The “Wooden Mirror,” created by Daniel Rozin in 1999, is in fact, exactly that.By installing motors behind hundreds of wooden squares, he has created his own version of a looking pond. As the onlooker peers in, their reflection is projected on a manipulated non-reflective surface. In my opinion, this is technology at its best, as…
Author: Sabrina
Laser Tag
No, this isn’t about that silly game where you run around in a dark room with those “futuristic” guns and armor with music blasting in the background.. Some graffiti artists have developed a new way to tag their artwork on walls and buildings. Basically they use a giant projector to project light on the building…
The Light (laser) Harp
The light harp designed by Jen Lewin is an interactive instrument. Judging from the title, you probably can guess that this harp is played by breaking a beam of light. As the beam of light is broken, the harp senses how fast the string is broken and at what location it is broken. The information…
a reversable source
Last month, my neighborhood was one or many that had no electricity for up to a week. As a result, the Displanes River ended up filling my basement because our sub-pump had shut down. We quickly rented a gasoline generator to turn it back. If we hadn’t, we’d have to buy a new furnace. The…
a show with your morning brew
Going off the air engine design of Robert Stirling does this tiny little mechanism give you an entertaining spin. Using pistons fueled by temperature difference, the wheel on this tinker toy spins, offering up to one hour of laughs and fun. That’s right, it doesn’t need to be sitting atop a cup of coffee or…
Sugar Powered Battery
Sony has just announced that they plan on coming out with a new battery, the catch is that it runs on glucose (sugar). The battery will basically work the same way the human body does. It will break down the carbohydrates with enzymes. This is a crazy invention in my opinion. Even though the battery…
Pepper Spray Ring
There is a new ring that is available on the market. Besides for looking good this new ring has an amazing feature. It can be used to spray pepper spray at someone. The page where I found this, boingboing.com did not say how it worked, but from the picture it seemed like the pepper spray…
Rat’s Brains
People have tapped into a rats brain and can give it directions. They stimulate the whiskers, and the rat is trained to go in the respective direction of which whisker is stimulated. If the rat does what it is told, its reward center of its brain is stimulated. Not actually being awarded and being told…
hacking to iphone
Hacking may seem like fun for the person behind it, but the person being screwed over may not think so. on this occasion its at your own risk, hacking into your iphone not only can be very tricky but costly. the “Harro” the one behind the instructions claims that if you follow the step you…
Holy Cats! 3D Printers?!?LoLzz
I saw one of Z Corporation’s first printers a while ago, and it was like seeing Angelina Jolie kiss her brother (amazing). The printer is able to create 3D models that were once created on a computer and can be used for just about anything. Architects and Engineers use these printers to present their projects,…
Intimate Transactions
Intimate Transactions is not only an impressive way for people across the globe to communicate, but the apparatus is also a unique work of art that that evokes the senses. By using a unique piece of ‘smart furniture,’ users are able to communicate with the smallest of gestures and movements. These actions transmit images, sounds,…
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you’re my only hope.
Long, long ago, in a university far, far away (USC) some really clever students came up with a way of generating what appears to be a free standing hologram, a la Star Wars. Really though, all they did was use “a standard programmable graphics card to render over 5,000 images per second of interactive 3D…