Category: tech toys

Bittorrents and The Pirate Bay are both concepts I’d file under “Difficult to Explain to Parents”. Fittingly, 3D-printing has been added to the picture, effectively forming the ultimate

I love a good Rube Goldberg machine, and the latest kinetic design by Joseph Herscher is what you’d call “a real Page Turner.” In an era where we’re

If you grew up in the 80s, Australian artist cTrix is about to blow your mind. He wrote a bit of code,  did some creative configuring and turned

WOW. Just WOW. Mancunian DJ, Danny Drive Thru, created this most excellent music video using only animated gifs and an 8-bit remix of a hip hop song called

This past summer, San Franciscan Jeremy Fish unveiled his beautiful audio-visual storytelling show, Listen and Learn, at Joshua Liner Gallery in New York. From across the country, I

Washington-based painter, Tyree Callahan, modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter by replacing the letters and keys with color pads and hued labels. Presto: painting machine! Callahan submitted the Chromatic Typewriter

3D-printing is shaping up to become a real game-changer in the world of sculpture. Through my work with MAQET, I’m learning a lot about the technology. Yet, even

Most people shy away from chaos, but some thrive on it. If you fall into the latter category, you’ll enjoy the opportunity to insert yourself into the SKWAK

David Cranner, maker of electronic instruments and mechanical sculptures, augmented this Van Orlax with two “Weird Sound Generators” that provide “bleeps, filters and drones to be manipulated by

Filed under AWESOME. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that my adoration for animated gifs runs deep. There’s just something charming about the