Developed by a group of MIT students this is a SOS Stress Outsourced networked wearable system that allows users to send and receive massages anonymously. A new type of haptic social networking (or social therapy), SOS allows stressed individuals to send anonymous signals via the wearable to a global...
The Zwerglgarten, or “Dwarf Garden” in Salzburg, Austria was created in 1715 by Prince Archbishop Franz Anton Harrach. Many of the statues were modeled after dwarves who lived in the court (they served as entertainers to the archbishop), the rest inspired by peasants and foreigners. The Dwarf Garden...
This post features an unusual media used in fine arts, feathers. Feather Art is drawing illustrations and paintings on feathers. Julie Thompson paints amazing illustrations directly on feathers. Julie Thompson is a wildlife artist who is mostly self-taught. She is living in the beautiful Puget Sound...
Embriody went open source with Open Source Embroidery and an exhibition is going to be held this week in Sweden. Open Source Embroidery is a major exhibition of new work and commissions at BildMuseet in Sweden and Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco, USA. The Open Source Embroidery exhibition...
Art can be found in anything depending how you perceive it. Artists have explored their creative sides to share their visions since prehistoric men painted on cave walls with berries. Many modern artists have produced some incredible pieces using atypical and unusual media. Series of these posts is about...
General Motors Corporation was founded in 1908 by William Durant. GM made a history, GM was the global sales leader for 77 consecutive calendar years from 1931 to 2007. It manufactured cars and trucks in 34 countries. But global economic crises, GM policies and US recession brought end of GM. General...
What would you like pass on from yourself to your faraway descendants ? How would you dream our world ? Who are you ? KEO is the name of a proposed space time capsule that will be launched in 2010 or 2011. There have been previous spacecrafts carrying time capsules of earth’s existence sent into space...