Daniel Rozin is an interactive artist. “Paint Cam” is participatory and global whereby viewers create a paint collage portrait of themselves. The work is viewable at 50 different locations worldwide (Times Square, Eiffel Tower, etc…)It’s an introspective creation of the face choosen to show the world, that reflects one’s culture and life. It’s anthropology bleeding…

Dreams are something that we as a culture don’t completely understand, there are still many things we don’t know about them which is what makes them so intriguing. In this video Luke Jerram and his team came up with the idea to influence or direct dreams with music and sounds. He takes volunteers and has…

The guys at Hackedgadgets.com grew wary of fickle alarm clocks that do little to wake them up and are fed up with the weak ringing of standard alarms. The solution was simple: create a louder alarm clock. They accomplished this goal by hooking up a standard alarm clock mechanism to a fire alarm bell. Standard…

The IVY external hard drive is a new drive that is being created that will manipulate it’s “skin look” based on the content that is stored on it. The look is abstract and seems to be based off of shapes and colors, but is said to constantly be changing with the data that you put…

I thought this was interesting because it’s a more modern take on a message in a bottle. Several GPS tracked bottles (first image) were sent off to sea from the South-East coast of England, hoping to reach The Chatham Islands in the South Pacific. The bottles transmitted their latitude and longitude back to Ramsgate England…

Mateusz Herckza is the author of Life Support Systems- Vanda, which was created in 2004. The system is an attempt to first analyze electrical signals emitting from eight Vanda orchids and then use “language modeling techniques” to create a virtual, visual model of the orchids’ output. The model continues to reproduce orchid signals once the…

Charles Altmann is a Danish tinkerer who began this project with his interest in building an affordable home-made tonearm for his turntable. With its completion and dizzying low cost (~5$) he embarked on a project to create a complete turntable from scratch for his garage utilizing his electrical engineering skills and love of motorcycles. This…

A bit too extreme, a new legislation proposes the spying of French Web surfers in order to terminate the exchange of copyrighted material. Those terminated will also face some legal repercussions; those who wish to debate their termination will have to go through a long drawn out bureaucratic process. Stating the obvious violation of privacy,…

Apparently, demand for bandwidth is so hot that it might be possible that internet accessiblity from developed countries will be gridlock. Speeds, according to International Internet Alliance (IIA), will return to dial-up speeds if not enough money is used to upgrade the internet infrastructure. This could also impact feature start-ups that could potentially be the…