Month: July 2008

Beer bottle blaster de art

Beer bottle blaster de art

This eye(and ear)-catching bottle cannon is on display as part of the SUPERDOME exhibition @ the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Regine from we make money not art shares details – Arcangelo Sassolino‘s Afasia 1 is a nitrogen-powered sculpture that shoots empty beer bottles, those icons of rock culture, against a wall at 600km/hr inside […]

More trees with eyes!

More trees with eyes!

Spotted in the comments of this earlier ‘seeing’ tree post – Rick Unger & Curt Wiebe created these ‘Arboreal Sentinels’ for the ’06 Winnipeg Folk Festival. As you can see from these photos, we came up with prosthetic appliances for the trees which contain a pair of eyes. Each eye is made from half of […]

August Craft Leftovers Monthly

It’s Craft Leftovers’ One Year Anniversary! Congrats to Kristin Roach on such a great site filled with wonderful projects. Now available in her shop, August Craft Leftovers Monthly — get a 3 month or 1 month subscription. If you were a previous subscriber, you’ll get 15% off this month’s subscription! Kristin writes: Each month subscribers […]

LEGO Wall-E

NXT Mindstorms hacker BlueToothKiwi created a working Wall-E trash collector robot and uploaded build instructions to the NXTLog. To mark the release of the film, the official web site has a ‘Build your own robot’ section where you get to choose the looks / behavior / mobility etc. And of course, if you got a […]

Device interrupts you on cue

Device interrupts you on cue

This project called “The Interruptor” is part of the larger project, “Adventures in Urban Computing” from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The device interrupts you when you are speaking and then gives you prompts with its built in display. Check out the link for lots of pics of it in action. Adventures in […]