Itp 2009

This Sublimely Trippy Floor Responds To My Every Captivated Step

12:00PM December 23, 2009 | Brian Barrett

Here’s something beautiful: a mechanical garden that responds to your step. It makes me feel like I’m in Wonderland. More »


Human Wind Chime Would Be Perfect For Your Rocket Ship’s Porch

10:00AM December 22, 2009 | Brian Barrett

This installation at NYU’s ITP Winter Show responds to touch and sounds as trippy as it looks. That’s a very good thing. More »


The Musical Liquor Cabinet Puts Your Vices In Stereo

3:40AM December 22, 2009 | Brian Barrett

I’m surprised something like the Swig & Jig hadn’t been invented yet, but so glad that someone finally got around to making a liquor cabinet that throws a party every time you take out a drink. More »


The Silicone Dress With Strategically Placed Lighting (Optional)

1:00PM December 21, 2009 | Brian Barrett

I’m not sure if a dress composed of a few dozen dragon skin silicone tiles – each infused with an LED light – is the most comfortable or practical thing to wear, but it sure does create all kinds of possibilities. More »


Online

Foursquare, As Seen By The Predator

9:30AM December 21, 2009 | Brian Barrett

If you’ve ever wanted to see the places you frequent most rendered as a heat map, Steven Lehrburger’s Where Do You Go project for NYU’s ITP Winter Show is worth a pixelated look. More »


Gadgets

I’m Going to Kill John Connor

2:21AM May 13, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

This is what you look like wearing Robert Carlsen and Andrew Styer’s BlindSight, which induces “visual hallucinations with photic stimulation,” aka flashing red lights you control by waving your arms. It made me dizzy.

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Irregular Incurve: The Robot Ribcage Keytar Is Odd But Beautiful

12:40AM May 13, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

Irregular Incurve started as an attempt to design a new acoustic instrument puny humans couldn’t wrap their hands or mouths around—the result is a robot dinosaur rib cage that plays music. It’s mesmerising:

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Gadgets

The Bestiary Book: Suck It, Kindle

12:00AM May 13, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

Simple, really, but the effect is pretty marvelous when you think about it in the context of ebook readers like the Kindle. [Bestiary at ITP]

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Cars

Skybike Is the Closest You’ll Ever to Get Bicycling on Clouds

12:00PM May 12, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

Mario Diamantis spent a lot of his childhood hanging upside down from trees. But in a tree, you’re stuck. Skybike is the solution to his eternal childhood dilemma: Freedom.

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Gadgets

I’d Feel So Grounded Wearing These Electronic Root Boots

11:40AM May 12, 2009 | Brian Lam

I found a little glen amongst the cold glass and steel of the ITP projects. In it, a sprite or tree spirit or alanis morissette clonette was wearing these thrumming, bark-covered, tree-loving, meditation boots.

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