Edo on Pink Tentacle writes – “Chatty, a talking mannequin with a human face, is on display at the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2006 (at Tokyo Big Sight through March 26). Developed by Ishikawa Optics & Art Corporation, Chatty has a face that is brought to life by means of a video projector inside its […]
“Real” Pong! – “Pongmechanik is an absolutely physical game. The game is realized electromechanically, and essentially consists of four elements: A relay computer, the mechanical movement with collision detection, the display and the acoustic components.” [via] – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Smeece85’s writes – “My final Model for our second Industiral Design project this semester. The assignment was to create a wooden toy inspired by da Vinci. My solution is a car powered by a falling weight. Then the weight reaches the bottom of its arch, it hits a trigger and […]
The Water Clock Children’s Museum of Indianapolis displays time as colored & filled up water vessels – “Designed by French physicist and artist Bernard Gitton…The clock, which is 26.5 feet tall, uses 70 gallons of a solution of water, methyl alcohol and food coloring. The alcohol prevents algae and fungus from growing inside the pipes […]
Vurdlak writes – “This website will be all about optical illusions. I will post new illusions every now and then and make this website biggest and most quality collection on the net. Over and out.” The site has a ton of great illusions that will make your eyes water and your brain tweak, also a […]
Micro art is going to be BIG this year, er small! – “Chinese micro-painter Jin Yin Hua has painted an image of a giant panda on a single human hair. The artist took 10 days to create the mini-masterpiece using a single rabbit hair as a paintbrush. Visitors to a Chinese gallery who wanted to […]
Sean writes – “PACK-MAN is a modified version of the game PacMan in which five joysticks combine to move the single PacMan. In other words, if three people move their joysticks upand two people move theirs down, then PacMan will move up. If one person moves left and one person moves right, PacMan will do […]
