HackaWii presents the Rovio, a spy robot on wheels, controlled by a WiiMote from anywhere with an internet connection. The Rovio can take a picture, move, strafe, and turn in all normal directions. The WiiMote can also tell Rovio to snap a picture or return to its charging station. Rovio searches for two infrared beams…

In the midst of robots and other complex machinery, this ball intrigued me. This large, metal sphere is not merely interesting as a sculptural piece, it moves around the area it is in. Whenever a person’s presence is felt by this ball, sensors triggers a response. This response is its random movement that its uncontrollable…

This flower music is an interactive piece which makes sounds when people touch and swing the flowers. The Artist utilizes the electromagnetic wave to sense the movements between the people and the waving flowers. The center of flowers have installed LEDs which also connect to the sensors that are able to blink when the flowers…

Les Pissenlits – The Dandelions – is an interactive installation which features a projection of dandelions that have gone to seed. Viewers can blow on the screen, and the dandelion seeds fly away, just like real ones! Edmond Couchot and Michel Bret are French artists who both teach at the school of the Arts and…

ROCK-IT is one of the most intresting robots. It is basically do what other human can do, like walk dance, talk. This 9 feet tall ROCK-It enteratin human being in everywhere. It has lots of digital voices, whcih he use while talking with the crowd. Most people love to talk to rockit. He dance on…

This clip shows the best of the robot short films is interesting to say the least. It is about robots. It is about short films. It is about robots in short films. It is about short films with robots in them. What more could you ask for if you’re taking a responsive arts class. It’s…

So these guys have both too much time and too much money on their hands. This page and video describe the process of reprogramming an industrial robot to hurl bowling balls set ablaze into the desert night. It is both hilarious and terrifying. The juxtaposition between the intelligence required to successfully execute such a task…

These rickshaw robots are so efficient, especially in the overpopulated China…NOT, hahaha i mean who the hell would wanna sit in a bouncy-ass, rickety-ass, not smooth at all ass rickshaw? It looks unbearable. What a waste of time, the next step is to make the ride a smoothe one. I give it two thumbs down…

Did you enjoy watching the Matrix trilogy and its special effects ? If so, then you’re in luck. There’s a continuation, a continuation to those special effects that is. People at Toshiba hired an ad agency with its very own “Matrix effect” variant called “timesculpture” to plug Toshiba’s XDE technology. The company created a circular…

i am generally a big fan of the Rube Goldberg-esque machine and this is no exception. This combines my loves of mechanistic process and music wonderfully. It’d only be more amazing if it were real.

It seems that more and more steps are being taken to have that car of the future. Its really amazing that this car thinks for itself. Hopefully more advancements can be taken so that cars will be safer and that less people will be hurt in reckless accidents.

Architect David Fisher has designed an 80 story wind turbine powered tower. Located in Dubai, the rotating tower will cost an estimated $700 million and be finished in 2010. Fisher explains that the plan for a dynamic building arose from his idea that architecture should incorporate a 4th dimension, time. The building in motion will…