Future, Frivolity & Folly — By Jay Oatway
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Eurpoeans are gobbling up Chinese art faster than you can say, "sweet and sour take-away." And you don’t even need to leave the comfort of your own computer screen to visit the gallery [via PSFK]
Cao Fei is a 29 year old artist from Guangzhou, China who is using Second Life as her artistic medium and making good money along the way. The …
A man rides up on his bike and projects a video onto a wall beside you. What do you do? Do you watch, ask for popcorn, or flee to safety? If the man on the bike is Fernando Llanos, you’ll want to stick around — even if you can’t stand the artsy-fartsy mumbo-jumbo that describes his work [via Madrid Abierto]:
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Concerned parents everywhere will be buying this new "game system" from Swinxs, which "tricks" the kids into moving around outside. While outdoor exercise may be a foreign concept to the video game generation, the Swinxs promises to have them racing each other, playing catch and engaging the device in a much more physical way than even the Wii, with all its injuries, can offer [via Engadget] (Video link)
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Yesterday’s music-cum-arts festival, Clockenflap, in Hong Kong had all the promise to be a seedling SXSW festival for Asia — showcasing musical acts, celebrating the creativity and passion behind the coolest new media technologies, cultivating the art and business of independent filmmaking.
The massively talented Robot collective had driven the hype of a multimedia exhibit, …
Nothing reveals the true spirit of Xmas quite like battle toys. And when it comes to battle toys, nothing beats a laser attack helicopter [via Geekdad]
One of the biggest selling toys last year was the mini RC helicopter. As mentioned at Geekdad, they are …
The starting gun fires and all you hear is the snick snick snick snick of the cyborg legs scissoring down the track. Forget testing the limits of a natural athlete. We know that we’ve reached the pinnacle for meat and bones. But we are just getting started at testing the techno-doped athlete. …
Not since Jimmy Hendrix lit his guitar on fire at Monterey has the world seen such a visual display on the face of the trusty rock’n'roll axe — presenting The TV-Guitar <natch>. The invention of Ben Lewry of Lewry Guitars, builds a laptop -esque visualizer display …
While there is no shortage of video sharing services, Google will no doubt be the Grandaddy of them all. So the clever services now are the ones that are tapping into the Google archive, like DownloadGoogleVideos.com :: Easily Watch, Search for and Download Google Videos. Here’s a quick taste: DownloadGoogleVideos.Com …
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