Here’s a link to an interview / article I did with Boston-based artist Pete Froslie. Pete makes some really nice projects with retro Atari gaming systems, Etch-A-Sketches, proximity sensors, and other cool objects. Above is a picture of his “Anxiety Book” which shuts abruptly when you get too close. Gizmodo Gallery: Adding emotional characteristics to […]
“TV remote control” by Philippe Kindelis – The TV remote control uses the principle of water displacement and the conductive properties of water to connect different cables. It highlights principles and processes that the user can interact with. It is an exploration as to whether water and electricity can be put together to create a […]
Avi Abrams of Dark Roasted Blend and James Golbey of Dump Trumpet have put together a gallery of cool, crazy, and innovative office tools. As an unrepentant office supply fetishist (a “swingliner?”), I can appreciate this sorta thing. Anybody seen my red stapler? – Link
This weekend while walking down Mill Avenue in Tempe, AZ, I saw an interesting sight. The sidewalk is made of bricks, but one of them was glowing. Upon closer inspection, it appeared one brick had been removed and replaced with an acrylic box containing a light source, which was backlighting a drawing on the inside […]
Here’s an interesting project by Caleb Coppock: Graphite conducts electricity. Two wires brush against the surface of a paper disk as it spins. The wires are connected to a simple electronic tone generator. When a line of graphite is drawn across the disk, connecting two wires, a tone is heard. The quality of the line […]
Avi Abrams has just finished up a fun three-part piece on Dark Roasted Blend showcasing some of the strangest, coolest, and most whack-a-delic cars, bicycles, and other vehicles that look like they just tooled in from some alternate dimension. World’s Strangest Vehicles, Part 3 – Link
Buff’s masking tape art photo set, great stuff!- [via] Link.
