The “Light Barrier” installation by Kimichi and Chips demonstrated at the New Media Night Festival in Russia creates ethereal 3D objects using millions of crossed light beams. …
Lily Cole’s Veja Shoes Help Save the Rainforest, and your Ankles from a Lifetime of Boredom
English model, actress, and Sky Rainforest Rescue ambassador Lily Cole has recently collaborated with the French accessory brand Veja in an effort to combine sustainable fashion with Amazonia preserva…
SPARK Device turns your Jam Session into Clean Energy
Percussionist Sudha Kheterpal has teamed up with eco-designer Diana Simpson Hernandez to create SPARK – a musical instrument that successfully generates electricity just by playing it.…
Piece by Piece, Elizabeth Brunner Stitches Ethics Back into Fashion
Filling up landfills, creating unfair wages for workers, and significantly contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, fashion isn’t exactly excluded from the consumer driven decline of the environment …
New Smart Cup Vessyl Tracks Your Every Sip
Vessyl is a smart cup that helps you make smarter drink choices by instantly analyzing and tracking the nutritional information of your beverages. …
Binaudio: Capturing the City with Sound
A imaginative interpretation of modern technology, the Binaudio captures the Newcastle, England city soundscape. …
Metaio Thermal Touch: Augmenting the World into a Touchscreen
Augmented reality powerhouse Metaio has now branched out into the realm of tactile content control – on top of a stunning 3D computerized visual overlay, they’ve added the hardware necessary to make w…
Digital Self-reflection: See Yourself through JINS MEME Smart Eyeglasses
Based in Tokyo, eyewear innovator JINS has recently jumped on the wearable tech bandwagon with MEME, their new smart eyeglasses that absorb, synthesize and externalize the user’s inner physiological a…
Step into MKG’s Immersive Infinity Installation to Find Your Social Soulmate
MKG’s Social Soul installation at the TED 2014 conference extracts the concepts and themes that are prevalent through your digital personality and displays it all around you, allowing you to experienc…
The Palm-sized Chemistry Lab that Costs Less than Your Morning Frappucino
Stanford bioengineer Manu Prakash has created a $5 hand-cranked chemistry lab from music box parts that, instead of pricking metal tines to sound different tones, yields precise amounts of designated …
Anne-Marie Slaughter: A Need to Balance Family and Work
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton professor and former Director of the U.S. State Department of Policy Planning, describes a world involving input from both women and men, in which family and work are e…
Fun motivational gadgets to increase your willpower, decrease procrastination, and conserve resources
Research group Experience Design at the Folkwang University of Arts has created several innovative and fun transformational gadgets called “Pleasurable Troublemakers” to help individuals cultivate goo…
Scientists Reveal Stunning Video of a Memory being formed at the Molecular Level
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have recently been able to visually capture a memory being formed at the molecular level as it happens. Using advanced imag…
The Forest Symphony: Sounds of Photosynthesis
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shiro Takatani, and the YCAM Interweb team collaborate in an installation that uses a bioelectric tracking device, interpretive music and visual displays to bring an urban centered w…
Beautiful Thoughts: Water Moves to Artist’s Brainwaves
Artist Lisa Park uses an EEG sensor and computer processing systems to translate her thoughts into sound. The vibrations of the music send the water rippling and jumping according to the state of her …
Japanese Researchers Perfect the Art of Acoustic Levitation
The art of acoustic levitation stems from the ability to control sound vibrations enough to combat gravity. While it’s not exactly a new science, Yoichi Ochiai and his team of researchers at the Unive…
The Power of Empathy: Restoring Humanity through Vulnerability
After a decade of researching, teaching, and writing about the power of vulnerability, Dr. Brené Brown has found that being emotionally vulnerable is the key to feeling more connected, courageous and …
Underwater Power Kites Can Harness 800x More Energy than Airborne Ones
Years of over exploitation of non-renewable resources have accelerated the development of ground-breaking technology for renewable energy. Swedish inventor Magnus Landberg at Minesto has designed a no…
Evena’s Eyes-On Glasses Allow Nurses to See through Skin
Harnessing the power of augmented reality technology, Evena has created the Eyes-On Glasses as a wearable device that allow medical professionals to see through skin. The glasses are a portable, real-…
Neural Lab at UW Demonstrates first Human Brain-to-Brain Communication
Researchers at the Neural Systems Laboratory at the University of Washington are believed to have created the first ever documented and approved human brain-to-brain communication. While it’s not exac…