Fake-for-Real Fur from Imaginary Animals
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Fake-for-Real: Octopus Lips
Freya HutchingsA recent lip filler trend blew up on social media. 'Devil lips' , or Octopus lips, have attracted divided opinion online. When the body modification hit Instagram, some spectators …
Fake-for-Real: Who Is Lil Miquela?
Ruben BaartThis Instagram model makes her fans wondering whether she is fake or real.
Fake for Real Memory Game
The Fake for Real Memory Game consists of 60 cards that playfully visualize the classical theme of Fake vs Real. Is everything that was once directly experienced in our media …
Fake for Real: A Memory Game about Reality
The Fake for Real Memory Game playfully visualizes the classical theme of Fake vs Real. Is everything that was once directly experienced, in our media society now replaced by …
Fake for Real: Everyday Acting
Koert van MensvoortWas it real, or is she just trying to please me? Let’s face it: men are secretly insecure, because with women you just can’t tell! The classic romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally …
Fake for Real: Disasters like from a Movie
Koert van MensvoortTwo disasters in New York, with the Emirpe state in view. In The Day After Tomorrow, a Hollywood blockbuster about climate change, New York is submerged by a catastrophic flood. …
Fake for Real: The Real Life of flat Characters
Cartoon characters fuel our imagination. For the duration of the book or movie, they supply us with an alternative playful identity; an escape from the dull monotonous everyday …
Fake for Real: Image Consumption
Koert van MensvoortHey! That muddy, greasy burger on my plate isn't the firm, fresh, delicious one I picked out from the advertisements above the counter, is it? I vividly remember my first visit to …
Fake for Real: The Photoshop Reporters
Koert van MensvoortWhen the former football star and actor OJ Simpson was arrested for the murder of his ex-wife and her friend, both Newsweek and Time Magazine used the police mug shot on their …
Fake for Real: Toys are Us
Koert van MensvoortPlay can be a wonderful way to learn new things. Even young lions obtain their predatory skills through play. Don't worry - it's only a game! Humor can bring relief in tense …
Fake for Real: Dressed for Faith
Koert van MensvoortBoth men pictured have a strong fan base of believers and skeptics. Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children, visits various countries at the end of each year for a gift-giving …
Fake for Real: Fantasy Castle
Koert van MensvoortDisney's Sleeping Beauty Castle could be the single best-loved structure in the world. Ever wondered where Walt Disney got his enchanting fairytale aesthetic? The castle, which …
Louis Vuitton VS Fake for Real
Koert van MensvoortThe Fake for Real Memory Game – consisting of 60 cards that playfully visualize the classical theme of fake and real in our society – has temporarily been taken offline due to …
Fake for Real: Actress Plays Virtual Character
Koert van MensvoortTomb Raider, featuring superwoman Lara Croft, was one of the most successful video games of its generation. Although many computer games had previously been created as spin-offs …
Fake for Real: World View
Koert van MensvoortIn ancient times, heroes like Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus explored unknown territories of the globe. The climax of these terrestrial explorations was reached at the …
Fake for Real: Man in the Mirror
Koert van MensvoortSome days when we look in the mirror we like what we see, some days less so. Would it not be great to be able to tweak the image a bit? After all, it is our main manifestation to …
Fake for Real: White House
Koert van MensvoortThe White House, seat and symbol of the US government, is built in a Roman style, which was in turn inspired by Greek architecture. At left, we see it applied in the Villa …
Fake for Real: Design for the Masses
Koert van MensvoortThe delicate armchair depicted at left is a Finnish design created in 1931-1932 by architect and designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), who in Scandinavia is sometimes called the …
Fake for Real: Is that coffee you're drinking?
Koert van MensvoortCreating the perfect cup of espresso used to be an art form in itself. The beans had to be ground to exactly the right coarseness and the water pressure precisely controlled to …
Fake for Real: The Money Matrix
Koert van MensvoortIt's fascinating how stock traders can get so excited about a few abstract numbers on an electronic display. These numbers represent real money, and every small fluctuation can …
Fake for Real: QWERTY, the Right Order
Koert van MensvoortDid you ever wonder why the letters on the keyboard are in the order they are? The reason for QWERTY goes way back. This order was chosen to reduce the probability that mechanical …
Fake for Real: Romantic Sunsets
Koert van MensvoortSunsets are loved by people all around the globe. Could this universal aesthetic preference be linked to a deeply rooted understanding of the sunset's importance? Life on earth …
Fake for Real: Sim City
Koert van MensvoortAt right is a picture of the city of Toronto seen from a 45-degree angle. At left is a screen shot from the computer game Sim City, in which the player's objective is to develop …
Fake for Real: Virtual Miss
Koert van MensvoortWhich of these women do you think is more beautiful? At the 2002 Miss Germany pageant, the eight finalists were photographed from the same angle without makeup. The portraits were …
Fake for Real: Walking Leaf
Koert van MensvoortAlmost by default, we associate simulation with modern media: games and virtual reality. But what about the Phyllium giganteum ? It is not a leaf but an insect disguised as one. …
Fake for Real: Ceci n'est pas une Montagne
Koert van MensvoortAsk a child to draw a mountain and you will get something like the Matterhorn. The shape of this famous mountain, situated on the Swiss-Italian border in the Alps, is one of the …
Fake for Real: Dolly, the Cloned Sheep
Koert van MensvoortRemember Dolly, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell? Her birth was announced in 1997. People tend to see clones as exact copies of the originals, …
Fake for Real: The most famous reproduction
Koert van MensvoortThe Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world. Just about everyone knows the mysteriously smiling lady. But how many of us have actually been to the Louvre to see it with …
Fake for Real: Can You Taste the Difference?
Koert van MensvoortYou can't beat the real thing, but then again, some generations seem to prefer the other choice. Competition between cola brands goes back a long time. Over the years, the two …
Fake for Real: Digital Trashcan
Koert van MensvoortAt the beginning of the digital era, several metaphors from the physical world were transferred to the digital environment in order to make, otherwise incomprehensible, technology …
Fake for Real: Phone Trees
Koert van MensvoortFor a long time in the history of painting, the landscape functioned merely as a backdrop for people, buildings or symbols. But in the 17th century, artists started making …
Fake for Real: Redefining Nemo
Koert van MensvoortAfter having seen Disney's blockbuster 'Finding Nemo', every scuba diver that happens to meets with the original white orange striped clownfish underwater, will unmistakable think …
Fake for Real: Reflections in the Cave
The Lascaux cave conserves some of the first images created by man, dating back to around 15,000 BC. The depiction of large animals on the cave walls is considered as a …
Fake for Real: Cartoon Rats
Arnoud van den HeuvelIn 2000 on a Japanese auction site , 20 real live Pokemon Pikachus were offered for 925 million dollars. Roughly translated: We capture each one after your order, so we guarantee …
Fake for Real
Koert van MensvoortFakeness has long been associated with inferiority. Fake Rolexes that break in two weeks, plastic Christmas trees, leaky silicone breasts that cause cancer, imitation caviar. Even …
Fake for Real video
Video of the Fake for Real Memory Game , presented by Hendrik-Jan Grievink & Koert van Mensvoort at the Style First exhibition in the museum Mudac , Lausanne, Switzerland. …
How to get rid of 2400 memory games
Koert van MensvoortThe Fake for Real memory game was sold in a stylish box with a pattern resembling the internationally known and faked Louis Vuitton pattern. The LV pattern was ironically mimicked …
I’ll Take A Variety of Fried Gadgets, Please
Alessia AndreottiIs a deep-fried iPad as unhealthy as a McDonald's meal?
The Search for the "Real" Thanksgiving
Allison GuyThanksgiving is fake-for-real. While it's true that there was a minor harvest feast in 1621, held by English immigrants and Wampanoag Indians, the event was never celebrated …
The Chinese Museum with 100% Fake Art
Allison GuyNew wealth and old laws mean that China is awash in forged artwork.
Welcome in the Real Unreality
NextNature.netThis Sunday next nature maven Koert van Mensvoort is interviewed in what is arguably the finest show on Dutch television: VPRO Tegenlicht.
Clean linen toilet spray
Koert van MensvoortSo what to think of this? A toilet spray that mimics the smell of clean linen. It is great in the beginning, yet in time your bed will smell like a toilet. Found in the futuristic …
Dog Modding in China
Hendrik-Jan GrievinkAs a child, I already saw some great tiger potential in my cat and some shark-ish attitude in the behaviour of my goldfish. Personally, I think that since we started domesticating …
Geminoid Female
Arnoud van den HeuvelProfessor Hiroshi Ishiguro ( Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaska University) has done it again! This time in coöperation with robot-maker Kokoro Co. Ltd . Objective: to …
Nano Product: The Food Printer
Hendrik-Jan GrievinkAre we creating the penicillin or the asbestos of the 21st century? In the months preceding our Nano Supermarket Project , we share some speculative nanotech products with you. …
Fake Plastic Bags – Made From Real Leather
Koert van MensvoortFakeness is traditionally associated with inferiority; cheap Rolexes that break in two weeks, plastic Christmas trees, leaking silicone breasts, imitation caviar... However, in a …
Real women advertise RealDolls
Allison GuyAt the 2011 Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, a photograph of a flesh-and-blood woman advertises a RealDoll, the life-sized sex mannequin made for people with a fetish for …
Turn Your Laptop into a Retro Typewriter
Allison GuyMiss the soothing clacking of typewriter keys? Long for satisfying clang of a carriage return? Noisy Typer , a piece of freeware for your Mac, adds the nostalgic noises of a …
Yes, There Is Now a TV Channel Just for Dogs
Allison GuyDogTV , a new TV channel available in the US, offers 24/7 programming for the modern dog. There's busy streets, computer-animated moths and frolicking, cross-breed hounds. The …
Fake Stores for a Crumbling Economy
Allison GuyA 2 million pound investment to hide economic decay with fake storefronts.
Food Familiarization #1: Semantic Tricks
Allison GuyWhen does a rose not smell as sweet? When it's a Patagonian toothfish.
Food Simulator to Fulfill the Desire to Eat
Alessia AndreottiTwo master's students have created a speculative device to simulate the sensations of eating.
Frisky Whisky: Radioactive Booze from the Atomic Age
Allison GuyThe world's first – and hopefully last – whiskey aged with radioactivity.
Hong Kong Says "Cheese" to Pollution
Alessia AndreottiHong Kong has a rather cynical solution to the problem of ugly air pollution.
How to Turn Pork in to Beef
Koert van MensvoortNext, we are anticipating recipes on how to turn pork into dinosaur filet.
Making Fake Eggs to Beat the Real Thing
Allison GuyTech experts are betting that they can make vegetarian eggs that outperform the real thing.
Manufacturing Imperfection in Processed Luncheon Meats
Allison GuyFood companies are hard at work inventing processes to make luncheon meat look "deli fresh".
NASA Solves the Toxic 'New Car Smell'
Jonathon MarkowskiA new material can stop toxic off-gassing from plastics, but the 'new car smell' is so valuable the car industry might not change.
Now Your Smartphone Can Smell Like Barbecue and Buttered Potatoes
Alessia AndreottiAn olfactory device for Smartphones that spreads the aroma of barbecue using an app.
Scientists Implant False Memory in Mice
Alessia AndreottiManipulations of the mind that were once the terrain of futuristic fantasy are now one step closer to becoming reality. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology …
Take a Walk on the Fake Side
Alessia AndreottiWhen you look into the anamorphic abyss, the anamorphic abyss also looks into you.
Faking a Holiday on Social Media
Alessia AndreottiDutch girl fakes an exotic holiday with the power of Photoshop and Facebook.
Share the Smell of Your Delicious Dish
Julia WeberThe oPhone and oSnap allow you to send pictures with aromatic vocabularies.
Veggie Burger That Bleeds Like Real Meat
Alessia AndreottiProf. Patrick Brown developed a meatless burger that look and taste like meat, made out of plant ingredients.
Drugs Testing with Artificial Organs
Yunus Emre DuyarResearchers are working on artificial organs-on-chips will be used for drug development.
Lab-Grown Horn to Help Prevent Poaching
Yunus Emre DuyarPembient, a West Coast startup, might have a solution to the rhino-poaching problem with its lab-grown rhino horn project.
Poem Passes the Turing Test
Yunus Emre DuyarZackary Scholl developed a program to produce a poem that passed the Turing Test.
How Technology is Becoming More and More Sensitive
Margherita OlivoOver the past decade scientists have tried to get technology surfaces to be as sensitive as our skin, especially as our fingertips. Human tact is a very sophisticate interface …
The Future of Artificial Reproduction
Yunus Emre DuyarAccording to researchers we could go a step further and use stem cells derived from your skin cells.
2040: the Year We'll Know How 2000 Was
Alejandro AlvarezTThe Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows defines anemoia as the felling of nostalgia for a time you’ve never known. This word may not be frequently used, but it describes a common feeling.
"Death School" to Learn Love Life Again
Monika KozubAt Hyowon Healing Centre in Seoul you can experience the emotional cost of a suicide during "Death School" classes.
The "Dog" That Will Save Lives
Margherita OlivoA laboratory is developing a synthetic dog that will be used for surgery trials, saving many canine lives and changing the veterinary world.
Feeling Lonely with 1000 Facebook Friends
Ingmar NieuweboerLoneliness is a major social issue and can only be 'cured' with real world interaction.
Fiction to Reality: Invented Traditions
Alejandro AlvarezIt’s true that mexicans celebrate Day of the Dead dressing as skeletons and setting shrines to death, but the carnivalesque parade with giant puppets was a surprise to every local who watched the movie.
Meat Lovers Megasteak Delight
Koert van MensvoortGrown in a laboratory in Wageningen and it is vegetarian too.
Flip-Flop Selfie
Mathilde NakkenThese two boys use the nap of their flip-flop as a camera to take an imaginary selfie. Still, their selfie went viral and it became our peculiar image of the week.
Computer-Simulated Realistic Sounds
Daniel FragaResearchers at MIT have created a system that is able to simulate sounds that are so perfect that they can even fool human listeners.
From Bad Selfie to Perfect Portrait
Ruben BaartSay goodbye to bad selfies with Adobe’s latest AI photo editor.
Fake for Real: Natural Breasts?
Koert van MensvoortIt is true, they are rare, but they do exist: girls with tiny waists and large breasts. Occasionally, women are simply born like this. The only problem they have - in a world …
Fake for Real: Pharmaceutical Candy
Koert van MensvoortValium, Prozac, Placebo, Viagra, Candy: can you say which one doesn't belong? Or, to rephrase the question: can you say exactly where the boundary lies between medicine and …
Deliver us from Skeuomorph Prosthetics
Koert van MensvoortNo, this is not another example in our fake for real series , comparing an artificial with a human hand. Rather, you are looking at twice the same hand: with and without its …
A view beyond
Rolf CoppensImagine the impossible… a secret transatlantic tunnel running between New York and London, that has lain undisturbed for a hundred years. And imagine an extraordinary optical …
Apples and Oranges
oustamanSeen in an article of Smashing Magazine . See also: Better than the real thing .
Fake-Space Race
Koert van MensvoortSome weeks ago we pondered over the oddity of a space race in cyberspace . Rockets and jet-packs –so cool in the previous century– don't make sense in a virtual environment. The …
Million dollar burger
Rolf CoppensPETA –People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals– has posed a challenge to the world's scientific community: The first person to come up with a method to produce commercially …
Paradise Now
Hendrik-Jan GrievinkAnimation studios working in the field of architectural practice like Squint/Opera create glimpses of the future that are so beautifully convincing, you sometimes wonder if the …
Photoshop terrorism
Rolf CoppensSome months ago Iran did a test to show off their missile power which turned out to be quite embarrassing because one out of three did not work. Fortunately, they had a good copy …
Remember nature? Fake or real?
SaraVisiting the American Natural History Museum in New York, I pictured myself in about, let's say 150 years from now, trying to explain my younger family members what nature looked …
Surrogate Sushi Unmasked with DNA Test
Koert van MensvoortThese two teenagers, Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss, just found out many New York sushi restaurants and seafood markets are playing a game of bait and switch with their sushi. …
Where it came from
Rolf CoppensProcessed lunch meats etched with a laser cutter. The images show the source of the meat, making you more aware of where that great taste comes from. Link
A Society of Simulations
Koert van MensvoortAn interviewer once asked Pablo Picasso why he paints such strange pictures instead of painting things the way they are. Picasso asks the man what he means. The man then takes out …
Deforestation in China threatens giant pandas
Rolf CoppensI found this ad very ironic; after killing the giant panda (by turning it into a logo) WWF is complaining that the Chinese are killing the living version of it. I wonder if they …
Real Baby Dolls
Arnoud van den HeuvelWe already know that guys love dolls ... Now learn why some mothers can never stop playing with dolls and that cuteness is defined in the mind's eye. Image credit: Kentish Babies …
Repairing the Scars of War
Arnoud van den HeuvelLenka Clayton : A series of five digitally repaired images taken in Lebanon of buildings damaged by the 2006 conflict with Israel. The images were taken specifically for this …
Meet the Cellphone that drinks Coke
Koert van MensvoortChinese designer Daizi Zheng created a conceptual mobile phone for Nokia that could be powered by cola. The idea is the phone could run on a battery that uses enzymes to generate …
Mirror Neurons – Simulation at the basis of Human Civilization
Koert van MensvoortWithin our society, imitation and simulation are typically seen as inferior symbols of a distorted mediated culture – think of fake Rolexes, plastic Christmas trees, silicone …
A Rare Giant Crane in Manhattan
Allison GuyIn this Petcha Kutcha presentation, Mike Dickison comes to a very funny conclusion: Although Big Bird might superficially resemble other ratites like the ostrich or emu, he is …
American Hyperbodies
Allison GuyLady Gaga is famous for fashion that exaggerates or obscures her body, but a few months ago, she made a foray into 'actual' body-modification. Gaga appeared on Jay Leno's talk …
Holland Gets an Unnatural High
Allison GuyWhen the Dutch built the Netherlands , they forgot to add any mountains. The highest point in Holland is a measly 323 meters, compared to 2,962 meters for the highest mountain in …
Humane Technology #1: Feels Natural
Allison GuyAll too often, technology frustrates us. It forces our behavior into constrained pathways. Even more insidious, technology can knock us out of alignment with our values, goals or …
Inventing an Extinct Horse
Allison GuyAlong with the Heck cattle and Scottish Highlanders , another reconstructed species roams the Dutch dunes . The sturdy Konik horse , also known as the Polish primitive, is the …
Nintendo Portables Are Breeding Grounds For Sexy Fun
Vincent KlerkxSexuality and sensuality are phenomena which have been a nature for us as long as we humans exist. Not only humans experience these phenomena; also animals experience sexuality …
Occasionally Extinct and Virtually Alive
Allison GuyJapanese researchers are currently working on cloning a mammoth, and plan to produce a fluffy new prehistoric calf within four or five years . The bucardo, an extinct subspecies …
Streetlight Trees
Marco van BeersWe all know the cellphone masts disguised as trees , created in an attempt to blend technology within the 'natural' landscape. Now Taiwanese scientists have created trees that …
Frying Nemo
Koert van MensvoortImage consumption in the overdrive. Peculiar image of the week. Created by Erin Murphy, Victoria Bellavia, Yong Jun Lee & Sanggun Park . Thanks Jeroen van der Meij.
Man-Made Coral Reefs
Koert van MensvoortLast week I had the pleasure of being the studio guest at the Earth Beat radio show. I was treated with examples of 'artificial nature' and asked to respond from a Next Nature …
Pikachu Pussy
Koert van MensvoortThe pursuit of the cute: Pokemon Hypernature . Please don't try this at home with your own kittens, dear intelligent readers. Luckily our peculiar image of the week is digitally …
Real Vanilla is Natural, but Natural Vanilla is Fake
Allison GuyWhat most gourmands would define as "real" and "natural" vanilla flavoring is simple: Vanilla beans steeped in alcohol. But vanillin, the chemical responsible for vanilla's taste …
What do AR-Burgers taste like?
Arnoud van den HeuvelAugmented Reality is supposed to be just over the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" of Gartner's hype cycle . This video, however, is vaulting the technology directly onto the …
A Fake Cruise for a Real Vacation
Alessia AndreottiAll the "fun" of a cruise vacation, with none of the seasickness.
Software Fakes an Active Social Life While You're on the Sofa
Allison GuyCouchCachet promises to give you the fully-booked, in-the-know life while you are on the Sofa.
Dad Hires Virtual Hitman to Kill Son's Online Avatars
Allison GuyA 23-year-old in China was recently puzzled why his online avatars were being killed off at disproportionate rates. After asking around, the young man eventually discovered that …
Fake Shanty Town Simulates Poverty for Rich Vacationers
Allison GuyYou too can experience a life of grinding poverty in South Africa – with free WiFi and optional breakfast.
George's Next Nature Testimonial
NextNature.netWe've asked our followers to send in testimonials on the Next Nature Appzine. George got it right.
Green Man's Next Nature Testimonial
NextNature.netListen to green man and get our iPad appzine too.
Hire a Hyperreal Girlfriend to Look Better on Facebook
Insoo HwangBaudrillard intersects with social media in the world of fake online girlfriends.
More than Fake Nature: The Surprising Sociology of Museum Taxidermy
Allison GuyThe greatest taxidermy in the world reveals a great deal about our changing notions of nature.
NASA Might Give the Moon a Mini-Moon
Allison GuyDoes the moon look lonely? NASA may eventually capture an asteroid to put in orbit around the moon, providing a wealth of research opportunities.
Prosthetic Limbs Straight from Versailles
Allison GuyThe Alternative Limb Project makes beautifully fake artificial limbs.
Rural India's Next Nature Testimonial
NextNature.netVideo testimonial for our Next Nature appzine, all the way from India!
3D printing Tumors to Cure Cancer
Koert van Mensvoort3D printing cancer could be the future of treating cancer.
A Jet without Windows for a Better View
Alessia AndreottiSupersonic jet replaces windows with massive live-streaming screens.
First Completely Artificial Heart Transplant
Alessia AndreottiWorld's first self-regulating artificial heart transplanted in France.
Food To Eat With Your Eyes
Francesca BarchiesiIn Japan, fake food industry represents a century of old crafting tradition and a multi billion business.
It's Always Sunny with LED Panels
Alessia AndreottiAn artificial illumination that is "authentic" enough to replace natural light.
Moonwalk Nike
Alessia AndreottiNike sneakers with lunar surface pattern, to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.
Now Wait, Did Tanks Have Lasers WWII?
Koert van MensvoortRealistic WOII movie Fury had to cater to the gaming generation with hyperrealistic Star Wars style laser shooting tanks.
Phone Case Modeled After a Dead Animal
Alessia AndreottiJapanese designed a phone case using the dead carcass of a crustacean as model.
The Self-Portrait of the Digital Age
Alessia AndreottiThe series Museum of Selfies combines the original art of portraiture with its modern counterpart, the the smartphone self-portrait.
The Smartest Artificial Skin
Alessia AndreottiStretchy artificial skin lets prosthetic hand sense heat, humidity, and pressure.
Analogue vs Digital: Add, Browse, Destroy
NextNature.netJust like Lego, Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks.
Analogue vs Digital: All Art in the World
NextNature.netVisit a couple of museums from all over the world in a single day. The world’s most famous paintings are just one click away.
Analogue vs Digital: Caught on Film
NextNature.netDigital cameras have made us think less about taking a snapshot. Why should you think twice?
Analogue vs Digital: Digital Value
NextNature.netCommon currencies – like the Euro – are almost all controlled by federal institutions.
Analogue vs Digital: Drone Wars
NextNature.netThe use of armed drones has dramatically escalated in the war in Pakistan.
Analogue vs Digital: Interactive Van Gogh
NextNature.netDid Vincent van Gogh ever imagine his paintings would be sold for millions?
Analogue vs Digital: Take a Selfie
NextNature.netNo, the selfie at the top isn’t the latest post of Albrecht Du?rer on Instagram.
Analogue vs Digital: War at Home
NextNature.netFirst-person shooter games let you immerse in a battlefield from the moment you press play.
Artificial Brain Able to Perceive, Learn and Forget
Alexandra BremersScientists in Russia have taken a next step in the development of artificial intelligence by creating a "brain" that is able to educate itself.
Cybernetic Bugs
Alessia AndreottiBeetles, dragonflies, butterflies and bugs made from recycled deconstructed computers, smartphones and consoles.
Don't Trust Dictionaries and Maps
Yunus Emre DuyarEncyclopedias and maps use fake entries and locations to protect their works.
Drone Operated by Honeybee Brain
Yunus Emre DuyarThe Green Brain Project aims to create drones that will think, act and sense like a bee.
Meet Yangyang, Actroid From China
Alessia AndreottiThe humanoid robot Yangyang can function autonomously, talking and gesturing while interacting with people.
Art Installation Submerges Amsterdam
Hessel HoogerhuisWaterlicht shows how the Netherlands would look without waterworks — a virtual flood.
The Candle of the Future
Alessia AndreottiMy New Flame uses LED technology to faithfully recreate the experience of light from the ancient past
The Hotel Run by Robots
Alessia AndreottiA futuristic Japanese hotel will be run by robots, designed to be extremely human-like.
Welcome to the Hearth of the Sun
Alessia AndreottiSolarium, a video installation by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), puts visitors in the hearth of the sun.
Copy-Paste City: from Austria to China
Monika KozubHallstatt, a small UNESCO World Heritage city in central Austria, is the only village in the world entirely copied and rebuilt in China.
When FB Replaced Editors with Algorithm
Ruben BaartFacebook had just fired their curatorial team for the ‘Trending’ news section over an algorithm, resulting in false stories attacking a news anchor, a writer, and Mac Donald’s.
Fake Glaciers for Real Needs
Alejandro AlvarezEngineer Sonam Wangchuk created fake glaciers that are already improving the life of people in Ladakh, Himalayas.
Meet the WiFi Drone
NextNature.netThis is the WiFi drone, a useful companion that perfectly blend into our environment while providing us with information and connectivity.
Plastic Pod Beetles
Alejandro AlvarezArtist Alex Aebi' s collection of insects made of recycled plastic pods show us an alternative way in which this waste can inhabit our natural world.
Photoshop for Voice on Its Way
Monika KozubWhat if we can no longer rely on authenticity of voice recordings? A demo software to alter them premiered recently.
Waiter, There's a Pig in My Soup!
Monika KozubA miniature piglet staring at you from a soup, to remind you the origins of your meal.
Anime Characters at Your Service
Alejandro AlvarezTake a look at this video to get an idea of what life with a virtual anime assistant would look like.
Bionic Leaf Helps Vegetables to Grow
Julie ReindlBionic leaf fertilizes crops to make them weigh 150 percent more
Explore Depths from Your Chair
Mathilde NakkenTo explore deep sea Standfort University developed OceanOne: a humanoid diving robot, which at the same time creates a simulation of the underwater experience on land.
New AI Model Can Mimic Any Human Voice
Elle Zhan WeiLyrebird is an AI model capable of synthesizing anyone’s voice from just a one-minute audio sample.
A Robot Will Spark the Next Avant-Garde
Nadine Roestenburg “An illegal theme park exposing the ideology of the aesthetics of hacking”. “A hybrid drone targeting technological domination”. “A psychedelic fridge to raise doubt about fake …
Orange Petunias Banned in Europe
Julie ReindlGM varieties of petunia are not authorized for cultivation in the EU.
Preventive Punishment for Robots
Elle Zhan WeiThe Punishment is an installation featuring a robotic arm that mimics a kid's handwriting perfectly, and repetitively writes "I must not hurt humans".
Rent a Rain Room
Elle Zhan WeiRent a rain room with simulated rain with a motion sensor to go through the rain without getting wet.
Replacing Fireflies with Lasers
Alec SchellinxAfter mounting criticism from environmentalists, a firefly-themed park in China announced that the glowing bugs will be replaced by lasers.
Your First AI Friend for Life
Elle Zhan WeiReplika is your friend for life. He is 100% AI chatbot that you “raise” by chatting with it.
Jobs for the Extraordinary-Robots at Work #5
Mathilde NakkenThis is post number five of our serie 'Robots at Work'. In this last episode we present you five jobs for the extraordinary, the ones who won't let themselves be categorized.
The return of Rayfish Footwear?
NextNature.netRayfish Footwear was a fictional company that offered personalized sneakers crafted from genetically modified stingray leather. This online science fiction story allowed customers …
These robotic flowers are attracting bees
Kelly van GemertIt is trying its very best to stay hidden: but would you be fooled by its fake nature ? This synthetic pollinizer, a conceptual project by artist Michael Candy , may intuitively …