In the clip for "Sprawl II," you can control the dance moves of creepy suburban drones using your webcam, but there's more to the video than just its novelty.READ»
Are we in the Second Great Dot-Com Bubble, or has the Internet Economy actually just become . . . the economy? With tech bloggers suddenly morphing into venture capitalists and social/mobile/geo-located/gamified startups springing up ...READ»
I'm like a broken record at this point: designers, filmmakers, and creative communicators of all stripes should to learn how to code. Clever tools and study guides abound for helping non-hackers start getting their hands dirty on the ...READ»
E-books are already a fraught subject for many readers, writers, publishers and designers, but children's e-books are even more so. Is it rotting their minds? Is it as good as good ol' paper? Is it too interactive for their own good? ...READ»
A live poetry reading is usually an intimate experience, but that doesn't mean it can't be augmented with some high-tech spectacle as well. That's exactly what "creative coder" Andrea Cuius and designer Roland Ellis created for poet ...READ»
Most of the electronic "generative music" apps we've written about before are flat -- not in terms of their musical tones, but their 2-D interface design. A new toy called OscilloScoop adds a little depth to the scene, by letting you ...READ»
Last March, I poked fun at Verizon Fios’s antiquated implementation of remote control use, television interface design, use of widgets, and blatant lack of thought regarding how today's audiences actually watch television and ...READ»
Noise-canceling headphones are fine, but what if there were a way to take that incoming noise and replace it with actual music? That's the idea behind Andreas Raptopoulos's "adaptive acoustic architecture" technology, or A3. He ...READ»
You know a sci-fi concept like "brain/computer interface" is gaining critical mass when it starts to be incorporated into incredibly silly products. I remember playing with a brain-sensor headset from Emotiv at CES a few years ago, ...READ»
Geoff Keighley is kind of like the John McPhee of video game journalism: he made his name by publishing exhaustively reported, fly-on-the-wall accounts of the making of blockbuster games like Metal Gear Solid 2 and Half-Life 2. Then ...READ»
Social network visualizers are often fun and usually pretty, but sometimes they don't actually let you see your Twitter or Facebook networks in a new way. Fizz is a simple yet appealing "pop-cultural instrument for data expression and ...READ»
You wouldn't think that an iPad app whose main draw is to vividly remind you of your own mortality would be all that appealing. But Up Inc. and photographer Sandy Nicholson have pulled it off with "0 to 100," a slideshow of ...READ»
Meet Margie. She’s 36, married, and works as a career counselor at a professional school. With two boys, ages 7 and 10, Margie’s mornings are hectic. After a quick breakfast, she loads the boys and her gym bag in the car. From ...READ»
[This is the first installment in a new series by Paddy Harrington, executive creative director at Bruce Mau Design.]
Ricky Gervais is a great designer.
Some would say that Gervais’s cutting jokes as the host of the Golden ...READ»
You may not know what fractals are, mathematically speaking, but you know what they look like: tangled, crenelated forms bending and burbling in on themselves into infinity in a geometric, yet weirdly organic way. Generating fractal ...READ»
Since time immemorial (ie: 1995), Pitchfork.com has been the music tastemaker for anyone with a beer-making kit and a mustache comb. But what if you're a person with a straight job and a sensible haircut, and don't have time to read ...READ»
The 2010 Census data was just released before Christmas, but Stamen designer Michal Migurski already has their infographics beat. His interactive census visualizer, ThisTract.com, mashes up numbers from the previous census with your ...READ»
