Talk to Me, Fridge

A world in which humans communicate with household objects—partly to better the environment—is closer than you think
by Drew Lanza

Imagine a world where our things could talk back, where exchanges such as the following are the norm.
Sprinkler: Hey, horticultural genius! Did you realize you’re using 20% more water in your garden than last year? [...]

Audio Visual Experiments

IMMERSION Night 1

Music tech to tickle you in 2008

Music tech to tickle you in 2008
Guitars, like gadgets, bring out the child in you. Although it’s unlikely you’d smash your phone onstage in front of thousands of people. Then set fire to it.
Thankfully there was none of that behaviour at the recent London International Music Show, just a lot of cool music tech.

Vox’s JamVOX [...]

Singing Tesla Coils

Singing Tesla Coils - ArcAttack - Creepy Circus Song

iBar first entertainment venue to use Surface

Microsoft and Harrah’s Operating Company on Wednesday announced the first deployment of the former company’s surface technology at the iBar in the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. The move represents the first official setup located in an entertainment scenario, having already been deployed at AT&T stores as interactive product demonstration centers. The Surfaces include a [...]

Wii Baton Test with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony


Intel launches visual content, game site

Intel launches visual content, game site
Posted by Brooke Crothers
Intel has launched a Web site to help game and visual content developers create software for its graphics silicon and processors. Intel’s next-generation Larrabee graphics chip is also slated to become part of the focus.
“Supporting the new Intel 4 Series chipset family introduced at [...]

Wearable tactile display

We interact in the real, physical world in many different ways like seeing (visual), hearing (audio), taste, smell (olfaction) and touch (tactile).
Our interaction with the virtual world is comparatively limited mostly to visual and audio and in some cases tactile like some video game controller.
A Wearable Tactile Display could add the touch dimension to the [...]

acoustical signal across the human neural cortex

Electronics & Robotics - News & Press

Blog of Fausto Intilla,inventor & scientific popularizer
A method for creating sensory experiences operates by scanning the acoustical signal across the human neural cortex to create the desired sensory perceptions. The acoustic signal is scanned in a predetermined pattern. The pattern is then modified to fill in spaces [...]

What is next in Media

Neil Perkin has posted an excellent presentation on where media is today and where he sees it heading.