Reverse the polarity on sneaker piracy and globalization, and you get something like Chinese sneakers hacked into hover shoes. Video after the jump.
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Extruding the Visual
Video projection extends its pseudopods into the real world in the inspired work of the "anti-VJ" Aalto; video after the jump.
Read More »Expanding Kinectosphere: Gesturing at Your Browser
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.
Read More »Hacking the World of Things
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.
Read More »Knit One, Perl Two
This brilliant hack of a 1980s-vintage Brother knitting machine looks almost as complicated as knitting itself.
Read More »The Writing on the Wall
The strenuous outsider scholarship of underground intellectual Steve Duncan charts the history of New York public transit, surreptitiously. Video after the jump.
Read More »For the Savvy, Hacking GSM Phones is Cheap and Easy
Obsolescing 2G networks furnish security loopholes in mobile networks, which malicious hackers may find easy to exploit.
Read More »When Launching Your Xmas Tree, Don’t Forget the Star
When it comes to Christmas, this Xmas-tree rocket launch proves that hacking is the gift that keeps on giving. Video after the jump.
Read More »The Theory of a Leaky World is Playable
A web-based game simply and elegantly tests Julian Assange's theory of the power of networked secrecy.
Read More »Man On Wireless
A controversial radio-controlled flight over Manhattan brings a measure of joy and wonder to the New York City skyline.
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