Touch the music with Noisy Jelly!
Noisy jelly is a game where the player has to cook and shape his own musical material, based on coloured jelly. With this noisy chemistry lab, the gamer will create his own jelly with water and a few grams of agar agar powder. After added different color, the mix is then pour in the molds....
Fashioning technology
In the last few years, More and more designers are exploring the best ways for coupling fashion and technology in their fashion collections or technological creations. LEDs, conductive threads, special fabrics become the new matter of a futuristic style made of electrons and fabric fibres. Hussein Chalayan, British/Turkish Cypriot fashion designer, is the most vanguardists...
Your jacket as an alcohol test…
Do you think you’ve drunk too much? “Breathalyzer Jacket” is there to help detect your blood alcohol level and let you feel safe to drive! Just blow into the alcohol sensor located in the collar of your coat and watch the LEDs light up on your sleeve, indicating your drunkenness level. This curious project was...
Remote controlled guitars
Check out this sound/interactive design project created with Arduino by Calum Scott. “Guitar Glitch” is composed by 3 classical guitars mechanically actuated by a series of solenoids and dc motors…a little bit disquieting, but anyway, original!
What’s exactly this Arduino?
Here you are a documentary released by the inventors of the most famous worldwide used prototyping platform: Arduino. You may have already heard something about it and its potentials as an open-source device used by engineers, artists, sound designers, interaction designers and generally whoever wants to build the interactive device he always dreamt about…Check out...
Ironic Radio
Touching the metal surface of an iron is in itself challenging: is it burning? And then, finding out that behind such a classic home appliance there is nothing but….a radio. Knobs and holes become the ‘control panel’ of radiofrequencies, making the interaction surprising for this unusual interplay between common and uncommon, feasible and unfeasible. “Ironic...
Want some happiness?
Are you in a very bad mood or in a blue period of your life and need to smile more, especially in public spaces? Lauren McCarthy, artist, designer and programmer, invented a funny way to achieve this. The Happiness Hat is a wearable device part of a series of “Tools for Improved Social Interacting” able...
