Hacking

You might think that genetic engineering is an incredibly complex, expensive, and high-tech process. And that�s where you�d be wrong.

The Internet doesn't want you to think about it too much, but you never really know what you're looking for. Evoking the presence of 17th-century savant John Dee, Scryberspace cracks open the search experience.

You bought it? You own it; don't let esoteric screwheads take it away from you. Video after the jump.

Tearing down tens of thousands of horoscopes, David McCandless seeks the heart of the Zodiac not in the stars, but in the word-clouds.

Reverse the polarity on sneaker piracy and globalization, and you get something like Chinese sneakers hacked into hover shoes. Video after the jump.

Video projection extends its pseudopods into the real world in the inspired work of the "anti-VJ" Aalto; video after the jump.

To demo their Javascript framework for the Kinect, this MIT Media Lab team made a gestural web browser interface. Insert gratuitous tech-blogger Minority-Report rave here.

A documentary that helps us glimpse one of modernity's unlikeliest and most enticing of possible ends: the open-source cracking-open of industrial society.

This brilliant hack of a 1980s-vintage Brother knitting machine looks almost as complicated as knitting itself.

The strenuous outsider scholarship of underground intellectual Steve Duncan charts the history of New York public transit, surreptitiously. Video after the jump.