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A Music-Making Interface That Riffs On The Rubik’s Cube
For most of the history of musical instruments, form followed function. Be it a trumpet or a tambourine, the objects themselves were shaped first and foremost to create a certain quality of sound. But in the MIDI era, when digital samples can reproduce the sound of any instrument at the press of a button, there’s no reason to stay so traditional. Show More Summary
Haagen Dazs Turns To A Design Studio To Reinvent The Ice Cream Bar
Ice cream is an indulgence when you’re sitting on a sofa in sweat pants eating it with a spoon straight out of the pint container, but the treat can be so, so much more decadent. When Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien of London-based office...Show More Summary
A 340-Ton Boulder Makes A 105-Mile Journey To Los Angeles
If you follow the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Twitter, your timeline in mid-March was positively chockablock with enthusiastic 140-character sightings of a really big rock traveling on the back of a really big vehicle through the city’s streets. Show More Summary
A Concept Airline Eases The Pain Of Traveling With Toddlers
It’s hard to know what’s worse: being a business traveler subjected to other passengers’ messy, wailing kids, or being a parent of same, enduring the hostilities and indignities of traveling with young children. In September, AirAsia...Show More Summary
Watch: 14 Acoustic Guitars, Plucked By A Computer
300 meters of cabling floats tangled in the air. Its wiry tentacles reach down to 14 acoustic guitars. And suddenly…music. This is Playa, a project by Ruben Dhers. It’s an Arduino processor connected, via all that wiring, to a small group of guitars just lying there on the ground. Show More Summary
For Prada’s Steampunk Collection, Surreal Ads By Koolhaas’s Firm
When Prada debuted their Winter/Fall 2013 collection, back in January, they sent actors like Willem Dafoe and Adrien Brody down the runway clad in long overcoats with 19th century details coupled a retro-futuristic '60s vibe. “Clothing is a tool of power and a way to express male vanity,” said Miuccia backstage. Show More Summary
Kinetic Sculptures Paint Ghostly Phrases, Using Light And Magnifying Glasses
“A lot of engineers are frustrated artists,” says Australian artist Ian Burns. “And a lot of artists are frustrated engineers.” Speaking on tape about his mechanical sculptures, he seems to be a mix of both.
At the most basic level, Burns builds machines. Show More Summary
An Audio History of A Song So Ubiquitous, It Rivals Happy Birthday
Located on a shady sliver of land at the tip of Manhattan, the Museum of Jewish Heritage has a quiet, dignified air to it. The mission of the museum, which opened in 1997, is to “educate about the broad tapestry of Jewish life in the...Show More Summary
Playing Now: A Stunning Production Of A Philip Glass Masterpiece
There’s probably no piece of modern music or dance that ignites as much excitement as Einstein on the Beach, Philip Glass’ epic 1975 opera. There are a few explanations as to why. For one thing, Einstein has only been staged a handful of times since it was written. Show More Summary
Creepy Video Game Lets You Explore Its Maker’s Memories
Humans have come up with a lot of ways to explore our consciousness--you’ve got drugs, great works of art, psychoanalysis, and reality TV recaps, to name a few--but Alan Kwan, a recent graduate at the City University School of Creative Media in Hong Kong, has come up with another: the Xbox 360 controller. Show More Summary
A Digital Artist Combines Ghostly Light Shows And Beatboxing
Some of us know Cuban singer Omara Portuondo as a national legend, others know her as the beautiful singer in Wim Wenders’ Buena Vista Social Club. For the next month, Portuondo can be heard at the New York digital art gallery Bitforms, though not in song. Show More Summary
Shaped By Algorithms, A Solar Powered Pavilion That Soaks Up Maximum Rays
The Endesa Pavilion, also referred to as the Solar House 2.0, sits just off the water at the Olimpic Port in Barcelona. Its jagged facade would be striking in any environment, but the structure wouldn’t really make sense anywhere else. Show More Summary
Will Apple’s Pinch-To-Zoom Patent Victory Create A Usability Hell?
Pinching to zoom on touch-screen devices is such a common gesture today that it’s hard to believe Steve Jobs wowed audience members (who actually cheered and applauded for close to 20 seconds) when he first stretched his fingers against the iPhone’s glass face. Show More Summary
Attention, Clean Freaks: Here Is A Keyboard You Can Wash
Your laptop’s keyboard bears the brunt of all your bad habits. Crumbs, ashes, hair--according to a friend who works at the Apple store, all that and more has been extracted from beneath their customers’ keyboards (even, in one case,Show More Summary
A Screw Top That Turns A Mason Jar Into A Cocktail Shaker
Rustic modern is a style on the rise. Amateur mixologists are everywhere. The most surprising thing about the Mason Shaker--yup, a straightforward mason jar with a shaker instead of a lid--isn’t that it exists; it’s that it took this darn long. Show More Summary
Infographic: 160 Years Of Hurricanes Form One Giant Hurricane!
We follow our tropical storms like big game hunters on safari, watching as these monsters wake and go on a rampage, close enough to document every single detail, but far enough, hopefully, to never get caught in their path.
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A Spreadsheet App For iPads That Makes Number-Crunching A Treat
IPads are capable of doing wonderful things. For example, they can entertain cats. They can stream Netflix. And they let us read Game of Thrones in relative secrecy. In other words, they’re great for passive entertainment. But when it comes to work-related tasks, like data entry, Apple’s tablet tends to fall short of the average laptop. Show More Summary
Fearful Symmetry
Tomorrow I go into the Tate Modern to install my new interactive work that has been a year in the making. That among other things is the reason this blog has been so quiet in recent times but I thought I’d post something for those who are still subscribed to this blog. Its certainly time [...]
A 3-D Printing Lab That Fits Into A Suitcase
"Our dream is to empower yours.” In any other context, the message printed on Ilan Moyer’s business card would read as cliché. But in Moyer’s case, it’s simply the truth. The recent MIT graduate is the founder of “personal fabrication”...Show More Summary
A Portable Beach House, Built On Sleds
In the classic 1966 movie The Endless Summer, two surfers “chase summer” from hemisphere to hemisphere as the seasons change. The movie inspired a generation of surfers--and appears to have inspired a few architects, too.
On the shores...Show More Summary
