Paho Mann’s Junk Drawers– I have photographed Junk Drawers and Medicine Cabinets on and off since 2000. My work explores the persistent mark of individuality in a culture that brands, packages, and relentlessly promotes conformity. Even among those who attempt to fit into society, there is an amazing wealth of information each individual reveals in […]
Want someone to know how many times you applied deodorant today? Neither do the creators of Zero Privacy. Bridging the gap between real-world hygiene and the social networks taking over the virtual world, iamclean.org offers up an intriguing way to keep tabs on someone’s level of body odor. Laurier Rochon and Marc Beaulieu built a […]
Thomas O’Connor’s “USB Floppy Drive” is a nice reimagination of technology from the not-so-distant past. We’ve seen a lot of these imaginative USB drives and hopefully we’ll see a kit soon that will let you easily create your own design. via Core77
Techdweeb has a great collection of circuit bent gadgets… I really like the “Super Ear Blaster”. The bender writes- This was one of those generic chinese drum machine thingees, the kind that shares its guts with 1000s of other toys, but the external plastics change depending on who does the packaging. I really like this […]
Tom Eckert makes incredible wooden sculptures that often look just like draped cloth. He also made this awesome Tank Chair. From the images of his tromp l’oeil sculptures, you would never know that that satin is actually carved and sanded from wood.
“Shade Pixel” is a physical display that uses deformable skin to represent live information. The project was developed at the Design Media Lab at Korea’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). From the description: “The prototype display is 11 x 7 pixels large and is made up of a skeleton of 77 solenoids with […]
This installation, entitled “Without Records” by Japanese experimental musicians Otomo Yoshihide and Yasutomo Aoyama employs over 100 record-free turntables to create a sound piece dedicated to the result of the dissappearing technology of LPs. Each turntable is augmented with some form of object to create a different effect on the needle arm as it passes […]
