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Interface explores machine interfaces, operating systems, and robotics. It draws attention to the technological developments in automation and software ecosystems that provide seamless human-machine contact.
Angry Birds Birthday Cake Will Put Someone’s Eye Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hwVRzaQNkA Perhaps you have a cell phone. Perhaps you've heard of Angry Birds. With appeal untold, Angry Birds has somehow...
Solowheel: What The Segway Should Have Been
The Segway was going to revolutionize the way we travel medium distances. It didn't. Now, there is a new personal...
A Guy Creates, Models, Prints, And Plays An Open Source Guitar From Scratch!
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/19923712[/vimeo] In a sign that the creativity of people is truly unbound, a guy named Bård has designed, printed, and...
Geek Test: If You MUST Have A Hexacopter, Well…
Gadgets and toys have been a staple of true "geekdom" since the dawn of the being-a-geek-is-cool era. We've chronicled many...
The Garage-Built Gadget Every iPhone Video Addict Needs
Every now and then, an idea comes along that springs from a garage and turns into gold. Such will hopefully...
HP Gets Comfy With New Reclining Touchscreen
Once upon a time, Steve Jobs said that Apple didn't want to get into touchscreen desktop computing because it was...
Media Artists Start Prank Dating Site… and YOU Might Be On It
You may want to check out Lovely-Faces. Yeah it's a dating site - and we're not saying you're desperate. The...
Google Brings Art Galleries To The Web
In what could be the next great evolution in artistic appreciation, Google has decided that all of those wonderful pieces...
Old Laptop Into Digital Frame? Sure, Why Not?
Erik Pettersson isn't about to spend over 100 dollars on a lame, featureless digital frame. And why should he, when...
Furniture of the Future: A Visibly Invisible Chair
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/18703979[/vimeo]I'm not going to claim how this could possibly work, but a fellow by the name Ben Alun-Jones has created...
Apple To Try To Kill the Mouse (Again)?
There's really no reason to get up in arms every time an Apple patent is dissected, but this is particularly...
‘Brickify’ Does Exactly What It Says On the Tin
If you've ever wanted to convert your favorite logo/photo/image to Lego, now's your chance. The team at Carsonified has rolled...
A Flip Phone That Smart Phone Users Can Dig
Flip phones were hot in the first half of the millennium. If you weren't a stuffy business type with a...
This Procedural Lightpainting Thing Looks Amazing!
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/18839873[/vimeo] The application is intellectual, but the results are truly stunning. Christopher Warnow has demonstrated a technique of procedurally painting...
Robotic Plant Ushers in New Age of Unnecessary Robotics
Not content to robotically emulate any and all members of the animal kingdom, humanity has turned to another branch of...
Dear Confectionary Industry: Sh! It Just Got Real.
The concept of flavour just got turned on its ear as engineering students in Japan have developed TagCandy, a device...
Gundam Time-Lapse Video Proves Robots Are Cool, Even if They Can’t Move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf5csZsfLYo Surely you remember the giant 1:1 Gundam Japan erected in 2009. Built by Bandai, the monolithic robot has stood...
Apple Attempts Avoidance of Antennagate 2 with New Patent
Antennagate sure was a mess, wasn't it? Maybe 'mess' is the wrong word. All things considered, it was pretty tidy...
The Price of Creativity: How Designers are Being Cheapened By the Internet
There is a bit of a conundrum going on in the creative professional community. The problem? The Internet is seemingly...
Ancient Greek Technological Marvels are Child’s Play… Literally!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk Those ancient Greeks think they're so great, developing an astonishingly-accurate mechanism for predicting astrological events over 2000 years ago....