L.E.M.U.R.
I give you… the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots! Starring among others Guitarbot and Tibetbot, LEMUR is a Brooklyn-based group of artists and technologists developing robotic musical instruments. Founded in 2000 by musician and engineer Eric Singer, LEMUR creates exotic, sculptural musical instruments which integrate robotic technology. LEMUR’s philosophy is to build robots […]
L.A.S.E.R. Tag
New from Graffiti Research Labs. Amazing stuff. Click the play button now!
Meet Hektor – the graffiti output device
Hektor is a portable Spray-paint Output Device for laptop computers. It’s brilliantly low-tech and the coolest thing since the gas powered pogo stick.
Machines vs people
Faced with the dreaded task of actually having to go into my local HSBC to deposit some money, I thought I’d leave it until the lunchtime rush was over to avoid the queues. Imagine my surprise when I stepped into the newly renovated branch to find a wall full of machines with confused-looking customers […]
Plenty of Joost
OK, so I shouldn’t be writing headlines (I toyed with ‘Joost in time’ but noticed The Register had beaten me to it). However despite my lack of copy writing skills, I did feel compelled to blog about Joost.
For those of you not familiar with this soon to launched IPTV service, it’s the latest brainchild of […]
Online voting gone wrong
The NHL’s voting for this year’s All-Star game, which was played last weekend, was carried out via unlimited online balloting. Anyone could vote for any player as many times as they wanted, as long as they filled out the entire ballot.
A campaign to ‘Vote for Rory’, a not very spectacular player who normally wouldn’t […]
Flash On The Beach
Flash On The Beach kicked off in Brighton yesterday morning with a keynote from Adobe representative Mike Downey. Entitled “Flash and the Adobe Engagement Platform”, Mike started out by reflecting on developments around Flash in 2006 including among other things: opening of Adobe labs in January, the 10th anniversary of Flash in August, and the […]
Soundbombing
A Sound Bomb works like this. Record a sound. Place the device somewhere. A person walks past, activates the motion sensor and hears the sound. Simple, low–tech and clever. You could record the sound of a howler monkey (the loudest land animal on earth) from Bolivia and place the Sound Bomb in a tree on […]
