{"id":15762,"date":"2026-04-16T18:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/news-itp-faculty-alumni-team-featured-in-wired-hosting-workshop-at\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:50:10","slug":"news-itp-faculty-alumni-team-featured-in-wired-hosting-workshop-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/news-itp-faculty-alumni-team-featured-in-wired-hosting-workshop-at\/","title":{"rendered":"ITP Faculty &#038; Alumni Team featured in Wired, hosting workshop at TEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>            <!-- figure-image info --><br \/>\n            <a><br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/tisch.nyu.edu\/content\/dam\/tisch\/itp\/NewsEvents\/2025-2026\/Vape-Musical-Synthesizer-2.jpeg\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><b>ITP faculty David Rios &amp; Kari Love and ITP alum Shuang Cai<\/b> were featured in WIRED for their recycled vape synthesizers!\u00a0The group, who go by The Paper Bag Team, will host a workshop where participants can make their own vape synths at the upcoming Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Conference (TEI) this March in Chicago. Register at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tei.acm.org\/2026\">tei.acm.org\/2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/story\/hackers-turning-dead-vapes-into-musical-synthesizers\/\">wired.com\/story\/hackers-turning-dead-vapes-into-musical-synthesizers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Vape Synth is a project created by a group of makers in New York City who break apart spent Elf Bar nicotine vaporizers and hack them into digital musical instruments. The resulting device still looks like a vape cartridge, but with a small speaker nestled amid an array of lights and buttons. To play it, you put your mouth on it and draw your breath inward, like you would on a vape.<\/p>\n<p>People feel just completely unempowered to do anything,\u201d David Rios says, \u201cEven the most basic thing of just popping the lid open to see what&#8217;s in there. You don&#8217;t even have to touch it. It can be fun and easy and you can hopefully apply that to your other e-waste, or at least get interested.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>            <!-- figure-image info --><br \/>\n            <a><br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/tisch.nyu.edu\/content\/dam\/tisch\/itp\/NewsEvents\/2025-2026\/Vape-Musical-Synthesizer-1.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><!--\/\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/tisch.nyu.edu\/content\/dam\/tisch\/itp\/NewsEvents\/2025-2026\/Vape-Musical-Synthesizer-2.jpeg\"\/>&quot;The Vape Synth is a project created by a group of makers in New York City who break apart spent Elf Bar nicotine vaporizers and hack them into digital musical instruments. The resulting device still looks like a vape cartridge, but with a small speaker nestled amid an array of lights and buttons. To play it, you put your mouth on it and draw your breath inward, like you would on a vape.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}