From Atari Joyboard to Wii Fit: 25 years of “exergaming” @ Boing Boing Gadgets – wow, this is really comprehensive! After hugely successful launches in Japan and Europe, Nintendo’s Wii Fit exercise game is coming to the United States May on 19th, where it is sure to find sales success. But Wii Fit is hardly […]
Ok, I think we posted up a good chunk of the projects from NYU’s ITP show – it’s one of the few events where you can actually see some of the building blocks we cover @ MAKE taken to the extremes when tech-artists do projects, Tom Igoe (author of Making Things Talk) is an instructor […]
The naked pixel is a pretty LCD panel, but it’s actually doing quite a bit more… The maker writes – The Naked Pixel challenges our notion of decency in public arenas by using the entire visual display to represent individual pixels of a nude photograph sequentially over time. By viewing the piece, the audience is […]
Jamie Matthews created a nifty notification cube that glows when his Gmail inbox has a message. I was given a lovely glowing cube by the generous people at Linden Labs as a freebie at a job fair yesterday, and I decided that it was far too attractive to simply sit there on a shelf, pulsating […]
Here’s a video of the OLPC running XP, it’s from Microsoft – looks like the OLPC might be a win based system now via Engadget – post up in the comments with your opinions!
This project by artist Mike Rea is called “Suit for Stephen Hawking” and shows off this artist / maker’s exceptional wood making skills. Check out the links below for everything from a space suit to a four piece band constructed entirely from wood. Michael T. Rea: Suit for Stephen Hawking, [via]
Current_tv segment on Etsy Labs’ monthly Handmade Music nights. Homemade Music Makers [via] [Editor’s note – The music nights usually with MAKE, but for this one the entire NYC team was out of town at another event, so that’s why you didn’t see MAKE — our makers were there though! – it’s usually Create Digital […]
