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Sotavento – what does a tree sound like?

Sotavento – what does a tree sound like?

If trees made music.. Sotavento is an artistic sound abstraction of the passionate and endless relationship between millions of trees and one single, inexorable wind, a wind that we all share. We establish an Internet-based, real-time movement communication between moving trees located in different countries. The trees’ “dance” is tracked down by two dual-axis accelerometers, […]

The Hyposurface (video)

Hyposurface is freaking cool – HypoSurface is the World’s first display system where the screen surface physically moves! Information and form are linked to give a radical new media technology: an info-form device. The surface behaves like a precisely controlled liquid: waves, patterns, logos, even text emerge and fade continually within its dynamic surface. The […]

Anatomy tattoos

Anatomy tattoos

We posted up the science tattoos last week, so I suppose it’s only fair to point to these science-like tats… The arm one is my favorite – Link. Related: Branded with science – Link. DIY Tattoo’er – Link. Kurt, the tattoo-robot – Link. Tattoo kit for kids (DIY Miami Ink!) – Link.

Bot rock with the Robotmakers

It’s called “Building a Robot,” but it’s not actually about building bots, it’s a silly-cool video featuring a plastic wind-up robot toy, called The Personal Apprentice (one of which sits on my desk staring back at me while I type this), and lots of cool analog synths, some home-built. Lots of animated patch bay action. […]

knife.hand.chop.bot

knife.hand.chop.bot

Wow, the knife.hand.chop.bot is my new favorite bot. The best part of the video is the laser dot that appears on the person’s hand before it starts its chopping – 5VOLTCORE is about to build a self-fulfilling cybernetic system, that plays with the senses and perceptions of the User and the sensors and the processes […]