The Spitz Hotel in Linz, Austria has decided to change its look. Several artists show their work throughout the hotel. In the lobby there is a display that resembles a bookcase which shows Linz’s events, activities and it’s cultural institutions. One of the more interesting facts about this hotel is it’s Reactive Wall. When one…

This is a plate hooked up to a tiny computer. It is designed to help you manage how you eat. It has weight sensors so if you put too much food on it the plate will give different responses like “Stop right there!, and what about excess weight gain?” The plate can also measure how…

so it seems that they have taken the idea from the movie Minority Report(2002) where the actor Tom Cruise(Chief John Anderton) uses a futuristic form of screen to pull in images out and in, and make them bigger or decrease the size. the entire premise is touch-based basically.they have something like this in hollywood at…

As a photography major, and a person who does not have extra hours to spend in Photoshop trying to learn all the shortcuts, I would find this product extremely helpful. Apparently a company has come up with an invention that will allow users of Photoshop to place a skin on their keyboard that has all…

So apparently we’re not the only ones learning how to make stuff… Here’s a nifty idea put together by a bunch of aurtistic folks with the focus on creativity, recycling and the communal spirit. It seems they take electronical gadget novices and transform them into DIY techno hacks. It would be interesting to see a…

Artist Amy Youngs has formulated a socially stimulating idea for a project known as “Live, Live” involving Robert Morris College, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Chicago Transit Authority. Youngs piece is a public installation of three unique looking phones that are intended to encourage conversation between people on the CTA platform….

As part of her microRevolt Project, which focuses on women’s labor history and anti-sweatshop works, new media artist Cat Mazza has creted KnitPro 2.0, a web application that allows the users to create a knit, crochet, needlepoint and cross-stitch pattern from their own digital images. Here is an example: More information about Mazza’s project here,…

While this may not be as snazzy as many of the technical gizmos to befound on the web, this hydraulophone is a fun work. The co-creator,Steve Mann, already has an extensive body of work in human-computerinterfaces, but this musical instrument seems to be something just playful.To create a piece that directly involves individuals only at…

Since grammar school I have heard about the “human chip” that some say would eventually store all your personal information and wipe out all other forms of currency, since the chip would be the most convenient. Most people I talk to say that the chip is in fact the coming of Satan since this “mark…

In exploring my role as an individual with the potential to create a more peaceful world in my immediate environment as well as in the extended interdependent network of life across the globe, taking into account and exploring our fascination with technology is vital. As an inevitable force in the development and “progress” of society,…

In 1964, the first design for a computer pointing device, the mouse, was introduced. Who ever thought back then that it would end up to be an essential component for computers? It’s now 2007, and Novint has built a future must-have for desktops (at least I think so). What first began as a project to…

The Onion Card, created by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, is a card that through a bar code connects to a data storage place of personal information, so in a sense is kind of an identification card. The card would allow users to “peel” out certain parts of a bar code containing specific information (…