Tag: Technology
The nicer your phone is, the more likely you are to drop and damage it. It’s pretty much a fact by this point. If you’re an iPhone fan, though, you might have less problems with cracked screens in your future. Apple has filed a patent for a “Protective Mechanism for an Electronic Device” that, should […]
Control Group, a design company hired by the MTA, is trying to bring the future to the New York City subway system by unveiling their touch-screen subway maps. It’s like Google Maps on steroids. Touch where you want to go, and the screen will give you ways to get there, factoring in weather, seasons, delays […]
A team at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland has presented a second version of their previous amphibious robot, titled Salamandra robotica. Behold, Salamandra robotica II. While comparing the two, you can see that the new Salamandra now tucks its “feet” in when swimming, and also reacts to the transition between water and land […]
Brooklyn-based technologist Matt Richardson created this badass dynamic bike headlight, which detects the speed at which you’re riding and projects it onto the street in front of you. In the above video, Richardson explains how he made the device, whipping it together using a speed sensor mounted on the front wheel, a single-board computer called […]
While Lena Dunham and piggie poop balls sat around wearing Google Glass and discussing the merits of 3D-printing your own Beyonce, these three drones danced a sad, sad “Harlem Shake” in some empty lot at SXSW. This is what we’ve created, people. […]
The options for visualizing sound are manifold, but there’s something appealing about the analog physicality of this piece from Italian art collective CaCO3. The work, entitled 80 mesh – la forma del suono (the shape of sound), uses three metal plates covered in fine sand, onto which the frequencies from three vintage electronic instruments called Ondes Martenots are […]
Bitcoins are the next best thing to using cash on the internet: totally anonymous and tied to no central bank, the digital currency allows for peer-to-peer transactions across the web without the possibility of being identified. In the past, uses for Bitcoins have been somewhat limited: web properties like WordPress and Reddit accept it as […]
Months after Hurricane Sandy, New York City is steadily moving towards rebuilding the areas that were most heavily damaged, including the beaches of Coney Island, Staten Island, and the Rockaways. As a part of that process, it’s enlisted the help of Garrison Architects to design and build new flood-resistant, modular, ultra-efficient structures that can function […]
The Image Toaster from German designer and engineer Scott van Haastrecht searches Google Images for a random picture related to the current date, then “prints” it onto a 6×6 pixel grid on a piece of toast. Finally! Today’s toast might feature a crude rendering of Barbara Streisand, for example, or the seal of the Department of […]
Vine is a pretty amazing platform, but its youth still shows: though plenty of filmmakers, comedians, and various other content-creators are populating the social network with great six-second clips, its unrefined exploratory tools can make finding the good stuff difficult. That’s where ANIMAL comes in. We’ve spent a lot of time with Vine, and along […]
