CM-X270 credit card-sized computer: “

Looks like miniaturization is in full swing and nanotechnology is the way to go when it comes to everyday devices. Compulab of Israel has managed to develop the CM-X270 computer that shares the same dimensions as a credit card! This tiny device comes with a quartet of USB ports, a PCI bus, 128MB RAM, 512MB of flash memory, and an integrated AC ’97 audio chipset that are running on an Intel XScale processor. Not only that, the CM-X270 comes with WiFi capability to hook up with a network near you. It costs $47 a pop in quantities of 10,000. Yes, we can scarcely believe it ourselves.

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(Via Ubergizmo.)

[tags]computer, pda, mobile[/tags]

Children of DOS – Artist Unknown: “

artist unknown – thanks to MBS for reminding me about that GIF scraper page for LiveJournal – there was so much good stuff I had to stop downloading so I could have a life –
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(Via Tom Moody.)

[tags]graphic, image, gif anim[/tags]

New Features of GE4/KML 2.1: “ture which allows replicated models without requiring a huge KML file. This means you could create a forest of trees with just one tree model.”

(Via Google Earth Blog.)

[tags]mapping, animation, googleearth, real time information, display, augmented reality[/tags]

Mobil Sofa: ““

(Via olof’s StumbleUpon Blog.)

[tags]design, furniture, format[/tags]

Six New World-Changing Trends:

“A green economy and next-generation web sound exciting, but where exactly can they take us? Wired magazine parses the trajectory of the brightest stars in the zeitgeist.

The Power of Peer Production by Chris Anderson

Video Unlimited by Eryn Brown

Made to Order by Kevin Kelleher

Carbon Killers by Eryn Brown

M&A as R&D by Josh McHugh

The Open Everything Economy by Kevin Kelleher
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(Via Wired News.)

[tags]web, evolution, zeitgeist[/tags]

“ Starshine ” and…: “

‘Starshine’ by Markus Vater.

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(Via VVORK.)

[tags]photography, representation, color[/tags]

Ceramic Sphere, Human Hair, Cables, High Voltage…: “

Ceramic Sphere, Human Hair, Cables, High Voltage Generator. ‘Tension Thing’ by Judith Fegerl. Video.

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(Via VVORK.)

[tags]installation, electricity, body, physics[/tags]

MISSION ETERNITY Tank on the way to san jose: “This was the first time in etoy.HISTORY, that all tanks assembled in the same place.



for more pictures visite the gallery
Thanks to Dominique Batschlet for the images.

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(Via etoy.CORPORATION.)

[tags]etoy, tank, exhibition[/tags]

Streets As Stages

With networked technologies now a staple of urban life, it’s hardly a surprise that new media artists so frequently engage the aesthetic possibilities of areas like street corners or shopping malls. The new exhibition, Urban Networks, organized by Susan Joyce at Boston’s Art Interactive, presents works by John (Craig) Simon, Jody Zellen, UrbanTells, Urban Atmospheres, and Finishing School, all of whom explore technologically-mediated encounters and situations in city spaces. Some are interested in social behavior such as ‘Meet/Greet,’ by Finishing School, which examines the interactions between a customized polylingual drone and the pedestrians it addresses. Others are research-based, such as ‘Imaging Place,’ initiated by Simon in 1997, which considers possibilities for location-based virtual reality experiences. On Thursday, June 29th, Art Interactive will team up with new media art organization Turbulence and the Boston branch of the international artist-run Upgrade! ! to present two artists’ talks in conjunction with the exhibition. Join Vancouver-based Nancy Nisbet and MIT graduate student Amber Frid-Jimenez as they discuss their practices–and stretch your notion of creative terrain from your studio out onto the street. – Lauren Cornell

from http://www.artinteractive.org/shows/urban_networks/:

Urban Networks features five interactive art projects that examine social encounters and explorations in urban places. The works in this exhibition employ a range of technological devices that create urban community connections and offer insights into how emerging technologies might play an alternative role in our experience of everyday urban life.

(Via Rhizome News.)

[tags]urbanity, technology, installation, art[/tags]

‘Radio Gallery‘ is a series of 12 commissioned radio programmes that treat one hour of radio as exhibition space. The contributors are artists and curators most of whom have not worked with radio before and whose practices do not necessarily have a relationship to sound. Thus, free of any convention attached to radio-making, they have been invited to develop and expand their artistic or curatorial practice onto the radio format. Responses to the invitation range from exhibitions devoted to Electronic Voice Phenomenon, propaganda or audio time capsules, to meta-radio shows.

CONTRIBUTORS

Åbäke | Thibaut de Ruyter | Raimundas Malasauskas |
Dirk Fleischmann, Nav Haq and Tirdad Zolghadr |
Loris Gréaud and Karl Holmqvist | Jeremy Deller and
Alex Farquharson | Olivia Plender | Matthieu Laurette |
Siniša Mitrovic and Susan Philipsz | Ryan Gander and
Francesco Manacorda | Konst2 and International Festival |
Steve Webber