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“Hunting Trophies” is a project, created by France Cadet, showing a collection of eleven hunting trophies hung on the wall. These trophies are similar to those that hunters could exhibit proudly in their living room but here they are chests of robots. Each robot has its own internal program which reacts with its outside environment thanks to its infrared sensor place on its chest. Thus they can detect the presence of one or more persons, but also their movements.
When a viewer is in front of this collection of robot species, the trophies are inactive. Their eyes are turned off, their head held high are still. But when a viewer approaches, the robots start to react. They turn their heads in his direction, their eyes light up, their mouths half-open they start growling.The robots are able to eye the nearby person and turn their head in his direction. If we come closer the robot suddenly starts to growl and then it becomes more and more aggressive if we are too close. When a person will walk fast facing this wall of trophies, a chain reaction will emerge such as a wave of protestation following his walk. The robots will remain calm when the room will be quiet or when people will stop moving.
Depending on the public activity the robots will be more or less active and aggressive because it is the point, showing their anger because they have been tracked, chased, killed cut up and exhibited as decorative icons.

A computer exerts less energy displaying a black screen than it does with a white screen. A black Google would conserve a significant amount of energy if multiplied by the number of searches conducted on Google each day. Blackle is green!

The Wind Shaped Pavilion is a design proposal for a large fabric structure that can be used as a public or private pavilion. As a lightweight fabric structure, the wind slowly and randomly rotates each of the six segments around a central open support frame. This continually alters the shape of the pavilion, while at the same time generating electrical power for its nighttime illumination…Great alternative for the future!

L’île de beauté is the other name for that splendid French island where I’ll be for the coming ten days. It has quiet a history and character. Napoleon was their most notorious native before his expansion needs.
The good thing is: It has been and is still preserved from ugly mass tourism thanks to a very protective (and independent) mindset from the Corsicans. Let’s tell it this way, they own their land and even if you think it’s yours and you paid for it, they still own it in a certain way. So if you don’t agree to their rules they will dynamite your house with some of their local tnt…boom boom! Off I am

This is cool. Tonight it’ll be for me some songbirds with a hint of chimes…

BMW South-Africa used Theo Jansen’s fantastic wind-powered sculptures in their latest commercial for defining innovation but let’s be clear on this one, the innovation comes from Theo!

This is the work of Geoffrey Cottenceau, as his thesis work at Ecal.ch, a Swiss design school located in Lausanne. Nuff said…

The Linux user group from Oregon University planned it under two weeks and completed it under 24 hours, the crop circle had a final diameter of 220 feet. They constructed the circle in an oat field near Amity, Oregon, where it was completely invisible from the road but unmistakable from the sky…Foxy phone home!