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January 2, 2008
Brainwaves become commands
Martijn writes -
NeuroSky has made a system which can turn brainwaves into commands. This is a revolutionary technique that will have a big impact on all kinds of markets. The gaming industry for instance: playing games without a game controller. But also the elderly can benefit from techniques like this: not physically having to move to control electronic devices/machines around the house. Watch the videos. Must see.Brainwaves become commands - Link.
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Jan 2, 2008 12:00 AM
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December 28, 2007
Headphone art creates insane sound loops
"Headphones", an art piece by Andre Avelas employs 1,000 individual headphone sets where 960 work as speakers and 40 as microphones in order to create a continuous feedback loop that can be controlled on a nearby mixer. The project included an amplification circuit that added more hum to the feedback chain. Pretty interesting use of commonly found speakers. Check the link below for a sound sample to be posted soon.
Photos of the project - Link, artist site, [via]
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Dec 28, 2007 03:00 AM
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December 27, 2007
Murakami's sculptures light up LA's MOCA
We recently visited Takeshi Murakami's show at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen Contemporary wing. The show was really impressive showcasing over 90 pieces spanning the artist's career, in various media from film and animation to large metal and ceramic sculptures. The show features enormous pieces such as the "Oval Buddha" (2007) (pictured) and a "merchandise" room with hundreds of toys, games, posters, dolls, etc.. from Murakami's portfolio. This show is up until February 11, 2008 so if you are in the LA area, definitely check it out..
Murakami at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) - Link, pic via Scott Waterman
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Dec 27, 2007 03:00 AM
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December 26, 2007
Lightworks by Marcus Tremonto (photos)
I managed to get a chance to see the Lightworks show at the Phillips de Pury & Company gallery in NYC right before leaving for the holidays, it was fantastic. I think this is my favorite use of EL wire of all time (thin electroluminescent wire that looks like neon) - Link.
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Dec 26, 2007 05:00 AM
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Symphone mechanique turns junk into funk
Built during the "Control Workshop" (led by MAKE friend and artist Roger Ibars), the "Symphonie Mecanique" by Camille Roussel and Hrarch Arbach triggers a tape recorder that spins and causes random piano notes to play on an old torn apart synthesizer. Nice way to hack together two aging sound devices.
Symphonie Mechanique - Link
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Dec 26, 2007 03:00 AM
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December 24, 2007
Anarchist action figure
Very detailed anarchist action figure and box art placed in a local Target store (also called "shop dropping") from artist Packard Jennings - [via] Link & more @ the NY Times.
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A day at the mall - Link.
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Dec 24, 2007 02:00 AM
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December 23, 2007
Laser Engraving Fingernails
Martin and I engraved a calendar on our fingernails. As the months pass, we'll cut them off!
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Dec 23, 2007 03:32 PM
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Brass knuckle cup & purse
Very nice looking brass knuckle coffee cup, nice (re)make potential - [via] Link.
Related:
Peacekeeper handbag - Link.
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Dec 23, 2007 05:00 AM
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December 22, 2007
Patricia Piccinini's "Nature's Little Helpers"
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Patricia Piccinini's "Nature's Little Helpers" - amazing! Link.
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Dec 22, 2007 12:00 AM
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December 21, 2007
Space Invader - QR code scarf
Lendorff Kaywa's Space Invader AND QR code scarf. I really like the idea QR codes on knitted things... - [via] Link.
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Dec 21, 2007 02:00 AM
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Faux fur LED coat
Janet Hansen's AWESOME fake fur LED jacket! -
Here's a recent addition to our collection of faux fur coats lighted with LEDs. This mid-thigh length unisex coat is made with a black and white polka dot pattern, and we've inserted a color-changing RGB LED into the center of each of the spots (over 400 of them!).Faux fur LED coat - [via] Link.When the coat is first turned on, the lights are synchronized for a while (going through a slow fade of red, green, blue, gold, aqua, pink). Over time, the individual lights go through their changes independently and out of phase, for a nice random color changing efffect.
When the lights are off, they are completely hidden, and it looks like you are wearing a "normal" faux fur coat.
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Dec 21, 2007 12:00 AM
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December 20, 2007
Take a seat
Interesting concept video of chairs that follow you around in the library...
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Dec 20, 2007 03:00 PM
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Homemade etched DNA PCB earrings
These PCBs (printed circuit boards) etched with DNA are nice - Link.
From the pages of MAKE:
PCB Primer. Step-by-step instructions for making your own PCBs at home. MAKE 02 - page 164. Subscribers—read this article now in your digital edition - Link.
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Dec 20, 2007 02:00 AM
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Lightworks by Marcus Tremonto
I'm going to likely miss this showing, but it looks great - if you're in to interesting light sculptures check it out (NYC) -
Phillips de Pury & Company is proud to announce an exhibition of unique light works by MarcusTremonto. Approximately sixteen pieces will be on view and for sale at Phillips de Pury & Company’s Chelsea galleries from December 7 - 31, 2007.Lightworks by Marcus Tremonto - Link.In the contemporary spirit of welding the functionality of design and the transcendent quality of art, Marcus Tremonto has created a dazzling body of work that features chandeliers, tables and wall pieces as well as magnificent pieces in the form of table sculpture. These evocative works that manipulate and draw with light and which have been in development for the last three years will, for the first time, be showcased in a gallery setting
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Dec 20, 2007 12:00 AM
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December 19, 2007
Inflatable sculpture hangs out on building
Kerim Seiler's "MgBeth" a giant inflatable sculpture - [via] Link.
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Dec 19, 2007 05:00 PM
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Left over die cutting cupboards
This are really nice left over die cutting cupboards -
The panelling of the cupboards for this kitchen is made out laser-cut plywood, an industrial leftover from a company specialized in die-cutting cardboard for the packaging of luxury-goods. The wooden boards were used as punching-plates for punching out the shape of unfolded boxes from larger sheets of cardboard.Left over die cutting cupboards - [via] Link.We had to extract the razor-sharp knives from the slits before being able to saw the boards. This is a project of Lionel Devlieger in collaboration with Eric Van den Broucke.
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Dec 19, 2007 01:00 PM
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Eyes eyes eyes
Photographer and film director Rankin has an incredible gallery of eyes.... Link.
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Dec 19, 2007 06:00 AM
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Autonomous foosball table
Shane writes -
Our senior design project (at Georgia Tech) was an open ended design. We chose to create an autonomous foosball table. The ball as well as the opponent players are tracked in a vision system -- a downward looking webcam. All the main processing is done on an 800 MHz pentium 3 PC in Java, using the Java Media Framework. Once the processing is finished, the PC issues commands to a PIC microcontroller across a serial line. The microcontroller then issues commands to servos to move or kick.Autonomous foosball table - [via] Link.
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Dec 19, 2007 02:00 AM
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December 18, 2007
ITP Winter show -- highlights and video!
The annual ITP show is a two day exhibition of interactive sight, sound and physical objects by the student artists of ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University). Here are some of our favorite projects this year, this is a giant post - scroll scroll!
Picture here, single white android.
The 'Is our machines learning?' machines 2.0
The 'Is our machines learning?' machines is a networked art installation in which test-taking robots behave according to how users engage with a website composed of questions from real U.S. standardized tests. The physical installation consists of machines that are mechanically capable of making marks on standardized test forms with a pencil. These machines rest on top of antique school desks, ready to pencil in multiple-choice bubbles on SCANTRON test forms. In a separate online space, visitors coming to a website determine which multiple-choice answers the machines in the installation select to fill in. At this website, users can watch the machines respond to their input via a streaming video feed from the installation - Link & more.
Pusher/Puller
Sound/Space is a architecturally-inspired physical interface for pushing and pulling sound -- an interactive architecture prototype. The device is meant to both stand on its own, reacting to what it hears, and provide control over the audio environment for the users.
By pushing and pulling the points along the shape's exterior, users will be able to change the parameters of filters, delays, buffers, etc., allowing them to "play" the sounds around them as music- Link & more.
momo : a haptic navigation device
A haptic navigational device that requires only the sense of touch to guide a user. No maps, no text, no arrows, no lights. momo sits in the palm of your two hands and navigates you to an end location by leaning and vibrating. Akin to someone pointing you in the right direction, there is no need to find your map, you simply follow as the device gravitates to your destination - Link & more. The NYTimes got to this one just a few minutes before I did, ah well.
morgen: they'll wake you up
Project is based on the idea that while many people hate their alarm clocks, few hate their mothers. Morgen is an interface that uses the connections between people to make waking up a more dynamic and meaningful experience.
Via a Facebook application, friends and family can vie for the job of waking up the Morgen user on a particular day. They create a new message that makes its way wirelessly to one of Morgen's nodes--an expandable system of networked objects that the user can place throughout the room. The user knows that each day, they will receive a new message from someone, but they will not find out whom until they walk over to their alarm in the morning. At the time the user wishes to wake up, one of the nodes begins to make sounds, which gradually increase in volume - Link & more.
Compass Ion Organ
Compass Ion Organ is a posture and meditation support belt embedded with sensors which track the curvature of the users spine, and provides feedback for the wearer in the form of visual and sonic information via a microcontroler to software(Max/MSP/Jitter). The belt has a calibration button which can be set for each user in order to give personal readings about their current state of spinal posture. The information coming from the user influences changes in realtime, to visual and/or sonic algorithmic compositions. These are displayed on a large flat panel LCD screen which the user is facing. The compositions for the belt will explore different mathematical principals about balance and order, such as Lindenmayer Systems and Fractals, as well as irregularities, dealing with atonal and chaotic patterns. The feed back of visuals and sound is meant to guide the user into proper alignment and help them maintain it once they have it. The algorithms are designed to reflect balance when the spine is straight and discord when it is not - Link.
Plink Jet
Plink Jet is a robotic musical instrument made from scavenged ink jet printers. The mechanical parts of four printers are diverted from their original function, re-contextualizing the relatively high-tech mechanisms of this typically banal appliance into a ludic musical performance. Motorized, sliding ink cartridges and plucking mechanisms play four guitar strings by manipulating both pitch and strumming patterns like human hands fingering, fretting, and strumming a guitar. Plink Jet is designed to play itself, be played, or both. The result is an optionally collaborative performance between both the user and Plink Jet, with the user choosing varying levels of manual control over the different cartridges (fretting) and string plucking speeds (strumming) - Link & more.
Afterimage - Mind Frame II
'Afterimage - Mind Frame II' is a visual installation where the audience discovers and recreates images in empty picture frames. Physical, mental, and emotional interactions all come together in this piece. Audiences see an abstract moving image composed of tiny white blocks projected in a picture frame placed at eye level in a gallery setting. After the array of blocks stops moving, an afterimage of a familiar image is revealed in the otherwise blank frame.
The array of tiny, moving blocks forms a very vague representation of the original image and the afterimage it creates is not very clear. But regardless, the audience perceives a well-defined impression of the subject. This happens because the afterimage subconsciously invokes the original image from their memory, neurologically combining it with the afterimage from the eye. Therefore audiences don't see just the afterimage, but a combination of the afterimage and the original image from their own memory which fills in the details more fully as they remember the original image. It's a surprising experience, and created entirely in the mind from memories and a grid of glowing blocks! - Link.
Balance Board
This project consists of two pieces: a platform with embedded sensors and a box giving feedback (via light) as to how a patient's weight is distributed between the left and right feet. It can be used by a therapist to detect weight bearing & balance issues and track progress, by the patient to give feedback and positively reinforce correct weight bearing, or as an aid to exercises that help with weight bearing & balance. It was developed primarily for use by stroke patients - Link.
Jabberjockeys
Jabberjockeys consist of a pair of underwear (one male, one female) which discreetly inform a partner when the other gets aroused. By sensing subtle changes in temperature, moisture and pressure the undergarments detect arousal. The underwear automatically notifies the partner by activating vibrating motors sewn into the fabric of their underwear, thus enabling them to discreetly share their heightened emotions. The sensors that are sewn into the underwear are galvonic skin response sensors, pressure sensorss and a stretch sensor. The ouput consists of a grid of small vibrating motors. The controllers are Arduino Lilypads. Communication is achieved via bluetooth to the wearer's cellphones - Link.
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Dec 18, 2007 07:00 PM
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Zip tie ring
Stunning zip tie ring, and likely a good project to (re)make if you're in to casting your own jewelry - [via] Link.
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Dec 18, 2007 03:10 PM
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