Big Apple hackerspace NYC Resistor recently held an edible QR code competition, including a laser-etched tortilla, waffles with chicklets and chocolate chips, and jello-cube creations. Trammell Hudson’s Flickr set of the event tells the story. Neat hackerspace event idea!
It’s been a week and already people are doing cool things with the Kinect. We have to hand it to MS, they created a genuinely awesome device, and one that is apparently a breeze to hack! Kudos for Adafruit for making it happen. Someone (ahem) needs to offer more of these prizes! [Video via Beyond […]
The exhibition Opera Mecatronica is on show in Reaktor 1 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, where รโฆsa and Carl Unander-รยญรขโฌยScharin present eight mecatronical opera and dance works. The exhibition room is a unique 13000 m3 space, 35 meters below earth which was Sweden’s first nuclear reactor, designed for scientific research, built in […]
Artist and Eyebeam resident Aram Bartholl’s USB Dead Drops project is raising lots of discussion in the security and file sharing communities. The project release is now in full swing with this video showing how the USB drives were installed in different places around NYC. Aram writes: ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to […]
Aram Bartholl writes: I am pleased to preview ‘Dead Drops‘ a new project which I started off as part of my ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC the last couple weeks. ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs […]
The IR Jammer kit provides a bit of safe and non-destructive fun with anything that receives IR signals.
Architecture and design firm nemaworkshop created this cool NYC coffee shop that resembles a library turned on its side. Tiles printed to look like bookshelves line the floor, walls, and ceiling while light fixtures seem to defy gravity as they project out of the walls. Neat! [Via Dezeen]
