So apparently we’re not the only ones learning how to make stuff… Here’s a nifty idea put together by a bunch of aurtistic folks with the focus on creativity, recycling and the communal spirit. It seems they take electronical gadget novices and transform them into DIY techno hacks. It would be interesting to see a…

Artist Amy Youngs has formulated a socially stimulating idea for a project known as “Live, Live” involving Robert Morris College, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Chicago Transit Authority. Youngs piece is a public installation of three unique looking phones that are intended to encourage conversation between people on the CTA platform….

As part of her microRevolt Project, which focuses on women’s labor history and anti-sweatshop works, new media artist Cat Mazza has creted KnitPro 2.0, a web application that allows the users to create a knit, crochet, needlepoint and cross-stitch pattern from their own digital images. Here is an example: More information about Mazza’s project here,…

While this may not be as snazzy as many of the technical gizmos to befound on the web, this hydraulophone is a fun work. The co-creator,Steve Mann, already has an extensive body of work in human-computerinterfaces, but this musical instrument seems to be something just playful.To create a piece that directly involves individuals only at…

Since grammar school I have heard about the “human chip” that some say would eventually store all your personal information and wipe out all other forms of currency, since the chip would be the most convenient. Most people I talk to say that the chip is in fact the coming of Satan since this “mark…

In exploring my role as an individual with the potential to create a more peaceful world in my immediate environment as well as in the extended interdependent network of life across the globe, taking into account and exploring our fascination with technology is vital. As an inevitable force in the development and “progress” of society,…

In 1964, the first design for a computer pointing device, the mouse, was introduced. Who ever thought back then that it would end up to be an essential component for computers? It’s now 2007, and Novint has built a future must-have for desktops (at least I think so). What first began as a project to…

The Onion Card, created by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, is a card that through a bar code connects to a data storage place of personal information, so in a sense is kind of an identification card. The card would allow users to “peel” out certain parts of a bar code containing specific information (…

The tactile vest display is one of many tactile devices used to control movement of the one wearing the vest. The specific use of this vest is to play as a navigation aid in the outdoors. The vest is a good idea, if used properly. The location of the vest would be displayed on the…

I choose the living artistic installment by Eduardo Kac. (Specimen of Secrecy About Marvelous Discoveries) It was a multiple piece display of “Biotopes”, these biotopes represent his art that was a living subunit. They show a similar image that is in constant change. Changed only by itsself. He introduced multiple microorganisms that interact with each…

Packet Garden is a free software that records a users personal internet use and expresses the information that it records in a visual dipiction of a garden which takes into account geographical location of servers visitted, type of data accessed, uploading and downloading. The image of the garden is saved on the user’s computer and…

Efosa Okundaye wrote: I read about how Dulce Pinzon wrote a series on Mexican immigrants workers in New York, and how they were paid low wages and had to work really long hours. There were also Mexican workers who had to work in order to give money to their families back in Mexico. This caught…