Archive for the 'art' Category

iBrella - Control Your iPod with an Umbrella

This innovative project is further proof that art and technology are two sides of the same coin. Is an iPod controlling umbrella a post-modern performance piece or a superp mp3 player hack? Clearly it is both.
This hack appears to use accelerometers to detect the motion of the umbrella. As the user turns, jumps or […]

Device That Prints on Water

This bulky, awkward looking device is in fact a very complicated machine that exists solely for the purpose of drawing text and pictures on the surface of water using waves. The Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin, or AMOEBA, is about the size of a kiddie pool and can generate one character on the water every […]

Soundbomb: Non-Visual Graffiti

This cool little gadget is called a Soundbomb. It serves as a portable non-visual graffiti device for blasting your message without you having to actually to the blasting. Armed with a recording mechanism and a motion detector, it will blare anything you put on it when an unsuspecting victim draws near. It’s handy for […]

Geexy Tron Shoes

Ok, maybe I lied. Maybe these shoes don’t deserve the term geexy, but they are definitely … something. Some of you may know how I feel about Tron, but that aside I can’t imagine any circumstance where I would subject my feet to such nonsense. Kotaku seems to think otherwise though.
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