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Chris O'Shea, an artist and designer based in London.
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In 2005 I wrote about Printball by the talented Benjamin Gaulon, a sort of ink jet printer using a computer controlled paint ball gun. In 2008 Nvidia/Mythbusters (may have been) inspired by this and produced the same piece, but also a super charged Mona Lisa version.
André Gonçalves last year created the installation Of How [...]
One of my favorite projects, Topobo (2004), is now available to buy. Unfortunately its priced at $499 for a 100 piece kit, but it is aimed at schools afterall and I know they are expensive to produce. I played with it 2005 and am very happy that its made it into (limited) production.
“Topobo is the [...]
Bandai are releasing an interesting sort of portable augmented reality toy called Tuttuki Bako, most likely only in Japan. This small box has a low resolution lcd screen on the front, and a hole on the side in which you insert your finger. Your finger then appears on the screen augmented into the [...]
Help a battery hen race to freedom. Flap your arms, the harder you flap, the faster it goes. Created for the V&A Village Fete at ico design.
www.chrisoshea.org/projects/flap-to-freedom
www.icodesign.co.uk/chicken
I am finding less time to blog these days, and my list of things to blog keeps getting bigger and bigger. From now on I will do a Pixelsumo digest at the end of each month, containing projects that didn’t make it into full posts in time.
So to start off, here are projects I [...]