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These Minecraft-like playhouses let children design their own home.
Would your rather be playing Minecraft that building your kids a playhouse? Now you can do both. These play spaces by Play Modern not only look like a dwelling in the blocky building game, they can also be broken down and rearranged into different constructions, giving play houses an aura of archite
Modern Warfare 3 made one billion dollars in two weeks.
Gamasutra reports that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has made one billion dollars. The game launched two weeks ago. The company released a statement saying: Call of Duty as an entertainment franchise has made an indelible mark on popular culture and its broad and continued success is further valida
PAUSE: Dev Harlan’s interactive light sculpture brings dancing lunar rhythms.
[via Laughing Squid]
Can robots be viable sources of art?
From cave paintings to modern pieces occupying galleries today, art has been widely deemed a human creation. But as robots continue to accomplish human behaviors, it comes as no surprise that designers in Japan have come up with the “Senseless Drawing Bot,” a system of two pendulums on an electric s
BOOM: What do we share with Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang? Explosions, of course! (Especially rainbow ones.)
Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang has been one of my favorites for some time and I loved his retrospective at the Guggenheim a couple years back. He and I share a similar love of gunpowder/blowing things up, only I play videogames to itch that scratch and he does “explosion events” at modern
This is how toys entertain themselves when you’re not around
Lego mad scientist Hans Andersson has built a sudoku-playing machine and a machine that solves Rubik’s cubes out of automated blocks. Now he has outdone himself with a working clock. I have always been fascinated with time and clocks. Time Twister is my first clock invention… Time Twister consists o
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