Sweet Light Sculpture

This boxed light sculpture is really interesting. It makes me woner exactly how they are making the lights move that way…must be LED’s. I’m still pretty amazed by this! Verrry nice.

Shaking Time Mirror

This group of pieces is comprised rear projected screens or kiosks connected to video cameras and computers. When a viewer stands in front of one of these pieces, their image is reflected on the screen after it has been interpreted by the computer. The displays change rapidly yielding a smooth transition tightly linked to the…

Body Surfing

People claim that in this increasingly digital age, we are doing less for the physical being, Body surfing proves otherwise. Body Surfing uses state of the art body sensing technology allowing visitors to investigate the limitations and pleasures of the body in contexts such as dance, physical labor, sport, feasting, erotic touch, hunger, sickness, old…

Bubble Clothing

This garment, called Watashi-Chan, by Tomoko Ueyama is covered with balloons that inflate when sound is detected around the wearer. The interesting part is that they can even be sounds that the wearer cannot hear. Once a frequency is detected, one of six electromagnetic valves open to allow air into the balloons depending on the…

Maxime Lecours’ interactive table

Maxime Lecours changed the atmosphtere of one coffee house with the addition of The Little Table. This unique table traces the movement of objects put on the table. Depending on how often the object is on the table and how fast the movements are of the people interacting at the table, a projection reflects this…

REBUILDING ONE’S SELF

Wouldn’t it be amazing if you were to break something and that object would put itself together? This robot is a shape shifting device that can reassemble itself when separated or dissembled. Their approach is known as self-reconfigurable robotics. Last year a team of US researchers from different universities put together a blueprint for shape-shifting…

ATM Robot

People have always wanted a robot to do something for them, well now there is Felica. This robot is designed to show you the amount of cash in you account and it is also has face recognition. To use the robot, all you have to do is scan your cell phone and look into the…

Automated Baggers from Autorbag.com

As if Americans aren’t lazy enough without automated bagging machines… Well here they are! Automated bagging machines are capable of bagging up to 80 bags a minutes. Package size changes may be adjusted in under 2 minutes due to the high tech touch screen, offering a fast and cost-effective packaging solution. To be quite honest,…

Jen Lewin – light harps

Jen Lewin has being working on the “Light Harps” from 1999 to 2008, the last 12 years. The harps are installations using movement and a laser light to trigger a sound. The harps varied from art installations, to stage performance installations and large outdoor sculptures. The light harp is an interactive instrumant played when the…

robotic hand

This shows what we could possibly do on Friday. One Friday, one robotic hand …. Let’s get to work. Get ‘er done.

Cooler Scooter: I WANT One! NOW!

So i remember seeing a person riding on one of these before and my first thought was, wait was that person riding a cooler? They look ridiculous riding a friggin cooler. so i told all my friends and they were just like wtf, but then i thought i want one of those cool ass scooter…

ITS ALIIIIVEEEE!!!!!!!!!! ((well… not really, but we tried))

RESPONSIVE ARTS: This wonderful creation I’ve decided to call “Pokey 2008R.A.” is the product of every student in friday’s 9a.m. class. This creative little expansion of speakers wires and sounds took our class two class meetings to make. it may look a little weird/ strange when you approach it, but that’s ok because we wanted…