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Samsung SM’ART Gallery Panels aren’t just pieces of art, they’re for displaying art

, Nov 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

Samsung seems to be pumping out new devices like there's no tomorrow, but here's something new to set a precedent: SM'ART Panels specifically designed for displaying fine art. In development for five years, the high resolution LCD panels surpass standard television sets in an attempt to be a truly digital canvas. The panels are designed to display the fine details that an artist wishes to come through, such as texture and the exact color envisioned. Read The Full Story

Google Mary Blair doodle honors legendary animator

, Oct 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Though this particular Google doodle doesn't necessarily do anything all that fantastic when it comes to Web 2.0, it was and continues to be the utterly engaging artwork that Mary Blair had mastery over that continues to be the center point on this, the 100th year since she was born to this earth. If you don't recognize the style of the work that Google has replicated here, you'll certainly know the background illustrations from these classic Disney films: "Cinderella," "Peter Pan," and "Alice in Wonderland." Once again Google hits on a reminder of what was certainly a gift from beyond in this lovely artist. Read The Full Story

Wacom Inkling hands-on [Video]

, Sep 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

Wacom’s new Bamboo tablet range allows you to cut the cord between your artwork and your computer, but the company’s Inkling digital pen allows you to walk out the door and sketch anywhere. Announced last month, the chunky stylus – and its companion clip-on receiver – can turn any regular notepad into a digital art studio, not only wirelessly memorizing your drawings but throwing in pro-level features like layer support too. We grabbed some hands-on playtime with with Wacom Inkling to see if it’s really a doodler’s dream; check out our first-impressions after the cut.

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LEGO Trump International Hotel and Tower uses 65,000 pieces

, Sep 5th 2011 Discuss [1]

LEGO is cool and one of the geekier building materials out there. I like to see people build giant things out of the little bricks and marvel at the geek factor and time it took them to complete. The hardest thing I ever made form LEGO was a Technica racecar, this 10-foot tall replica of the Trump International Hotel and Tower isn’t something I'd want to mess with. Read The Full Story

Canon 24-105mm Lens Crafted of Ceramic Brings Liquid Satisfaction in a Snap

, Aug 17th 2011 Discuss [5]

If there's one single photo related to photography itself that's so meta, so amazingly ingenious it's amazing it hasn't been done a thousand times over, it's the big expensive lens turned into a coffee cup. An artist by the name of DERELIQ has decided to take this awesome idea another step back, smaller and further away in a shotglass made in the form of a Canon lens, complete with all the knobs, settings, and red ring rim you've come to expect. Read The Full Story

DIY castle sculptures are made from human hair

, Aug 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

Man is this one gross DIY project. I would never in a million years make it as a barber. Getting other people's hair on me is really gross. I would certainly not make it as an artists who uses other people's hair as a medium for creating. I just couldn't do it. I'm not sure how the artist that made the castle sculptures you see here came to use hair for building blocks. Read The Full Story

Paper craft Nyan Cat is weird and cool

, Jul 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

Not too long ago Chris Davies was having a nerdgasm over the Nyan Cat videos on YouTube getting that rainbow Nyan Cat custom load bar. We had a little chat about me not understanding the point of Nyan Cat and the best Davies could come up with was "it's a cat, in space, with a Pop Tart body." I still don’t get it. If you do get the point of Nyan Cat or if you just want to make something interesting out of paper on a boring summer day, here you go. Read The Full Story

Pioneer DJ Art Mix Tour shows off customized DJ gear

, Jul 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Pioneer makes a bunch of DJ gear and we have talked about a lot of it around here over the years. The last bit of DJ tech to hit from Pioneer was the DJM-T1 mixer with all its dials and sliders. Pioneer also has a bunch of other stuff with scratch wheels and turntables. Pioneer is showing off some of the customized gear that artists have made in a show called the Pioneer DJ Art Mix Tour. Read The Full Story

Paul the Robot draws sloppily by design

, Jun 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

If I built a robot that could do anything I wouldn't name it something boring like Paul. That's exactly what artists and designer Patrick Tresset did when he built his robotic arm that can draw people's portraits. Paul the drawing robot is made intentionally to be messy rather than uber precise like most robots want to be. The bot is made to look at your face with a camera and then draw your face with a pen in what my 6-year-old daughter would call scribble-scrabble. Read The Full Story

Epic Hot Wheels racetrack was four years in the making

, Jun 20th 2011 Discuss [5]

My son has been collecting Hot Wheels cars since he was two. He was always too busy rolling them around and crashing them into each other and walls to put the cars into his mouth. I bet today he has about 5,000 cars scattered around the house and outside in various bins and boxes. It worked out good for me since the cars are cheap and getting him one or two each week didn’t affect the budget as a video game habit would. We have also spent countless hours over the years playing with Hot Wheels tracks that were never as cool once put together as they seemed in the box. Read The Full Story

Artist makes surfboard out of 72 beer cans

, Jun 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

DIY art is cool and when it involves the ocean and beer, it may be the perfect DIY project for the summer. Artist Rich Morrison took the sort of trash generated by many summer days at the lake or beach for many folks - beer cans - and used those cans to make something pretty cool. Morrison took 72 different beer cans and used them to create a surfboard for riding the waves that actually works. At least it works for him; the board wouldn't work for me at all unless its purpose was to dump me on my head in the surf. Read The Full Story

Polish sculptor makes a room out of old computer parts

, Jun 15th 2011 Discuss [2]

I thought I had a lot of computer parts and gadgets in my closet, but I have nothing in this room. A Polish designer and sculptor has created this room out of some wooden studs and a bunch of old computer parts. Apparently, the parts inside the room come from three years worth of the artist's old computer gear. I think I might have 5-years worth of old computers around here, I might be about to build a new house. Read The Full Story
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