We make money not art covers a series of biological art projects from the recent Interactivos? Garage Science workshop at MediaLab Prado. Andy Gracie’s Garage Laboratory uses homebrew magnetic field and radio wave generators and investigates their effects on the behavior of microbes found in urban environments – The project was using magnetic field data […]
The first annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech brought out some amazing work by sound makers. Jaime Oliver’s Silent Drum(seen above) took home the $5,000 first prize, but after viewing some of the competition, it’s plain to see the judges had their work cut out for them. Eric Singer’s GuitarBot, uses automated moving […]
From the comments: Our friend Rachel just took these pictures last week near Oaxaca (Mexico), and she shared them with us while staying at the Eco Village on her way to Portland. this “bici-maquina” (bike-machine), as they are called in Mexico, is used to power a water pump. i love the technological contrast, claypunkish.
This is a neat Touchable map via Wired Science. I wonder if Apple has a patent on the multitouch for non-portable applications. He says it was designed for kids to learn geography, but it appears that the Department of Education was not paying the bill. It’s kind of like the interactive LED table from EMS, […]
BakerTweet from BakerTweet on Vimeo. Via adafruit comes this awesome use of embedded tweeting, a bakery device that can alert hungry stomachs to what (please don’t make me say it) tweets are coming out of the oven. Sweet. The BakerTweet prototype is made up of an Arduino Duemilanove, Arduino Ethernet Shield, Ladyada Proto Shield, a […]
I LOVE this cargo container home, spotted on New World Geek. I could so live in that thing, provided I owned all the land beyond that window and my property was protected by a high fence, ’cause otherwise, it’s curtains (which would blown the whole effect). Exhibitionist Estates — coming soon to a development near […]
If you’ve ever needed to download video that’s distributed in a Flash application, you may have encountered a scenario where the video is being streamed via RTMP instead of progressively downloaded over HTTP. Luckily, there’s application called rtmpdump which, as its name suggests, is able to dump an RTMP stream as if you had downloaded […]
