Hand wrench
Paul Julius Martus designed this “hand” wrench and cast it out of bronze. Creepy and lovely! Via Core77.
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Giant seven segment clock provides room lighting as well
This giant digital overhead clock by Realities:United and titled “Contemporary Architecture” was commissioned by NYC gallery, Artists Space and showed time overhead in a big way as well as provided room lighting. Check out the time-lapse video link below to see how it worked. Contemporary Architecture Video
Environmentally aware dogbot
Sparky the art-robot responds to air quality, movement, and touch by collapsing his body in relative amounts – indicating quality of environment. Sparking responds negatively to: carbon monoxide, cigarette smoke, alcohol, too much dark lighting, hitting and yelling. Any of the above factors (depending on severity) makes Sparky drop it’s head and tail, whimper, and […]
Second Skin wearable tech show
BBtv looks at some of the wearable tech at the Second Skin fashion show, held at the San Francisco Exploratorium. Wearable Tech fashion show: Second Skin
Clock from bike parts
Guy Vardi writes in: The clock is build out of bicycle parts. One of the design principles was to use only used elements. Edison once said that to invent you need good imagination and a pile of junk. The designers took his advice seriously. The Bike clock was build by Yedidya Vardi and Vladimir Zviagintsev […]
Parsons Design & Technology show
The folks in Design & Technology at Parsons the New School for Design are having their MFA thesis show this Friday at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York. Projects will range from interactive installations to animations to computational graffiti to anything you can imagine. 2008 MFA Design & Technology Thesis Show Opening: Friday, May […]
Sand egg sculpting
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool A tranquil beach egg courtesy of Lenny&Meriel – Petit port egg on Flickr