"Watch as your player dodges Blinky and Inky while chasing the ever-elusive cherry in this ode to Pacman mobile. This will probably be the least-stressful game of Pacman that you will every play. Humbug to the newer iterations of Pac-Man: here you see him in all his pixelated glory." NEW Pac-Man mobile (mehr Fotos)(via Gamefreaks)
This room was constructed with the humor of Rube Goldberg cartoons in mind at the St. Louis City Museum. Developed organically, the room started with one exercycle on the bench and the thought, "What can this become?" From there, visual and comedic mechanics were added day by day to create a space that with the push of a button, the room would erupt with motion and activity. A line shaft and belt system from the Industrial Revolution was used to transmit power and action over the viewers head, encompassing them with movement and the challenge of deciphering what powers what. An umbrella opens and closes with the aid of cables and manikin hands, a cup floats and falls with the power of pneumatic pistons, a 3ft. wheel of feet kicks up opposing balancing beams, a leg and foot continue to 'kick the bucket' and a fireplace bellows that spins the pinwheel. The line shaft continues on the opposing side to spin a turn of the century shoe polisher and a wall of interconnected bicycle wheels. Shovels hang from the ceiling while being punched by boxing gloves and old dry cleaner racks play the xylophones. In an age of digital automation this purely mechanical machine was created by trial and error, with the driving thought "Maybe this will work."
(via we make money not art)"Tardigotchi is an artwork featuring two pets: a living organism and an alife avatar. These two disparate beings find themselves the unlikely denizens of a portable computing enclosure. The main body for this enclosure is a brass sphere, housing the alife avatar in an LED screen and the tardigrade within a prepared slide. A tardigrade is a common microorganism measuring half a millimeter in length. The alife avatar is a caricature of this tardigrade, its behaviour is partially autonomous, but it also reflects a considerable amount of expression directly from the tardigrade’s activities (like eating) ... By pushing a button, the virtual pet is fed, which in turn will feed the tardigrade. Tardigotchi has a social web presence: sending an email to the virtual character triggers a heating lamp, relaying a momentary signal of warmth to the tardigrade, while prompting the pixelated tardigrade to recline and soak up animated sun rays ... It also serves as a reminder for the special place humans have in communing with other animals, perhaps equally for artificial ones ..." Tardigotschi (inkl. Tardigotschi-Video, das leider erst ab Minute 3:30 halbwegs interessant wird)
"Meet your friendly neighborhood Spider-Kid! It's the stuff of childhood dreams, right? A boy in Cambridge, England, can climb the walls just like his favorite superhero. OK, Vacuum-Boy's powers are slightly less subtle than Peter Parker's. But you have to love 13-year-old Hibiki Kono's creativity. He spent five months designing and building his Spider-Man gear from a pair of cheap 1,400-watt vacuums bought at Tesco (like a British Wal-Mart) and some suction pads ..." POPSCI: English 13-Year-Old Builds Vacuum-Powered Spider-Man Contraption And Literally Climbs the WallsDas Ganze geht auf eine Story in der SUN zurück, aber da rollen sich mir die Fingernägel beim Verlinken auf.
Feng-GUI Research - Iron Man simulator(via Likecool)
Torabakeru – The 虎 (tora, “tiger”) kanji transforms into a tigerPink Tentacle: Mojibakeru kanji-animal transformers
"The Gigants stands head and shoulders above most other playground equipment in size and popularity."(via CAKEHEAD LOVES EVIL)
"What do you get when you combine Jurassic Park with Toy Story?"(via Unique Daily)
Tokyobling’s Blog: Toysaurus – Hiroshi Fuji (Fotos)
LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN: Hiroshi Fuji (Video: "Toy Sculptures" anklicken)
