This is a collaborative photo project from Flickr.com that really caught my eye. The clip above begins with talking about how photos these days can be made into extremely high resolutions to do ridiculous things, like putting a chapter per column and make an entire book a single photo. One of the pictures he references…

This robot dog can do what most dogs can do. It can run, climb, and walk on rough terrain. The dog can also carry heavy loads. So this dog is kind of like a real dog, but it can also do things that regular dogs can’t do like carry heavy things. The dog has a…

4-D Pixel takes architecture to a new level with it’s human-interactive wall. This “wall” is made up of hundreds of physical pixels. When a person’s activity is sensed, this wall responds and adapts to the human presence. Depending on the behavior of its surroundings, this wall can be aggressive or sensual and displays relievo letters…

Gender Anarchy Project is an installation which breaks the boundaries and assumptions of someone’s gender. This specific movement started in the nineties, the way this works is there is a black box with a PC computer which are hidden, somewhat of a bigger box hiding the equipment. The PC and power are connected to an…

The Audiovisual Environment Suite is five interactive systems which let people create and perform abstract animation and synthetic sound in real time. Each environment is an attempt to design an interface which is easy to learn, it can also yield infinitely variable and personally expressive performances in the visual and aural domains. These systems permit…

The Feral Robot Dog is one of those robotic dog toys that has been restructured to detect environmentally harmful elements, such as radioactivity or Trichloroethylene (TCE). The dogs are programmed to run in packs and are attracted to the specific harmful element they have been programmed to detect. xDesign is a group that works to…

United Visual Artists, creators of interactive experiences centered around light. They combine three disciplines: art direction, production design and software engineering. Their philosophy is to tightly integrate these elements to deliver real-time, immersive and responsive experiences. http://www.studio469.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/uva.jpg

Thinking of basic automata automatically reminded me of a favorite animation of mine by Disney called WALL.E. (I highly recommend this movie be seen for those interested on counter-opposing arguments on Hayle’s Posthuman article, which is man’s overdependence on machines, which results in machines obtaining a superior control on man. Yet WALL.E attains a character that is generally…

I found this by accident but I loved it. It relates to the use of LEDs and how it can be projected to a certain degree of realism. In this case, it focuses on how holograms are formed through the intertwining of certain degrees of light, forming an image possessing the illusion of perspective depth…

So I was thinking about our LED throwies and was wondering if there was anything else like that out there. There was. An artist group called Graffiti Research Lab were actually the first ones to come up with the “Throwies”. G.R.L. was founded by Evan Roth and James Powderly and has operations in cities around…

I saw this on youtube in my drawing 1 class and was completely amazed. Everything from the art to the sound effects is so fascinating. I wonder how long this took, in the video you can clearly see days passing by, as it gets dark and the clouds are always moving and very fast which…

Well, something very interesting caught my eye, a new product form company Plastic Logic named e-newspaper reader. This product is not the first of its kind on the market; however it’s the newest one. This black and white, E ink device features a wireless link to download content, room enough to store hundreds of pages…