Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Museum of Obsolete Objects

Posted on Outubro 7, 2011 - Filed Under Digital Culture, Documentary, Social, Technology, Trends | Leave a Comment

Museum of Obsolete Objects was created by the german Digital Agency Jung von Matt/Next .
Sadly, as our daily lives become more and more digital some things fall by the way side as they are replaced by newer, «better» devices.
Let us not forget those fallen appliances, tools and gadgets and relive those bygone times by taking [...]

Swallowable Parfum

Posted on Agosto 22, 2011 - Filed Under Experience, Nanotechnology, Technology, Trends | Leave a Comment

Swallowable Parfum is a digestible scented capsule that works through your own perspiration. Once absorbed, fragrance molecules are excreted through the skin’s surface. A unique odor is emanated, depending on each individual’s acclimatization to temperatures, to stress, exercise, or sexual arousal.
This utterly intimate technology is being developed by body architect Lucy McRae in a collaboration [...]

Digi-Comp II

Posted on Junho 28, 2011 - Filed Under Interactive, Robotics, Technology | 5 Comments

Digi-Comp II is a classic 1960′s educational computer kit– an automatic binary digital mechanical computer, capable of conducting basic operations like adding, multiplying, subtracting, dividing, counting, and so forth. These operations are all conducted by the action of marbles rolling down a slope.
A huge calculator machine.

Be Your Own Souvenir

Posted on Abril 13, 2011 - Filed Under Art, Interactive, Social, Technology | Leave a Comment

Be Your Own Souvenir, a project by Barcelona based blablabLAB.
This past January, the installation connected passersby with the arts and technology, allowing people to become active collaborators with blablabLAB . Each visitor assumed the dual role of producer and consumer, with the help of customized software . The system invited each guest (acting [...]

Immaterials: Light painting WiFi

Posted on Março 3, 2011 - Filed Under Digital Culture, Technology | Leave a Comment

This project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs.
A four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting.

The Ice Book

Posted on Fevereiro 23, 2011 - Filed Under Editorial, Experience, Performance, Technology | Leave a Comment

The Ice Book is the story of a princess who lures a boy into the forest in order to warm her heart of ice.
The performance blends animation, puppetry, and film to bring a pop-up book vividly to life in front of the audience’s eyes.

Diego Stocco – Music From a Tree

Posted on Junho 9, 2010 - Filed Under Art, Digital Culture, Performance, Technology | Leave a Comment

Sound designer Diego Stocco has created another amazing, nature-based music composition. This time, Stocco played a tree from his backyard as an instrument. Using a combination of specialty microphones and fine acoustical tuning of the tree’s branches, he was able to generate an assortment of unique sounds.
Via PSFK

The Procreative Dinner, an ephemeral work between art, science and gastronomy

Posted on Maio 31, 2010 - Filed Under Art, Design, Technology | Leave a Comment

The Procreative Dinner is based on the idea of a child «à la carte», and creates a reflexion about how the new techniques of assisted procreation lead us to an artificial evolution of the human being through selection.
The artist associates her art to a chef étoilé and a specialized scientist [...]