art stories
Monday, March 31, 2008 - 11:44am
Despite being inspired by a snail, this keyboard concept, named the Caracol, would be great for amputees and just regular keyboarders alike. It looks a bit like a snail and uses a rotating keywheel. The keywheel has a 5:1...
Monday, March 31, 2008 - 8:47am
Pantech, maker of some pretty innovative phones, recently challenged students at a variety of universities across Korea to design a phone for 2010. Pantech asked and they received, but some of the winning designs look like phones better suited...
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 1:45pm
Touch The Light is an interactive work of art in Osaka, Japan. At the top of the KEPCO building is a large circular lighting fixture. Stationed one kilometer away is a 1/100 scale model of the KEPCO lighting fixture....
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 5:55am
This funny-looking machine is a small battery powered vehicle that motors its way around a New York art gallery. Its course is directed and steered entirely by flies. Yes, that plastic bubble is filled with large houseflies, along with...
Monday, March 24, 2008 - 9:55am
In the name of Fine Art, we present to you a stairway to nowhere. Start walking up this winding, twisting stainless steel staircase and you end up right back where you started. Sculptor Olafur Eliasson thought this artwork, which...
Monday, March 24, 2008 - 9:28am
The Transformer phone is a new concept that won a Tancher Design Award. This phone has nothing to do with Optimus Prime and his crew, but is capable of performing a whole bunch of different tasks. This phone can...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 8:12am
So you have a fancy HDTV, killer speaker system and plenty of game consoles? Think your home-entertainment center is pretty top-notch? Well, then there's not much left to do but slap a big, beautiful frame around your gear to...
- 3D printing
- algae
- art
- bees
- dating
- design
- DNA
- fuel cell
- hives
- honey
- lamp
- Lamps
- light
- lightweeds
- lists
- moma
- research
- sculpture
- weeds
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 3:01pm
What is this woman doing? Why is her head half-submerged in a bubble filled with bees? The bubble is a prototype of an invention that The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) is currently exhibiting called Design...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 1:50pm
When fancy-pants champagne purveyor Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin ordered up an arty vase from the London Institute of Contemporary Art, creator Oscar Diaz took a roundabout route toward showing off the French company’s signature yellow color of its booze bottles....
