This piece by Daniel Rozin has 650 angle-cut pegs mounted on motors around a small camera in the middle. As the camera detects an object, the pegs rotate to reflect light and create shadows to form the image of the object in front of it. Rozin created software that breaks up the image in the…

Protrude, flow by Sachiko Kodama + Minako Takeno made in 2001 is a physical material that makes it easy for humans to create surreal illusions in pictures. Protrude, Flow is an interactive installation which expresses the dynamics of fluid motion of physical material, the dynamics of organic,wild shapes and movements of liquid by a computer…

This is a great link about 3D projection. The kind that we’ve seen in science fiction movies but perhaps didn’t think possible. It just goes to show you that the things we think are nearly impossible futuristic concepts from the Jetsons are not always far off. Furthermore, as an industrial designer, I am reminded that…

Douglas Irving Repetto’s Giant Painting Machine (Milano) is pretty much just that. Created with found objects and simple machines and motors, it is essentially a mechanical artist. It operates independently from the inside of a temporary four-walled room with walls of mylar, so the paintings can be viewed from the outside while they are being…

Pleo is a cute robotic dinosaur (baby Camarasaurus) which is designed by Caleb Chung, who also participated in designing Furby. This little dinosaur attracts children as well as adults a lot because it has its own personality and emotion. It can also learn things to adapt the environment. Whenever Pleo plays with people, it may…

I found this amazing video on a very controversial inventor by the name of John Roy Robert Searl. Searl claimed to have invented an anti-gravity and perpetual motion device. Although there is no real prof that the device is capable of what he is claiming I thought What he has come up with so far…

this is an amazing new computer that proves the future is here. OMG… i’ve never seen anything like this. watch how you can pay for your food, but i wonder what can happen if you make a mistake on paying for the bill?….hm….

Just wanted to share this funny video as another late response to Hayles‘ conclusion to post-human. This band called Flight of the Conchords created a song concerning one of the viewpoints in Hayles’ post-human article. Warning: Contains partial profanity and graphic verbal content. Rated F for Funny but not for Family.

This piece showed complete relevance to our current topic on circuits. Made by artist Steve Bishop, these air-dry clay sculpted cats are merged by a single fluorescent tube plugged in their eye sockets. He named this piece “Staring at Cat Staring at Cat Staring” but I also prefer the more literal interpretation that the Gizmodo site said,…

This robot is insanely awesome and ingenious. It does stuff that a real dog could not. i called up my 27 y/o brother who lives in New York and asked him if he knew of anything interesting on youtube. First he said oh type in “kicked in the nuts” and i was like it has…

I find these pieces amazing and really wish I could see them in real life. I have read that the artist elongates the drawing on the sidewalk so that they look normal and 3D as you walk up to them. If looking from a birds eye view you see the deformation. I think it is…

ned kahn is the artist who did the wind leaves scultures in Milwaukee. This is a wind-animated shade screen that consists of thousands of 9-inch squares of perforated aluminum mounted on low friction hinges so that the entire surface of the facade responds to the wind. (http://www.nedkahn.com/)