Archive for May, 2008
A pair of bracelets to communicate the intimate nature of touch at a distance.
Epafi is a pair of bracelets built to simulate the common and playful exchange of touch amongst mates, loved ones, or even close friends. Whenever either of the wearers touch the bracelet worn on their wrist, the location, pressure, and movement of the touch is replicated on other the wearer\'s... CONTINUE READING »
A portable, solar powered speaker system for portable audio players.
The Solar Sound System is a portable audio player powered by the sun. Its slim design for easy travel, and its unique angling system allows you to harness the sun\'s rays from any postion. Now you can jam along to your favorite tunes ecologically guilt-free knowing that you\'re utilizing 100%... CONTINUE READING »
Vajrapani is an experience of interconnections in the present moment. It is a group meditation on impermanence and co-operation.
Vajrapani is an interactive sand table instillation for 1 - 4 persons, which encourages them to experience their individual and group presence as a natural kind of magic. A meditation on fleeting images which parallel the passing of time, like a digital sand mandala, it is the meeting point of... CONTINUE READING »
Show your knife skills making your own sequence!
\"Simon Stabs...\" is an interactive game that provides \'harmless\' platform differs from a typical knife skill game with a real knife. It consists of two gaming platforms with wooden knives as \'switch\' to press six \'buttons\' in the space between each finger. The rule of the game is that player... CONTINUE READING »
An analog circuit of 24 standard light switches controls the colour of a single pixel.
This piece mimics the way a computer uses 24 bits to control the colour value of each pixel on a screen. ... CONTINUE READING »
The mental walls we develop to protect ourselves from the sensory data we\'re flooded by every day can leave us deaf to the details of our own lives. Ambient Amplifiers are devices which seek to bring attention to what we miss in a calming and useful way.
Cities are filled with information — every street bleeds data in every conceivable form, emanating from taxis, sirens, conversations, not to mention the data flowing from every cell phone, laptop and music device. This sort of flood can’t possibly be parsed, leaving city dwellers to develop mental walls to... CONTINUE READING »
\"Flossin a Benz on rims that isn\'t stolen, thinkin of the G\'s I\'ll be holdin, picture me rollin\'\"
Picture Me Rollin\' is a manufactured surface designed to produce beats as roller luggage is pulled across. Tones are produced as the wheels of the roller luggage encounter different textures, and these tones will be arranged in a way to create beats. Multiple parallel surfaces are planned, as to allow... CONTINUE READING »
Bintel Vox (Bundle of Voices) is a prototype for interactive applications for Bluetooth enabled mobile phones: listen to voices of the past asking you for directions at a crossroad of their lives in early 20th century New York and leave a message for them with your advice.
Bintel Vox is a prototype for an interactive application for Bluetooth enabled mobile phones. Bintel Vox, \"bundle of voices\", is a fantasy word based on Yiddish and Latin. Listen to voices of the past asking you for directions. The real life owners of these voices are at a crossroad... CONTINUE READING »
Is there a correlation between the mood you\'re in and how you interpret an abstract work of art? Does your mood affect your interpretation? Take the test.
Many art collectors are drawn to abstract art because they see the work differently each time they approach it. Abstract works never give the exact same impression twice. Viewers don\'t get bored over time. Take this simple five-minute test to see if there is a correlation between your current mood... CONTINUE READING »
The Naked Pixel challenges our notions of decency in public arenas by manifesting each pixel of a naked photograph sequentially, and further \"undresses\" each pixel when the lights go out.
The Naked Pixel challenges our notion of decency in public arenas by using the entire visual display to represent individual pixels of a nude photograph sequentially over time. By viewing the piece, the audience is not only unaware of what they are viewing, but their primary visual cortex can not... CONTINUE READING »
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