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A Day Made of Glass 2

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:58:00 +0000

In this sequel to A Day Made of Glass, Corning presents an "expanded vision for the future of glass technologies":

Cryoscope

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:56:00 +0000

Robb Godshaw's Cryoscope is "a haptic weather forecasting device". In other words, it lets you feel tomorrow's weather!

[via OhGizmo!]

Collapsing Cooling Towers

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:54:00 +0000

Ecotricity attempts to persuade Britain to "dump the big six" and move towards clean forms of power like wind, solar, wave and green gas with this cutesy video:

[via Laughing Squid]

Minimalist Gramophone

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:20:59 +0000

Livia Ritthaler's Minimalist Gramophone consists of nothing more than a needle, a paper cone, a plate and a stick. Nice! But there's a catch. Since there's no power mechanism, you have to operate it by hand.

[via OhGizmo!]

Nervous Structure

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:07:47 +0000

An awesome interactive art installation from Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza:

PressPausePlay

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:56:00 +0000

"Does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out?" PressPausePlay - a documentary containing interviews with some of the world's most influential digital creators - finds out:

Disneyland 1957

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:31:39 +0000

Previously unseen footage of Disneyland from 1957 (that is, before the park was even two years old):

Robot readable world

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:25:33 +0000

A compilation of machine-vision footage that shows how robots see the world (and gather meaning from it):

Deluge

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:10:17 +0000

300,000 Norwegians move house every year. Deluge maps data extracted from citizens' tax records to unlock the relocation patterns that lie within:

Kitchen Synthesizer

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:23:12 +0000

Finding himself at a loose end one day, composer Stephen J. Anderson decided to turn his kitchen into an electronic musical instrument:

PRIME

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:14:13 +0000

The latest installment in Ben Wu and David Usui's This Must Be The Place documentary series examines the employees of The Primeburger - a famous burger joint in NYC that opened in 1938 and "hasn't been altered since the early '60s":

Lullaby Crocodile

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:29 +0000

No-Domain created this charming stop motion video for a song performed by three children - Micaela, Agustina and Valodia León:

Kissenger

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:35:20 +0000

Kissenger kiss messengers provide a novel way of transferring a kiss across the internet:

focus on the user

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:26:02 +0000

focus on the user is a proof-of-concept tool built by engineers at Facebook, Twitter and MySpace that shows how Google sacrifices relevance for Google+ promotion:

[via waxy.org]

USMA

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:01:59 +0000

USMA is "a clock without a visual interface, resorting only to sound to mark the passage of time":