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Tech NewsWould a Bottle of Milk Still Go Off in an Igloo Made From 322 Fridges?
It’s a clichéd message, sure, but you’ve got to give Germany artist Ralf Schmerberg props for collecting 322 fridges to create this igloo. An attached electrical meter displays the energy waste to passersby, who can even pop inside. Inside, there’s a collection of all sorts of gadgetry—toasters, TVs, fans and for some reason an inflatable … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Tate Modern’s New Art Installation: 100 Million Hand-Painted Sunflower Seeds
The Tate Modern has housed some strange art—huge curving slides, a massive artificial sun, and a giant spider, to name a few. But its new installation is the strangest yet: a mind-boggling carpet of 100 million sunflower seeds. The seeds, installed by Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei, come as the eleventh commission in the Tate … Continued
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Tech News
Call This Urban Speaker Tomorrow and Broadcast Yourself to New York City
This is the Urban Speaker: a smartphone attached to a loud speaker attached to a traffic sign. Tomorrow, when it goes live in NYC, you’ll be able to call it up and announce whatever’s on your mind. I smell mischief! Is your refrigerator running? Yes… Then you better go catch it! That’s funny when you … Continued
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What Are All These Binder Clips Holding Together?
There’s something going down at this New York art gallery—something involving five thousand custom panels held together by an Office Depot’s worth of binder clips. I’ll say this much: the inside’s a lot more colorful than the outside: That’s right, all those clips are holding together your standard issue technicolor wormhole—an installation at the bridgegallery … Continued
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ScienceHealth
GE’s Visible You Is Kinect For Your Skeleton
With everyone hemming and hawing about airport scanners being a huge invasion of privacy, GE decided to put the fun back in showing your guts to the world. Their interactive Visible You installation lets you see your insides in action. OK, they’re not necessarily your insides—the display shows detailed models, one for men and one … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsStep Into a World Made Entirely of Books
In an open room in the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, amidst plain white walls, a vertiginous tower stretches to the ceiling. From a distance, it appears to be made of thin multicolor bricks. They’re actually thousands of books: The book tunnel is an installation called Scanner, by Slovakian artist Matej Krén, intended to … Continued
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Tech NewsListen To Goldfish Swim in Five Part Harmony
You might think that these goldfish have it pretty good, each luxuriating in its own personal tank. But they’re actually hard at work making music. Quintetto, an installation by creative studio Quiet Ensemble, uses video cameras to turn the movements of the five fish into a fabric of ambient music. I prefer these guys to … Continued
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OLED Mirrorwall Now Available From Philips—At $16,000 Per Square Meter
Hey magpie-eyes, instead of saving up for a 3D TV why don’t you cash in your prized teaspoon collection and spunk $16,000 down on a square meter of Philips’ Mirrorwall, which uses dozens of OLED panels to reflect motion. Some may say it’s just a fancy mirror, and while they’re kinda right, does your mirror … Continued
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Thought-Controlled Computing Will Light Up Vancouver Olympics
Figure skating? Please. The main attraction for many visitors to the Winter Olympics will be an installation letting them control the lights at Niagara Falls with their minds. That’s right: we’re all telekinetics now. Of course, anything seemingly this amazing requires some hedging. The Bright Ideas installation by Toronto-based company InteraXon doesn’t let you decide … Continued
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Dematerialize Yourself
A current exhibition in London gives you the feeling of stepping into a teleportation beam. Artist and film-maker Anthony McCall fills a room with dry ice, then two projectors beam a Quicktime video of moving cones of light into the haze. Thanks to the artificial smoke, the cones appear solid and it looks as though … Continued
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