Troika

How Much Fancier Can This Palindromic, Kinetic Museum Sign Get?

8:00AM July 31, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Yeah, your local museum may think they’re pretty fancy with their glowing Helvetica sign, but does it have revolving parts that turn into a mirrored palindrome? London’s V&A museum is scoffing in the face of yours. More »


Ping Pong Paddle Shows A Ping When You Pong

10:40AM July 22, 2010 | Casey Chan

Ping! Pong! These ping pong paddles have integrated LEDs that display PING or PONG in mid-air when a player hits the ball. It’s like a futuristic version of those unforgettable Adam West Batman fight scenes. Kapow! More »


Software

Desktop-Collapsing Mac ‘Virus’ Now Available for Download

7:24PM June 8, 2009 | John Herrman

One year ago, the Newton “Virus” for OS X dismantled Mac users’ desktops on video, subjecting icons and menu bars alike to the merciless force of gravity. Now, finally, you can download your own copy of this erstwhile art project.

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Software

Plug-’n'-Play USB Virus Makes MacBooks Fall to Pieces

1:23AM March 5, 2008 | Addy Dugdale

newVideoPlayer("newtonvirus_giz.flv", 475, 286,"");Behold, a video of the Newton Virus. Back in 2005, Troika, the British-based art collective that was behind the Heathrow Terminal 5 sculpture that some of you recently described as a “disco turd,” created a virus for Macs, called Newton. It came on a little USB key that looked like a cross between a malevolent Apple and Pac Man and was aimed at, well, people like you or I, who spend far too much time fiddling around on their computers. The video, made this year, is part of the Design and the Elastic Mind show currently running at MoMA in NY. [Troika and Dezeen]


Gadgets

Digital Sculpture at Heathrow Airport Demonstrates that Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining

11:18PM January 30, 2008 | Addy Dugdale

Commissioned for the atrium of the brand spanking new Terminal 5 at Heathrow, Cloud is a digital sculpture conceived by art and design studio Troika. The five-metre structure is suspended above the escalators and consists of three layers. Find out what lies beneath the black and silver flick-dots, and see the sculpture in action below the gallery.

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Entertainment

Troika Engineers Time-Travel to Last Century, Bring Back Stunning Retro Radio

10:32PM November 29, 2007 | Jesus Diaz

This Troika Retro FM/AM Radio proves once again that it only takes brushed aluminium and a design apparently created to play ABBA songs in 70s Sweden to make us drool with desire, no matter if it doesn’t contain a single trace of digital gadgetry inside—just pure analogue noise, oversized knobs and a seemingly gratuitous choke with no obvious application. Unless the thing actually runs on gas, in which case its category could go from “Cool Stuff” to “Must Have NOW.” [Gadget Lab] More »