Yeah, but does it move me?
Air pollution is terrible and in some cities, it’s just overwhelming. It’s mostly caused by car exhaust in cities that have very high populations and older model cars. Now you can use that nasty pollution to make art with the AIR-INK Markers, the art tools made from air pollution.
When was the last time you looked a clock? Most of us keep time with our smartphones because they’re easy and always at hand but they fail at being decorative, our smartphones, not actual clocks as the ETCH Clock proves. This clock looks as if the time is carved right into the face.
Facial recognition is something that is spreading through our technology. Facebook uses it to make tagging photos easier, surveillance technology uses it to track people. If you’re worried about your privacy, the Hyperface Project may put you at ease, in theory.
Wood burning a great way to make art or personalize wooden pieces. There are lots of tools you can buy that can help you learn the practice or you can skip all that, go outside and harness the power of the sun. Febo is solar powered (hehe) wood burner that you can use to make, well anything you want.
You probably took a thousand pictures last weekend and will likely take a thousand more this weekend. Why not do a little something different with them? Download the Prisma app and turn them into almost recognizable works of art.
Mostly outdated technology ends up in a landfill but sometimes they become cool art installations with the help of a little bit of modern technology. In this case, an old payphone became a boombox that will play some of the hottest jams from the 90s because life is wonderful that way.
Sometimes you see a product and don’t know how long you survived without having it in your life. The Fondoodler is that product for me. If you like crafting and food and want to put them together, the Fondoodler will combine your dreams into a delicious reality.
So, in 2016, the art on our game boxes is generally just grabbed from the game. There’s no real difference between what we see on the package and what we interact with on the disc (and if there is, that’s generally a problem). That wasn’t always the case, back in the day you had to imagine what the characters looked like, based on the box. Art of ATARI is the book that collects all that iconic art into one place.
Art speaks to the soul. Whether graffiti is art and does the same is up for debate in many circles. That being said, SprayPrinter lets you use spray paint, the graffiti artists’ choice since forever, to create pixel perfect art, even if you have no artistic bones in your body.
We don’t think about video games and their place in history as much more than nostalgia machines. But they’re more than that, they playable creative expressions and we’re losing them to the sands of time. The Video Game History Foundation is the organization that wants to save them.
Color matching is so important. You don’t want to buy a shirt thinking it goes with a pair of shoes or a tie perfectly only to find out that you were super, duper wrong. The Color Muse scans objects so that you identify the shade for all your shopping needs.
End and coffee tables are really useful things to have but generally people don’t see them as more than a place to put your coffee down on. The Sisyphus Kinetic Art Table is one you won’t want to clutter with books and drinks because it is an ever changing thing of beauty.
You may not be a YouTube star but chances are, you’ve messed around with your phone’s video camera once or twice. Even if you’re not going to turn into a great director, you can still have some fun making short movies. Magic Video is the new video editing app that adds effects to your phone’s captured movies.
You’ve likely seen art that it is created with a variety of dots. From far away, it looks like it’s one connected piece but up close, it’s a tiny bunch of dots. If you’re not known for your tight artistic skill, don’t worry, there’s a pen that will do it for you. DotsPen makes the stippling for you.
We’re losing touch with the natural world and if you live in an urban area, you might go weeks without seeing more than a patch of dusty grass and a tree struggling to grow in its too small concrete plot. If you can’t make a trip to the forest, remind yourself that there is a world full of life beyond the concrete with the Mushroom Lamp.
