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Art*o*mats are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. There are 76 active machines in various locations throughout the country. [ find an art*o*mat near you. ] The experience of pulling the knob alone is quite a thrill, but you also walk away with an original work of art. Ker-plunk! What an easy way to become an art collector. [ art*o*mat samples ]

[Artomatic]

The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players add little more than the possibility to perform random temporal jumps between image frames. The goal of the Khronos Projector is to go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate “islands of time” as well as “temporal waves” are created within the visible frame. This is done by interactively reshaping a two-dimensional spatio-temporal surface that “cuts” the spatio-temporal volume of data generated by a movie.

Read More about the Khronos Projector (text taken from there site)

Paul
Cocksedge has managed to fuse art, electricity and light together to
form some very creative pieces. Take “Watt?” for example:
Watt? is designed with purity in mind. The elegant switch is based on the natural conductive properties of the graphite found in pencils.
Connecting two points with the a pencil line completes the circuit and
the light is switched on. When the line is rubbed out the light is
switched off.

Even better is the crystal and laser
chandelier, composed of a Swarovski crystal that catches and splices
the light all across the room, along with a vase that lights up when
there’s a (live) flower present. As Paul’s portfolio requires an access
code to explore, MoCo Loco’s your best bet for good pictures and
details.

Crystallize [MoCoLoco]
Artist Page [PaulCocsedge]
[Via gizmodo]

By information aesthetics::inf*

1,000 individually controllable LED lights ordered in a 10x10x10 matrix act as a low resolution 3D television display. live video or audio data are transformed in dynamic light sculpture ‘visualizations’ in real time. [jamesclar.com]

[Via infosthetics]

Why create audio devices that are beautiful and sound incredible when you can create audio devices that essentially are horrible looking and sound like someone screaming into a Quaker Oats box? Don’t ask us. Ask some kid named Chay. This musical abortion contains a speaker, a mini-amp, and a battery. He’s offering to sell it, if you want to give it a good home.

Speaker Cone [Breakbeaterro via Music Thing + gizmodo]

Instead
of each device needing its own charger, it may soon be possible to
recharge phones and cameras by placing them on a plastic pad the size
of a mouse mat. A dense array of coils buried in the pad will transmit
energy to the gadget to charge its batteries. And it will be possible
to charge as many gadgets as can fit on the pad at once, the inventors
say.

[Via sensoryimpact]

This
makes me wish I owned a cafe because if I did, I’d be bribing Steven
Blyth and Matty Sallin to install their Chit Chat installation in
there. So if any of my customers were talking with each other, a speech
bubble would project above their heads as they talked. The bubble would
swell with the text “blah blah” as they continued to talk and the text
would reflect the volume of your speech by changing size and attributes
(bold, italic).

All of this would take place in Flash. A
script would read the amplitude recorded and generate the proper “blah”
graphic. And if one of them remained silent, they would eventually get
a corresponding thought bubble.

(more…)

[Via sensoryimpact]

By David Pescovitz:

The
Scratchophone wearable DJ rig is Alari Thierry’s “final term project as
a business management student.” The first ever public demonstration
took place last week at the Urban Music Festival at Earl’s Court,
London. The little van is a modified “Vinyl Killer,” a self-contained phonograph needle and speaker that, on its own, will play a record by driving around the grooves. Link (Thanks, Richard Kadrey!)

[link]

[Via boingboing]

The Censtron Wave Vessel takes any audio signal and transforms it into an amazing visual display. It is so easy to use, just plug it into the wall, insert the 1/4″ audio jack, and turn it on. Once you turn it on, you can switch through three exciting modes, which are easily accessible from the switch located on the top of the unit. Words can not do this justice, watch the movie and see it for yourself, you will be amazed.

Features:
1/4″ Audio Input
Simulated Wood Grain
Three Way Mode switch

If you’re interested in how to do this mod, go here. Though it is not recommended because of the risk of injury involved.

[Via Censtron]

Digital Persistence of Memory.
Inspired by Salvador Dali’s melting clocks, this digital clock
prototype designed by Ross McBride has a silicon exterior that’s soft
to the touch. Details include a power cord that run out the bottom of
the clock so that it can be concealed by a tabletop or shelf. Other
designs include the electro-luminescent Time Table (reminiscent of de light), and the multi-functional Swiss Army Table. Via Wrist Fashion.

DESIGNER: Ross McBride
LINK: normal.as
LINK: wristfashion.com

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