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 [...]

From the Museum of Childhood I picked up a toy called Switch Pitch (video) that transforms before your eyes.
I was very pleased to read on PingMag that inventor Chuck Hoberman creates both consumer toys and large scale transformable environments using the same principles.
Quote from the interview on Ping (written by Verena):
“Despite your work being based [...]

Following on from the previous ping pong post…
No space in your house for a games or ping pong table? Then the Ping Pong Door could be for you, turning an existing doorway into an occasional use play space.
Designed by Tobias Fraenzel (originally for a DesignBoom contest) who tells me:
“The PingPong Door is ready to put [...]

A while ago I wrote about Plable by Yumiko Tanaka, a project that mixes childs play with social family eating at the dinner table.
Whilst at the graduate show for Goldsmiths University last year I got to play with a wonderful project by Sonal Patel who was at the same time as Yumiko having similair thoughts [...]