MIT MediaLab can't stop surprising the digital innovation world. Their last creation, nammed ZeroN, looks promising : a weightless small ball made of metal, linked to a smart system. The ball follows, notices, and reproduces the moves. When most of weightless structures are generally quite unsteady and sensitive, ZeroN can be touched, pushed, shaked without losing its balance in the air. Learn more about ZeroN in the MIT MediaLab video.  ...

Vida is committed to supporting excellence in the field of artistic research into artificial life. The new call is now open for the forthcoming edition and whose objective is to reward projects created in the past two years that offer innovative insights on life and its properties. Special attention will be placed on projects which, through the use of current technologies and the principles of the discipline, express new ways of simulating living systems, showing dynamic and evolving behaviors a...

Digitalarti announces the second version of its iPhone, iPad and Android apps! Since two years, Digitalarti offers mobile users the discovery of the best of Digital Art. Now, a new free version is available with a gallery of images and videos and faster downloading. To enjoy it, just upgrade the previous version or download Digitalarti from your app store. The application is also optimized for viewing on the iPad. ...

  Recent clients include:         Accenture, Arte, Futur en Seine, Ministère de la Culture, L'Oréal, SFR.   Digitalarti Services team has, since years, organised tens of exhibitions, events, innovation missions, co-productions and more. For corporations from technology to luxuryy, from automobile to finance or medias, often in partnership with event or communication agencies. Kodak, Sony, Intel, EutelSat, France Television Di...

    /// Xth Sense. The Xth Sense is a low cost, Open Source-based framework for the application of muscle sounds to the biophysical generation and control of music (or more generally for responsive milieux).  The framework includes a low cost biosensing wearable device, and a modular DSP software (Pure Data-based) for real time capture, analysis and design with muscle sounds. Marco Donnarumma will be reporting on the methods used during the research, present findings,...

About iMAL A short history iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory), is a non-profit association created in Brussels in 1999, with the objective to support artistic forms and creative practices using computer and network technologies as their medium. In 2007, iMAL opened its new venue: a Centre for Digital Cultures and Technology of about 600m2 for the meeting of artistic, scientific and industrial innovations. A space entirely dedicated to contemporary artistic and cultural practices eme...

the new MEDIARS web site is online!we designed a completely new interface, in Italian and English. We also embedded slideshows with a lot of photos about our activities, artworks and the international workshops!  http://www.mediars.eu ...

Schimmel Pegasus Grand Piano Could Probably Travel Through Time and SpaceLooking like it belongs in Jeff Vader's Coruscant bachelor pad, the hand-made Schimmel Pegasus has an ergonomically curved keyboard, over 200 strings under a total tension of 176,520 newtons, and a key assembly composed of 10,000 pieces. Only 14 were made ten years ago for people like Eddie Murphy, Lenny Kravitz, and granfunkmeister Prince.More on http://gizmodo.com/364193/schimmel-pegasus-grand-piano-could-probably-travel-...

The Emotiv EPOC headset is the most advanced mass-produced consumer-grade EEG headset on the market. It has 14 electrodes (as opposed to NeuroSky's single-electrode and OCZ's three-electrode headsets) and it can also detect head movement using a built-in gyroscope. The EPOC uses its sensors to detect changes in electrical activity using EEG monitoring techniques that let it detect facial gestures and estimate roughly relative mood states. Emotiv's intent with the EPOC is to...