So basically this artist named Michael Rakowitz created a portable shelter for homeless people. The idea was inspired by the homeless person’s habit of sitting on warm air vents in winter to stay warm. The city got tired of that, and decided to install vertical vents, so that the homeless would not be able to…

Well it actually isn’t as cool as it sounds. Simply, it’s just a power strip with a shape of a table(or a table with a built-in power strip..). It’s a really good idea. I’m surprised we don’t see something like this in our every day life considering how cheap and efficient it is.

AUDIO BOMBINGI found this to be very inventive and creative for the urban art world. I myself am not a graffiti artist, but I grew up around many of them and appreciate the graffiti scene. This piece amazed me because of its simplicity in materials and because of its low profile presence. Basically, the medium…

Sadly, all of you who just bought the latest iPod video, got all your updates ready, downloaded 1000’s of songs and videos of the iTunes store, a new iPod has just been released. Yeah, you won’t have to redownload anything, but you’ll have to buy a whole new device or wait until yours become so…

Two students in Berlin worked together to hack a knitting machine from the ’70 so that it records your voice onto a sweater. All you have to do is just say a message into a microphone and the frequency of your voice is analyzed by a computer and is turned into binary code that the…

THESE SUNGLASSES HAVE A HIDDEN COLOUR CAMERA IN THE FRAME OF THE GLASSES. AND ITS ALL RECORDED TO A PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDER. WHICH IS COOL BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD KNOW THAT YOUR RECORDING THEM. SO NO MORE DEALING WITH THOSE HANDHELD ONES THAT ARE VERY NOTICEABLE WHEN YOUR RECORDING. WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU…

this program by Omron is able to detect how hard are you smiling. grading you from 0% to 100% using 3D face mapping technology. the software is also capable of capturing more than one face, while only taking a tenth of a second to process them. it is pretty cool but who cares, like you…

3% of our water is fresh and useable, and only a small bit of that water is readily available to start drinking. Now, there is a machine that pulls water from the air. Filtering the air and removing most airbourne bacteria, the water left behind is exposed to UV light for 30 minutes to make…

It’s like a game the more times you reply to a email an keep the same thread the more points you get. The thicker the like the more points you have. the thiner it is the fewer points you have. i think this is cool just to see how many people are doing this it…

Well in a nut shell it’s a GPS shoe. It can project arrows up to 20 feet ahead. The shoe is powered by the motion of walking running and none such. I think that it is very innovative and fresh so it’s pretty cool.

Do you like surfing the web but hate the ads? Do you like New Media art? Then Steve Lambert and Evan Harper of Eyebeam OpenLab are working on a Firefox extension for you! AddArt is based on adblocking software. Rather than just removing the ads, however, AddArt seeks to replace them with works of art…

Phonak has just launched a new in ear RF receiver. It is super high tech. It’ll pick up multiple frequences. It can pick up transmissions from mobile phones, walkie-talkies and specialized transmitters, with a range of 250m. A single battery life should be able to last 13 hours. Supposedly the piece is supposed to completely…