewer interaction. By re-sculpting and manipulating the integrated plastic object, not only does the sculpture change, but images and sound correspond with the changes in…
Fluid Arm
Well, this week an interesting story popped into my head, a story I read about some time ago. The topic here is a revolutionary artificial limb. I think the creation Festo came up with is a major development in the world of prosthesis. Their unique way of moving the artificial limb is truly genius and…
See ya later Alligator
This story happemed about a month or two ago. You may remember. My question is how does an alligator make a life in the Chicago River? Is it a sign of global warming? Did it make its way north from the south? Or maybe it is a sign of how globally connected we are. Maybe…
Autonomous Light Air Vessels
Jed Berk‘s ALAVs are shaped like small blimps and interact with objects, humans, and each other. The ALAVs are programmed with an Interactive Voice Recognition system so that humans can speak to the ALAVs via cell phone. ALAVs are programmed to ask questions and respond accordingly, depending on the answer. Responses involve altitude, light, and…
Crystal Blue Bawls Bottle
Crystal Blue Bawls Light! Wild LED Light Project! – The best video clips are right hereThis video shows the whole process that was made in order to make the LED Bottle. I find that the bottle looks really cool once it is finished, and it surprises me, how simple the video makes it all seem….