Two students in Berlin worked together to hack a knitting machine from the ’70 so that it records your voice onto a sweater. All you have to do is just say a message into a microphone and the frequency of your voice is analyzed by a computer and is turned into binary code that the…

THESE SUNGLASSES HAVE A HIDDEN COLOUR CAMERA IN THE FRAME OF THE GLASSES. AND ITS ALL RECORDED TO A PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDER. WHICH IS COOL BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD KNOW THAT YOUR RECORDING THEM. SO NO MORE DEALING WITH THOSE HANDHELD ONES THAT ARE VERY NOTICEABLE WHEN YOUR RECORDING. WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU…

this program by Omron is able to detect how hard are you smiling. grading you from 0% to 100% using 3D face mapping technology. the software is also capable of capturing more than one face, while only taking a tenth of a second to process them. it is pretty cool but who cares, like you…

3% of our water is fresh and useable, and only a small bit of that water is readily available to start drinking. Now, there is a machine that pulls water from the air. Filtering the air and removing most airbourne bacteria, the water left behind is exposed to UV light for 30 minutes to make…

It’s like a game the more times you reply to a email an keep the same thread the more points you get. The thicker the like the more points you have. the thiner it is the fewer points you have. i think this is cool just to see how many people are doing this it…

Well in a nut shell it’s a GPS shoe. It can project arrows up to 20 feet ahead. The shoe is powered by the motion of walking running and none such. I think that it is very innovative and fresh so it’s pretty cool.

Do you like surfing the web but hate the ads? Do you like New Media art? Then Steve Lambert and Evan Harper of Eyebeam OpenLab are working on a Firefox extension for you! AddArt is based on adblocking software. Rather than just removing the ads, however, AddArt seeks to replace them with works of art…

Phonak has just launched a new in ear RF receiver. It is super high tech. It’ll pick up multiple frequences. It can pick up transmissions from mobile phones, walkie-talkies and specialized transmitters, with a range of 250m. A single battery life should be able to last 13 hours. Supposedly the piece is supposed to completely…

New in the news is Sony and their big idea of a MP3 player similar to that of Apple’s iPod and Microsoft’s Zune. WHY? It is not like they are not making enough money already with the prices of the PS3 and PSP, but now they want to create something that will not differ much…

Life Support Systems- Vanda is a project by Mateusz Herczka, an artist who’s main interest is in bioscience and artificial intelligence research. This particular project uses electrical signals from an orchid which are then translated by means of a hacked Xbox. The orchid’s “memories” are stored and used to create a virtual organism, able to…

Yeah, sure, it seems kind of broad and all, but everything that has to do with Nanotechnology is pretty rad. Nanotechnology “refers broadly to a field of applied science and technology whose unifying theme is the control of matter on the molecular level in scales smaller than 1 micrometre, normally 1 to 100 nanometers, and…

so i know this isnt a real post but i have been trying to hunt down a clearer version of our reading ( for the quiz) is anyone else having a problem with reading the artical? If you have any links to the reading on a different site please email me! -Bridget ( Bcoral9@gmail.com)