This is actually a very simple yet clever idea. If people knew how much water they were wasting on their lawns and filling up their bath tubs, they might reconsider their consumption habits. With all the chemicals and pesticides washing into our water supply. People may want to conserve fresh water a little more instead…
Author: Sabrina
Growing More With Less
“It takes about 15,000 to 30,000 square feet of land to feed one person the average U.S. diet. I’ve figured out how to get it down to 4,000 square feet. How? I focus on growing soil, not crops.” Biointensive farming incorporates many of the same practices as biodynamics, and takes them a few steps further….
Street Writer
This is one of the first articles that got me interested in incorporating technology into my art. I really like the guerrilla art aspect of this project. This is basically a van that has been turned into a giant dot matrix printer. It started with a remote control car with downspraying paint and evolved into…
Monkey Controls Robot, With Its Mind
Idoya, a 12-pound, 32 inch monkey, was successful in making a 5-foot humanoid robot walk on a treadmill using only her brain activity. The event marks the first time brain activity has been able to successfully control the the movements of a walking robot. By implanting electrodes into Idoya’s brain, scientist were able to record…
The face we choose to share
Daniel Rozin is an interactive artist. “Paint Cam” is participatory and global whereby viewers create a paint collage portrait of themselves. The work is viewable at 50 different locations worldwide (Times Square, Eiffel Tower, etc…)It’s an introspective creation of the face choosen to show the world, that reflects one’s culture and life. It’s anthropology bleeding…
The Dream Director
Dreams are something that we as a culture don’t completely understand, there are still many things we don’t know about them which is what makes them so intriguing. In this video Luke Jerram and his team came up with the idea to influence or direct dreams with music and sounds. He takes volunteers and has…
Fire alarm clock
The guys at Hackedgadgets.com grew wary of fickle alarm clocks that do little to wake them up and are fed up with the weak ringing of standard alarms. The solution was simple: create a louder alarm clock. They accomplished this goal by hooking up a standard alarm clock mechanism to a fire alarm bell. Standard…
IVY External Hard Drive
The IVY external hard drive is a new drive that is being created that will manipulate it’s “skin look” based on the content that is stored on it. The look is abstract and seems to be based off of shapes and colors, but is said to constantly be changing with the data that you put…
Message in a Bottle
I thought this was interesting because it’s a more modern take on a message in a bottle. Several GPS tracked bottles (first image) were sent off to sea from the South-East coast of England, hoping to reach The Chatham Islands in the South Pacific. The bottles transmitted their latitude and longitude back to Ramsgate England…
Rob Seward’s Consciousness Field Resonator
Rob Seward’s Consciousness Field Resonator mimics research in the field of micropsychokenisis, particularly in regards to computerized random number generators, set up all over the world by the Global Consciousness Project at Princeton University, that look for an unusual spike in patterns of numbers. These patterns seem to correlate with significant historical events. For example,…
Orchid Signals
Mateusz Herckza is the author of Life Support Systems- Vanda, which was created in 2004. The system is an attempt to first analyze electrical signals emitting from eight Vanda orchids and then use “language modeling techniques” to create a virtual, visual model of the orchids’ output. The model continues to reproduce orchid signals once the…