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Blood Light
Mike Thompson’s Blood Lamp offers users a gory way to explore the issues of power consumption and planned obsolescence. Users break open the vial-like lamp and mix a few ...
Reimagining a Cold War Icon
A group of companies in Germany has announced plans to produce an electric small family sedan with solar panels providing additional power for accessories such as air conditioning. The ...
Creating a Biology of Architecture
Developed by German architects and designers as a tool for evaluating the emotional and physical health effects of buildings, the discipline of Baubiologie traces the relationship between natural building techniques ...
Tabs and Slots
Readymechs are downloadable toy designs you can print and build. Using heavy matte paper and a little bit of tape, visitors can build an army of pirates, cigar-smoking birds, ...
Alternative Alphabets
Golan Levin, working with Jonathan Feinberg and Cassidy Curtis, created the Alphabet Synthesis Machine as a tool for exploring the connection between form, perception, and communication. Users enter ...
Meet the Energy Ball
The spherical Energy Ball, created by Schoondijke-based Home Energy International, relies on the Venturi effect to accelerate wind velocity as air moves through the curved blades of the ...
Interactive Sonic “Blobs”
First presented at the 2004, Milan Furniture Fair, the collaborative, interactive, aural system Sonic Garden uses a cluster of cushy, comforting, vaguely weeble-shaped blobs to invite user participation and ...
Gaming Change
Games for Change (G4C), an ongoing project of management think tank Serious Games Initiative, provides administrative, academic, and technical assistance to nonprofit groups working to use digital games as ...
“We’d Like to Present the Watercone”
Munich-based Stephan Augustin has combined simple design and basic science to create a cheap, easy to use means of securing potable water. The Watercone allows users to pour saline or ...
Inspirational Travel
The design of Portland's Jupiter Hotel uses the complex experience of travel to nurture creativity and interaction. Travel blends personal exploration and openness to experience with anonymity, inviting wayfarers to ...
Reimagining an Addictive Icon
They once graced the dark corners of America. From the crassly functional to quaint stylized relics of the mid-twentieth century, cigarette vending machines offered instant satisfaction to smokers until their numbers dwindled due ...
Collaborative Water Solutions
Following a cross-country trip and a series of works in which she explored the nature of public space, performance artist Betsy Damon realized the importance of social networks in the creation ...