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The Sad Demise of IBM’s Awesome Fold Out Keyboard

Sometimes even the most thoughtful designs and engineering feats are preordained to fail. Such is the case with IBM’s Butterfly Keyboard (aka the TrackWrite), an ingenious solution to what turned out to be a temporary problem. The year is 1995. Terms like “ultraportable” and “small footprint” are becoming a fixed part of compu-jargon, and computer…

Tech News Bryan Gardiner Jan 14

Somebody Tell Ebert That Video Games Are Now Art

Roger Ebert may not think highly of video games as art, but MoMA does. The latest installation at their MoMA PS1 gallery is playable video game, which lets you run through a 16-bit Communist China landscape as a Red Army soldier. Created by Chinese artist Feng Mengbo, Long March: Restart is a side-scrolling brawler where…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 7

The Evolution of the Modern Kitchen (It’s Intelligent Design)

This collapsible solar cooker from 1970 is just one piece from the Museum of Modern Art‘s new exhibit, Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, a whirlwind trip through the evolution of the modern kitchen. Thank you, WWII and electricity. A miraculous little history captured in a single room, it features everything from propaganda posters…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 20

MoMA iPhone App Puts a Museum in Your Pocket

The Museum of Modern Art in NYC is one of the best museums in the world, but it can be a little overwhelming. But the new MoMA iPhone app should make visiting a more manageable experience. The free app contains pretty much everything you’d want to know about the museum, from floor plans to schedules…

Tech News Adam Frucci Aug 16

Skype—As Seen Through the Imagined 1960s Mad Men Advertising Looking-Glass

Trying their hand at conjuring up vintage advertising for Facebook, YouTube and Skype, Brazilian advertising firm Moma created these ads for newspaper Meio & Mensagem. Don Draper could only dream of their marketing power. [AdsOfTheWorld via Urlesque via Gawker] http://gawker.com/5605825/what-if-mad-mens-don-draper-designed-facebook-ads

Social Media Kat Hannaford Aug 6

Longest Pinhole Exposure Ever Is Also Most Beautiful

I love pinhole photography. The fact that people will take a gamble on a piece of film for months—or even years—strikes me as almost romantic, like a time capsule. This longest-ever exposure shows 34months of New York life. https://gizmodo.com/six-month-long-camera-exposure-shows-both-winter-and-su-5332962 It was captured by the German artist Michael Wesely, who worked with New York’s Museum of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jul 29

The Day @ Became a Celebrated Work of Art

Next time you send an email, take a moment to ponder the simple beauty of the address field. No, not the name. Who cares who you’re sending emails to. I certainly don’t. No, the @ symbol. It’s artwork now! And famous artwork at that, thanks to its admission into the prestigious architecture and design collection…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 21

Tim Burton Pours Out His Brain At The Moma Exhibit

Take a peek into Tim Burton‘s Museum of Modern Art exhibit and watch little robots do his bidding. Then listen to Burton talk about bringing his art to life, and why his stripey socks keep his brain from floating away. Here’s a collection of some of the images: For more images see New York Magazine…

Movies Meredith Woerner Nov 17

MoMA Fall Preview: Buy Pricey Overdesigned Stuff, Support Art

Some of it’s new, some of it’s not so new, but it’s all modern and paying to get it from the Museum of Modern Art means art and design won’t be crushed into oblivion forever, or something like that. Here’s some of the more interesting stuff MoMa is hawking this fall on their website and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 1

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…

Tech News Sean Fallon May 28

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…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 8

Curator Forced to Kill Out-of-Control Bio-Art Exhibit

Click to view The problem with bio-art is that it’s often made of living tissue — and sometimes living tissue gets out of control. That’s what happened late last week at a New York MoMA exhibit called “Design and the Elastic Mind,” where a tiny living jacket made out of stem cells had to be…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 5

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. She’s making artsy glass…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Mar 5

The Art of Monitoring New York City’s Telephone Conversations

You can gage how busy New York City is by looking at all the people swarming in the streets, or by smelling the giant piles of trash they’ve left at the curbs. But there are ways to take stock of the city’s populace that are far more revealing. For a new MoMa exhibit this month,…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Feb 21

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…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Feb 20

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…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Feb 5

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…

Tech News AddyDugdale Nov 19

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…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Jun 22

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…

Gadgets Brian Lam Mar 22

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…

Physics & Chemistry Travis Hudson Mar 16

The Sad Demise of IBM’s Awesome Fold Out Keyboard

Somebody Tell Ebert That Video Games Are Now Art

The Evolution of the Modern Kitchen (It’s Intelligent Design)

MoMA iPhone App Puts a Museum in Your Pocket

Skype—As Seen Through the Imagined 1960s Mad Men Advertising Looking-Glass

Longest Pinhole Exposure Ever Is Also Most Beautiful

The Day @ Became a Celebrated Work of Art

Tim Burton Pours Out His Brain At The Moma Exhibit

MoMA Fall Preview: Buy Pricey Overdesigned Stuff, Support Art

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

Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab

Curator Forced to Kill Out-of-Control Bio-Art Exhibit

No Health Insurance? Get Your Terminal Illness Diagnosed By Bees

The Art of Monitoring New York City’s Telephone Conversations

WizKid Device Stretches its Neck to be Friends With You

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

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

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

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

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

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