itp 2009
Gadgets
I’m Going to Kill John Connor
2:21AM 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. More »
Music
Irregular Incurve: The Robot Ribcage Keytar Is Odd But Beautiful
12:40AM 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: More »
Gadgets
The Bestiary Book: Suck It, Kindle
12:00AM 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] More »
Vehicles
Skybike Is the Closest You’ll Ever to Get Bicycling on Clouds
12:00PM 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. More »
Gadgets
I’d Feel So Grounded Wearing These Electronic Root Boots
11:40AM 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. More »
Games
This Is What It Was Like to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
4:40AM Matt Buchanan | The historical rupture of the atomic bomb makes the moment it was dropped almost ahistorical—Hidezaku Furuya’s videogame documentary forces you to inhabit it as a crewmember of the Enola Gay. It’s quite startling. More »
Games
Mr. Miyagi Busted My Balls So Hard
4:00AM Matt Buchanan | I failed miserably trying to catch a fly with chopsticks in Mr. Miyagi’s Fly Catcher Game. Honestly, it’s because a fat woman in a green shirt walked by and made it go wonky. [ITP] More »
Gadgets
The 100-Year Alarm Clock
3:40AM Matt Buchanan | Time rendered in machined metal: The largest gear in “Time in Six Parts” takes 100 years to complete one revolution—when it’ll crash to the ground, waking up the giants that’ve conquered the earth. More »
Robots
Jackson Pollock’s Soul Trapped Inside a Robot
2:20AM Matt Buchanan | What happens when you trap Jackson Pollock’s soul inside of arduino-powered robots? More »
Games
