-
Creating the Nebula, Part 4: Overcoming Obstacles to Make 'Effortless' Art
Wired.com was invited to document the birth of a 12,000-pound kinetic sculpture that pushes the limits of art and engineering. Watch the final installment in a four-part interactive video series from our award-winning video team.
-
Found Contest: Imagine the Future of Doorbells
This month, imagine the future of doorbells. What will replace the simple ding dong or buzzer? Biometric facial scanners to help you dodge door to door salesman? Or will location-based apps make them totally irrelevant, because you always know who's coming?
-
Found: Sporting Event of the Future
Take a gander at the 2022 Robot Rugby World Cup. Team Google is up -- the billions of dollars they poured into AI-tackling algorithms really paid off in the last seconds of this game.
-
IPad Game Offers Creative Revenue for Photog Geddes
Photographer Anne Geddes has found a novel way to make money from her photos: the game section in Apple's App Store. For just 99 cents you can play through 60 levels of Anne Geddes MatchUp, a memory game for the iPad that features photographs from her latest book Beginnings. The book is also available as an e-book.
-
Creating the Nebula, Part 3: Pushing Bolts, Cables and Crew to Their Limits
Wired.com was invited to document the birth of a 12,000-pound kinetic sculpture that pushes the limits of art and engineering. Watch the third installment in a four-part interactive video series from our award-winning video team.
-
Artist Gives Nature the 8-Bit Treatment
Texas sculptor Shawn Smith uses hundreds of tiny wooden blocks to transform images of vultures and other creatures into real-life versions of the 8-bit artwork more commonly seen in games such as Space Invaders and Tetris.
-
Graphics Algorithm Becomes 8-Bit Vector Perfecter
A pair of computer science researchers have come up with an algorithm that can take a low-resolution piece of pixel art and upscale it accurately to vector graphics. Imagine seeing SNES games upscaled to HD resolution for the Wii 2.
-
You're No Ansel Adams: MIT Finds Landscape Photos Forgettable
According to a recent study, photos with people in them are more likely to stick in the viewer's memory after seeing a series of photos. Researchers at MIT have created a computer algorithm to track which photos people remembered most, and they've found that portraits tend to trump landscapes in memorability.
-
'Make Your Franklin' Project Mints Modded $100 Bills
A new online project called Make Your Franklin calls on artists and designers to put their own creative stamp on the $100 bill. See a gallery of some of the coolest sci-fi and comics-inspired contributions.
-
Video — Creating the Nebula, Part 2: Installing Massive Nebula Sculpture Is Monstrous Undertaking
Wired.com was invited to document the birth of a 12,000-pound kinetic sculpture that pushes the limits of art and engineering. Watch the second installment in a four-part interactive video series from our award-winning video team.
|
Art & Culture