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MapEnvelop
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MapEnvelop by beste miray dogan. Post it from the exact place.

Clockwork Love by Tjep
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"Inspired by the earlier Bling Bling medallion, artist Tjep layers the wheels and gears of clockwork to form the hearts that make up a new series of pendants and timepieces."

Clockwork Love builds further on the Bling Bling pendant designed by Tjep. for Chi Ha Paura...? Launched in 2002, it was constructed from several layers of overlapping logos. Clockwork Love is a jewelry collection evenly and consistently combining a great multitude of graphic elements in a multitude of layers. The main body of this collection presented in Gallery Ra in Amsterdam consists of 6 timepieces expressing different 'heart moods' through the liberal use of symbolic references, the collection of pendants link up to such themes as fragility, passion, uncertainty and desire.
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Veasyble
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VEASYBLE is a project by four lovely italian ladies.

Slant-ruled notebook
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A lot of people sort of twist their notebooks when they write in them, this Slant-ruled notebook by Matt Brown, which has lines that are at a 45 degree angle- good if you have to write in a tight spot, like on an airplane.

Foldable Bird House
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Foldable water-repellant cardboard birdhouse($4) ships packed flat in a paper envelope.
10" tall with a hole size that will accomodate a variety of bird types.
Perch included.
A good idea?
Price: $4   |   BUY

The Largest Disco Ball by Michel de Broin
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Nuit Blanche, City of Paris Mirror ball, 1000 mirrors, 7.5 meters in diameter. "La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel" is the title of an installation by Michel de Broin.
The spectacular view of the starry sky has long been a source of delight and curiosity, but the abundance of artificial light in urban areas produces a glow that covers the stars in the firmament. The largest mirror ball ever made was suspended from a construction crane 50 meters above the ground to render the starry sky to the citizens of Paris for one night in the Jardin du Luxembourg during the Nuit Blanche event

Sleep Suit
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Sleep Suit designed by Forrest Jessee. The suit acts as a transportable and adjustable cocoon that allows for constant air flow in a variety of different positions and environments. The sleep suit provides for a sound 30 minute nap.
The project attempts to challenge the idea of personal space in relationship to the human body and its surrounding environment. It is inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s practice of Dymaxion Sleeping, which involves four 30-minute naps over a period of 24 hours, and the material requirements for such conditions.
Architecturally, the very close relationship between the human body and the suit acts as the generator of form as well as tool to negotiate between the occupant and his or her surroundings. The structure of the material, a structural pleat, is used as a means to create feelings of connected and disconnectedness as well as provide varying levels of support for different parts of the body. By thinking of the cut pattern as sections of the body, the structure can act as a semi-permeable outer skin.
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Life-Size Boat Model Kit
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Swedish artist Michael Johansson has made a life-size dinghy "model kit" from a real boat and related equipment, called TOYS'R'US. Boat and related equipment are joined together in a welded metal frame, and painted a uniform gray to resemble the surface of a model kit. "The real boat is transformed into a model of itself, and its original purpose has given way to something else. "

Pong Prom
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Pong Prom developed by Ed Keeble. It transforms the body into an interface to control the game of pong. Player don specially-designed hoodies and engage in a game of Pong by slow dancing with each other. It has an accelerometer attached at the back of the neck provides control of the game. You have to Rock back and forth moves the game paddle left and right.  An LED display on the front lets you see how the game is going.
"The project uses the Lilypad Arduino platform to control game play, run the display, and communicate between devices. Patches of conductive fabric on the shoulders, hips, and cuffs of the shirts are used to create a serial connection between the Arduinos. An accelerometer attached at the back of the neck allows each player to control their game paddle by rocking their partner back and forth."
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A Parallel Image
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A Parallel Image is an electronic camera obscura, by Gebhard Sengmüller, in collaboration with Franz Büchinger, supported by Fels-Multiprint. It is an interactive sculpture which can capture and display images. On one side is a camera made of 2500 photo senser which are mounted on a 1 by 1 meter board. On the other side there is the monitor with 2500 light bulbs to display to image. In between each sensor and light bulb there is a 3 meter long copper wire.
“A Parallel Image” is an electronic camera obscura. This media-archaeological, interactive sculpture is based on the fictive assumption that the currently still valid principle of electronically transmitting moving images, namely by breaking them down into single images and image lines, was never discovered. The result is an apparatus that attempts a highly elaborate parallel transmission of every single pixel from sender to receiver. This is only possible by connecting camera and monitor using about 2,500 cables. Unlike conventional electronic image transmission procedures, “A Parallel Image” is technologically completely transparent, conveying to the viewer a correspondence between real world and transmission that can be sensually experienced.
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Mouse Assisted Interplay
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Mouse Assisted Interplay is an imagined-online-dating service, where people meet and interact via their pet mouse. By Vanessa Harden.
A wearable tube-like habitat permits the owner to bring their mouse to dates or events. The social artefacts embedded in this garment serve two purposes. Firstly they allow the owner to interact with their pet through touch and sight. And secondly, they promote the interaction between mice and between users.
Inspired by The Mouse Fanciers, an existing subculture that breeds and shows prize winning rodents, this piece draws on current dating trends existing today such as internet dating or speed dating. Mouse Assisted Interplay imagines a dating service where individuals meet and interact via their pet mouse, drawing on similar situations that currently exist amongst dog owners in parks.
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Rollator
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Looking like a treadmill on wheels, the Rollator uses a special gear drive system to multiply your walking efforts and increase your pace. Designed by Oooms.
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Kiwi & Pom Party Box
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Plus the Party Box into your PC, turning your computer(laptop) into a home karaoke machine. Look Cool. I love its red microphone.
"Lucky Voice is an up market Karaoke venue which caters for private groups and parties. Following the success of the brand, Lucky Voice has ventured online. The 'Party Box' is a microphone mixer which plugs into your PC, turning a computer into the ultimate karaoke machine. KIWI&POM are also developing other new exciting concepts in partnership with Lucky Voice.
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Scan Processor Studies
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The Scan Processor Studies are a collection of works by Woody Vasulka & Brian O'Reilly. Amazing video from Scan Processor!!
"The full work is of total approximate duration of 45 minutes, with sections of various lengths, textures, and dynamic qualities.
The project first started while Woody and I were working on different commissioned projects at the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe Germany). He and Steina on the exhibition MINDFRAMES and Garth Knox and myself on the DVD and performance SPECTRAL STRANDS: FOR VIOLA AND VISUALS. Woody, Steina, Garth and I spent many nights screening works for moving images, playing music, and cooking, enveloped in the huge ghost town mood the ZKM's kitchen took on at night. During this time there were passionate discussions about video synthesizers (mainly my love for the Sandin Image Processor), and how Steina's VIOLIN POWER had a huge influence on Garth's and my new series of works.
The source materials were generated by Woody using a Rutt-Etra Scan Processor in the 1970's and sat on a shelf for years, having been recently digitized. Woody came into my studio one day and asked me if I would be interested in using them to work on a collaboration, and the project began from there...
The works use sources excavated directly from the output of the Scan Processor, as well as further manipulations using Tom Demeyer's ImX software, developed with input from Steina. Extensive editing and layering and additional augmentations were done using Phil Mortons IP. The Sound was generated (mostly) by custom software developed by Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan and myself called NETHER GENERATOR, which sets up a number of complex real time feedback networks filtered and processed by various means.
SCAN PROCESSOR STUDIES was first exhibited as an installation in the ZKM's MINDFRAMES exhibition.

The Eyewriter
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The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people, who are suffering from ALS, with creative technologies.
Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The Ebeling Group communities have teamed-up with a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist, named Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE. Tony was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes. This international team is working together to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes.
"It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes. "
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