Like to scare little children? Well how about hacking into those 5 dollar annoying ghosts to make them do what you want to do. I am adding a twist to my Barbie and looked up how to hack toys. There are tons of Halloween hacking tools to make this Halloween a little more spooky!
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Text Messaging Mousetrap
Rentokil just came out with an interesting gadget. Its the Rentokil Rada Super Mousetrap. This mouse trap drops all the freindly and touchy-feely ways of dealing with the pesky rodents in you house. The Rentokil mousetrap lures the little mice into the chanmber with special infared beams. Once the mouse is in the chamber it…
Virtual books
Browsing through an interactive art exhibition, I found this cool library idea called “Librovision.” With the ‘Librovision’ someone can look through the virtual book by coming very close to the screen that the book is projected on, from a computer, and near the tips of the page moving your finger from left to right, depending…
One Smal Step for man ONE Giant leap for Mycoplasma laboratorium
According to Craig Venter the scientist who commercialized the efforts of the human genome has claimed to have created a synthetic chromos0ne.Organisms can indeed be made to help with medical treatments, environment protection, energy production and, unfortunately, biological weapons. the chromosome is made of 381 genes and was able to live successfully after a fifth…
Bubble Fun
In “bubble cosmos” colorful computer graphics are projected onto smoke-filled bubbles. When they’re made to burst, they blare out sound effects, the images are transformed, and installation visitors are treated to a whole series of amazing visuals. Cameras determine the respective position and status of each individual bubble and whether they are intact or not….
LA Fog
In class, we have went over several art installations which correspond with our enviroment. Often times these installations alert us about the ‘cleaness’ of the enviroment. I came across this installation by Charles Gaines, which is similar in alerting us on the pollution of our society. The ‘Greenhouse’ looks like a box but has a…
Oh My Gosh!
Throughout the years, technology in the medical field has grown significantly; machines helping the doctors be more precise, and that is all I can think of (I am sure there is more). Lately, Auckland City Hospital in New Zealand has been working on a new stent that will dissolve into a lactic acid (which is…
Open Source Hardware
It may not be the best looking piece of hardware in the world, but it is one of the most interesting to me. Bug Labs is basically trying to create a DIY piece of hardware that the user can attach anything from a touchscreen to an accelerometer. It seems as though in the future, the…
Extreme Turtle
A dear ol’ turtle had lost its hind leg, and in an interesting effort to save the poor beast from a fate many other turtles might have faced, someone has equipped it with a tire. No motor attached, unfortunately, so we won’t be seeing any speeding turtles anytime soon. To cope with the muddy terrain,…
“The Rodent Problem Has Been Dealt With”: Recieve A Text Message When The Pests Are Taken Care Of.
If you’re sadistic, love technology, and enjoy inescapable obstacles, then this is your bag. Using Infrared beams, pressure sensor, and poison gas, Rentokil’s RADAR Super-Mouse Trap is deemed a quick and humane way of dealing with rodent problems. By luring the problem rodent with an infrared beam, the mouse activates pressure sensors in the trap…
Musical Stairs
In 2006, “Tuned Stairs,” (prototype shown here,) was installed within the huge staircase of the building Centre Pompidou, in Treviso Italy. Conceptually, “Tuned Stairs” was a long stairway that had xylophone tones incorporated into the steps themselves. Ascending and descending scales were then produced depending on wether someone was climbing up or down. By jumping…
Punch the !ighting
Here’s a little invention that might help relieve us from our daily stress… Punch the !ighting! The more you beat the crap out of this thing, the brighter it gets! Not only is this a stress relieving device, but also a room light. It’s a nice combination I’d say. I would love to have this…