WeFab is a three-day event during the Milano Design Week. It is hosted by a collaborative clothing platform, OpenWear, and by Vectorealism, a digital fabrication facility based in Milan. WeFab offers Milano...
OZCHI is Australia’s leading forum for research and development in all areas of Human-Computer Interaction. OZCHI attracts an international community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students...
ISEA, the International Symposium on Electronic Art initiated in 1988, is the world's premier media arts event for the critical discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies...
During Artists Week, from 3rd to 7th of March 2008, at Adelaide Festival Center, the Graffiti Research Lab will leed a week-long masterclass in street art using open source technologies, presented by Carclew...
In this action-packed three days, 19-20-21 febraury 2008, from 10am to 5pm, participants will look at clothes and jewelry and their potential as personal mobile platforms for social interaction. This is...
The seventh annual IF forum will show from 15 th to 17 th November in Victoria , recent tendencies in new media as well as a conference for exploring issues related to technology. The theme of this year's...
In this workshop you will learn how to work with the basic and the wireless Arduino. In the following days more advanced versions and uses, including Bluetooth Arduino's and the programming possibilities...
Enter_Unknown Territories is a festival of interactive and playful public art events, live performances, a conference, workshop and club nights taking place throughout Cambridge.
STRP is a festival which provide an image of how visual art, design, stage arts, film, architecture and popular culture develop themselves through the means or appliance of both new and existing technology
The exhibition explores the notions of being and desire in a society determined by our bodily immersion within an ubiquitous and omnipresent electromagnetic realm
The Attenborough Design Group is a fictional organisation, created by James Chambers and Tom Judd. It investigates the use of animal behaviours to defend emerging technologies. These products include the Gesundheit Radio, which sneezes periodically to expel potentially damaging dust, Floppy Legs, a portable floppy disk drive which stands up if it detects liquid nearby, and the AntiTouch Lamp, which sways away from you if you get too close to its sensitive halogen bulb.
The Gesundheit Radio
Developed as a protection against dust which was particularly threatening to early microprocessors, the Gesundheit Radio sneezes every six months to expel potentially damaging material from it‘s interior. A bellows system extracts the dust from inside the unit, blowing waste from two nostrils located on the front.
A portable disk drive designed to protect the 3.5” disk format from damage. If liquid is spilled near the unit retractable legs raise it from the surface, both preserving the unit and allowing the owner time to clean up the spill.
Antitouch Lamp
Halogen bulbs are very efficient, however touching them with bare hands drastically shortens bulb life. The antitouch lamp boasts proximity sensors in the base so it can sway out of the way and avoid being touched.
