Hybrid Objects

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An interactive multi-coloured lamp controlled with real inks.

A playful calculator designed for small children. Knock out a calculation on the wood surface and it will knock back with the answer. Installation: original wooden…

Projects, tools and platforms at the intersection of art, media and technology

adorned using a fine palladium paint with conductive properties, the ceramic radio can be controlled with tactile gestures.

Vai Kai is raising funds for Avakai—An Imaginary Friend. For Real. on Kickstarter! Communicate emotions and play with imagination. At home, outside or across the world. No screens required.

This Dementia Simulator headset designed by Central Saint Martins graduate Di Peng lets wearers experience symptoms of the disease for themselves

People who know me well consider me to be semi-obsessed with the weather. I check it often, and I've long had the habit — often wondering if I was the only one — of bookmarking the cities of my friends and family in my app of choice, Weather Underground, just so I could picture from time to time whether they might be out frolicking in the sunshine that day, or cowering from a nasty snowstorm. It's no wonder, then, that when an email came in this morning from the folks at the Italian…

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The Yoto Player, designed by Pentagram London, uses physical cards to let kids choose what songs, audiobooks, and podcasts they want to listen to. Parents can connect the speaker to an app and upload their own content to blank NFC cards, or use it as a regular Bluetooth speaker.

Bjørn Karmann

ElectroDermis - Electronic Skin — Morphing Matter Lab

There’s something special about the layout of a print-edition newspaper. A news website has infinite vertical scrolling space, but a printed front page is fixed to the same size every day. This…

Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who is interested in art as research and critical practice.

Stromsparen ist wichtig. Sei es der Umwelt zu Liebe oder um den Geldbeutel zu schonen. Trotzdem fristet der Stromzähler, einziger Indikator über den eigenen Stromverbrauch, sein Dasein im Keller und wird nur selten abgelesen. Meta ist ein Konzept mit dem Ziel, den eigenen Stromverbrauch stärker ins Be- wusstsein des Verbrauchers zu bringen. Es verzichtet auf […]