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gaming

Dining Table Recreates Pong With 2,400 LEDs and 2 Trackpads

The game that started a phenomenon in the 70's is back (albeit in slightly different form) thanks to the design work of one Moritz Waldemeyer. This new version takes the classic game and embeds it into a fairly plain looking dining table using 2400 LEDs and 2 trackpads. When the table is on, the trackpads allow users to take full control of the paddles. When the table is off, the game completely disappears. More »

7:30 PM on Wed May 28 2008
By Sean Fallon
7,638 views, 32 comments

Latest by merebito: Not Ergonomic! My Back hurts just looking at that table more »

science

Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab

In one of the odder stories we've spotted in some time, an installation called "Victimless Leather" was on display at NY's MoMA. The piece was actually a living jacket crafted from mouse embryonic stem cells, fed nutrients through tubes. But after five weeks, it grew too large for its containment flask and had to be killed. More »

11:30 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Mark Wilson
22,542 views, 82 comments

Latest by Eltigro: This story is made of pure WTF! more »

medicine

No Health Insurance? Get Your Terminal Illness Diagnosed By Bees

If you were concerned that you had cancer, would you go to see a doctor or would you consult some bees? I bet you said doctor, didn't you? No fun! If you used one of Susana Soares "alternative diagnosis tools" you'd be relying on bees instead for some goddamned insane reason. More »

4:15 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Adam Frucci
15,204 views, 60 comments

Latest by whynotbeeasy: I don't know about a bee bong. but, a normal bong for sure. I could see it working. more »

art

WizKid Device Stretches its Neck to be Friends With You

Wizkid is a technological artwork exploring the human-machine interface, a bit like the eerie-eyeball OptoIsolator or the Mind Chair. Programmed to notice you walking nearby, it homes in on your face, stretching and twisting its neck to point its screen at you. With a bunch of gestures you can tell it to play games or browse information pages, and it even anticipates your desires—perhaps by slipping on some freeform jazz fusion when you walk in the door (hopefully, without then trying to seduce you). Intrigued? There's more info below the gallery. More »

7:33 AM on Wed Feb 20 2008
By Kit Eaton
1,597 views, 7 comments

Latest by Abnormal: Johnny 5 is alive! more »

sensory substitution

The Mind Chair Transmits Moving Images to the Brain Via the Skin's Nerves

I got rather excited when I saw this, thinking that J and I could take it in turns to be Death Row prisoners on a Sunday evening, but apparently it's not an electric chair. It is, my little bunnies, the Mind Chair, which uses sensory substitution techniques to allow the sitter to perceive moving images in their brain via nerves in the skin. Wowzers—more info below the gallery. More »

7:19 AM on Tue Feb 5 2008
By AddyDugdale
6,434 views, 25 comments

Latest by Pi-face: This brings descriptions of LSD to the mind. I CAN FEEL THE COLORS more »

spiderman architecture

75-Story Skyscraper Will House Overflow for New York's MoMA

Jean Nouvel unveiled his design for The Tower at 53rd West 53rd Street this weekend. As well as the now-obligatory apartments and seven-star swank-hotel, the 75-story glass-and-steel structure will have three floors dedicated to housing the overflow collection of the neighboring MoMA. Check the gallery below to see what the skyscraper, whose construction is expected to begin some time next year, is expected to look like.

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5:24 AM on Mon Nov 19 2007
By AddyDugdale
11,480 views, 12 comments

Latest by auroragb: @gokor: Erm you don't know that much about NY skyline. 75 story building doesn't standout that much around here. more »

low tech solutions

Modern Art Nutcracker: Simple and Well, That's About It

The Nusskubus nutcracker, uh, system is a set of beechwood cubes with a a variety of hollows for cracking nuts of myriad sizes. After setting your desired nut in the appropriate spot, smash the other cube into it and you're ready to go. Or you could save $35, be a man and just use your fist. More »

9:50 AM on Fri Jun 22 2007
By Matt Buchanan
1,094 views, 5 comments

Latest by willyolio: [veryfunnyads.com] more »

gadgets

3D Doodle Kit and Glasses (The Red and Blue Kind)

I'm the only Chinese guy I know who can't draw, but maybe you can. And maybe you can put this 3D sketch kit, which includes a pair of glasses and locked red and blue pencils. The 2005 kit just went for sale at the NY/Online MOMA store. Then again for 7 bucks, maybe I should pick one up to turn my scraggly 2D stick figures into stereographic ones.–Brian Lam More »

9:37 PM on Thu Mar 22 2007
By Brian Lam
2,995 views, 10 comments

Latest by Chef: yeah - where'd that come from? Do you just happen to know craploads of Chinese artists? more »

gadgets

If this Perpetual Calendar is Rockin, Don't Come Knockin'

This one goes out to all of my physicists out there. Yeah, you know who you are. I think it is time to ditch your lame desk calendar for something a little more physic-y. I don't have the slightest clue how this calendar actually works, but there are some magnetic balls that mark off the month and day of the week with a little black magic. Wait, how does it know when it is a leap year? $38. –Travis Hudson More »

1:45 PM on Fri Mar 16 2007
By Travis Hudson
3,369 views, 23 comments

Latest by HiroNakamura: Can't they just put a clock in it, and make it wind a cord with the hour hand? The other more »

gadgets

24 Time Zone Barrel Desk Clock

For most, figuring out what time it is in other parts of the country requires simple addition or subtraction, but once you start jumping over the pond and trying to figure out the time in far off countries, it can be a pain in the ass. The 24 Time Zone Barrel Clock can solve that problem. Rotate the barrel to your desired time zone and the clock will reflect that time. Roll it back to your current time zone after finished to ensure you don't miss Heroes tonight. $74 from the MoMA store. –Travis Hudson More »

11:30 AM on Mon Feb 26 2007
By Travis Hudson
2,194 views, 28 comments

Latest by Ben Zvan: @JosephRaymond and hezz Yes, there's a link to it in the comment 3-4 before yours. more »