Here is something that goes back to our conversation about internet issues. Something to add to the never ending conversation… A survey found that almost 14 percent of teens in China are exposed to internet addiction. It even got more alarming when Sun, a 17 year old who has recently checked in, would at times…

This is a pretty simple concept, yet very useful. The lid is heat sensitive and when the liquid is too hot the lid is red. As it cools it turns brown. This is another way to help people that forget that coffee is a hot liquid not burn themselves. Kena

So taking a pee while playing a game? i’m down. marcel neundorfer designed an urinal to do just that. peeing on a certain spot in the urinal controls a character or object on the screen to play one of many mini games programmed into the system. marcel said the basis of this type of urinal…

The Hole – video powered by Metacafe I find this demo to be pretty interesting for two reasons. One he applied his knowledge of basic circuitry and using that to create and innovated idea. I’m impressed that he could change the function of a normal flashlight to have an additional function. Also, I think that…

Fast becoming one of my favorite contemporary artist Amy Young displays simple brilliance in her Mnemonic Devicive. The piece is composed of a Theremin, circuitry exposed, inside of a tire. A Theremin is an instrument played without being touched; the pitch of the emitted tone changes as ones hand gets closer or farther away. I…

So I followed this link for a while and I have to say how much I’m reminded that LEGOs are cool. I went here 1st: http://www.comlink.de/cl-hh/f.moeller/creator%20collection.html a link to some art from a previous LEGO design program. Next I went here: http://ldd.lego.com/download/ and downloaded the newest version. They start you off with a car chassis…

These photographs were taken by using long exposures to capture all the light motion that you wouldn’t normally notice while playing Atari games. I thought this was a very ingenious idea for taking pictures and I wonder how many other applications this method could be used on. The photos are beautiful works that inspire me…

Here is a valuable example for one of our interactive modes. There is another option for a laser projection which I think is a possibility as well. This site is the Sh*%, it has a lot of the open source available for us. This will give us some leeway to be a little more open…

What’s the best thing to do when you’re bored? Laugh out loud, and I know just the place to help you with that. As I sat back and pitched my eyes at my favorite programs on [adult swim] last Sunday, a bump came on for a website called superdeluxe.com. It wasn’t the first time I…

This site is just about everything you could want that has to do with LEDs and ranges from cool to just well worthless. But I would check it out, maybe you could get some LED ideas for whatever it is you want to decorate, create with are fun little lights! http://www.theledlight.com/gadgets.html

U.S. artist and Assistant Professor of New Media at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Kevin Hamilton, created this piece for the space at the Gahlberg Gallery at College of Dupage last summer. The installation consisted in: “[..] a grid of 60 inter-connected control panels. Through labeled LED indicators, each yellow panel purports to monitor a…

I just thought this was so cool. This guy apparently took some firefly statistics of when fireflies light up and how many times and made his own jar of fireflies. He explains how he did it on his little blog. I think this is really neat. I always felt bad when I was little put…