The idea is spreading… This guy turned his car into a roving Wifi Hotspot that broadcasts a signal whereever he drives and allows people to conn...

The Pedestrian Levitation project “puts human movement in a virtual world. The work analyses pedestrians on the crossroad of the Chaussée de ...

The IMC EXPO is going on in NYC now. Reading this quote on the website made me laugh: “If you’re looking to introduce a new technology, pr...

San Fran’s ParkScan program outfits ordinary citizens with wireless PDAs, online maps of local parks, and surveys for them to report on health a...

Not that I play guitar (I’m a drummer), but if I did I might look into being cheesy enough to get one of these JamPod attachments for the iPod t...

This story of a woman killed here in NYC after stepping into the street and getting hit by and ambulance is pretty crazy. Did she not hear the sirens?...

It’s always sad to see the weekend go, but i guess it just makes you anticipate the next one on the way. We checked out Steven Chow’s Kung...

Tonite, Kaki and I are giving talks at ITP about our work and projects. It will be nice to go back to the school we both graduated from and see what t...

Yesterday we took a lot of old, outdated computer equipment I had in storage, over to the “Recycle Your Electronics” day in Park Slope. Th...

“Cook it up USB style” I really need to do this to my iPod now! Not to mention get these great new products – the iCopulate for your...

This new show on Fox about the vegetative Terry Shiavo makes me wonder whats next for reality TV? It’s about as crazy as Kumawar that lets you &...

Its cool that SMS is finally catching on in the US. The fact that Google has set up a new service that allows people to send SMS to get things like mo...

Reliving the 80s never felt so good to waste time with this 80s Arcade Game site! All the games are here like Moon Patrol, Pac Man, Frogger, even Simo...

A recent article in Slashdot about the new Apple Powerbook motion sensors reminds me of an old project of mine from 2001 called LiveWindow (check out ...

The Talks we gave at UCLA about our work are available in streaming real media from the UCLA website. Check them out.....

The Playing the Past conference in Florida is happening right now! – looks pretty cool – especially the keynote by Mary Flanagan and the t...

Usman Haque’s Floatables project is a mobile shield against all technological signals, waves, radiation, data, etc.. that permeates dense urban ...

Have you ever been close to a wifi network but havent been able to get a consistent signal? This seems to happen to me all the time. With these cool Q...

Kaki and I are are heading west for a few weeks to California – LA and SF. We are giving a few talks while there – one at USC‘s inte...

Spending more time in doctors office waiting rooms, I snapped a pic of this sign that I think means “no mobile phones or radios” although ...

Another scalding article about Media Lab Europe surfaced in the Irish Times this week. It mentions that the conditions were “hell-like” wo...

Kaki and I are talking about our work at Parsons School of Design tonite for the Jihui Salon. You can check out the webcast if you can’t make it...

After leaving Ireland last December, I’m finding out lot of good things I missed when I lived there. Today I found out about this great search e...

Been checking out Google’s Video Search recently.. Seems like a good tool for finding video clips online, but also seems a bit pointless because...

Kaki and I gave a talk today at Eyebeam on our UMBRELLA.net project. The project is still going strong – just on a little bit of a hiatus recent...

Went to Christo’s “The Gates” in Central park this past weekend. It was pretty spectacular to see all of the 7500 gates draped aroun...

The RSS Feed for this blog is different now.. please update the feed in your readers… The link for the new feed is on the bottom left side of th...

Got some more stuff for our new apt today and its starting to feel even more homey by the minute – very nice. I also had a visual field test whi...

Today Kaki and I gave talks about our work at the Queens Museum of Art – for an event called Ciudad Transmobil – which was mainly about mo...

Thanks so much to my old high school friend Ernesto for helping me get this blog back up and running! I’ll be back here for the next year or mor...

I might be moving servers in the next week or so, so this blog could be in jeopardy for a few days and possibly go offline… Don’t worry, i...

Well my talk from Ars Electronica (scroll down for my name) this Aug/Sept is now online so if you missed me in Austria, you can watch it through Windo...

Well I am now out of the hospital for the 2nd time! Recovery is getting faster.. nice! This time aound was a lot better than the last time which prett...

Well I am back in the hospital now after having more strange feelings (twinges) and not being able to sleep. Now I’m in a private room in a diff...

Since I fell ill, I’ve spent a few (unpleasant) hours in hospital emergency rooms waiting for doctors (and probably will spend more hours in the...

Today, on a suggestion from my GP, I went to the pool to try and do some excersizes to build back the muscles I lost while in the Hospital. Walking in...

Last nite I had enough energy (finally!) to go out for a bit, and we went to the opening of the Darklight Digital Film Festival and saw some great hip...

Today was more mellowed out. Met with a new GP today who was very cool and borrowed a video camera so that we could edit the UmbrellaNET video for Dar...

Digital Art Afficionado and Guru – Steve Dietz – did a great job of documenting the Villette Numerique which recently happened in Paris. I...

Today we checked out the show “Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation: Contemporary Art From China” which is featured at the Irish Museum o...

Today my cousin, Rosa arrived from the US to hang out and help me out with my recovery! Excellent to have more family here! I went to the hospital for...

Today was pretty chilled out – walking around Dublin with my mom and Kaki and dropping off some gifts to the nurses at the hospital who took car...

Well I’m oficially in recovery now, out of the hospital, taking it easy and trying to get back into normal life. Today my mom and katherine and ...

Well I am officially discharged from the hospital now (thank tha lord! – I’m outta there!)… It feels so good to be home for good fin...

I’m home for a bit, with Kaki and my sister, Nicole who came here from NYC to help me recover! Awesome to have family here. My recovery is going...

Well – I’m back and forth from the hospital now after having a brain hemorhhage and an AVM in my brain…. I’m in full recovery ...

Last year at this time I was in Newcastle, Australia at the ElectroFringe festival! This year’s event, titled “Replicate, Automate, Infilt...

NICEBOTS are small wooden robots that drive around and learn based on situations and obstacles they encounter. They are part of an open atelier worksh...

The Virus Mapping Tool (pictured) is one of several projects in the newly touring “virus-art” show, “The Aesthetics of Computer Viru...

PCworld reports (PCWorld??? what the heck) that Ireland is cracking down on Internet scams! Umm, Ireland (where I am currently living) is the worst &#...

I just uploaded some pictures I took at ArtBots this weekend! Overall it was a great show with lots of cool projects! My pics kind bias my own piece s...

The Villette Numerique media arts festival opens tonite in Paris! Featured in this huge show includes “Listening Post” by Ben Rubin and Ma...

New York 2050 is a project for the collective vision and future scenarios of how NYC will be in 50 years. “NewYork2050 seeks to facilitate a pub...

Back to Dubs today to setup and test out UMBRELLA.net which makes its debut in NYC for Spectropolis, a 3 day wireless in the park event at City Hall P...

Today ArtBots opened in NYC. I’m here running a workshop where 100 people can build my DrawBot robots (made from markers, plastic cups, and old ...

Sign up to ride through San Francisco on your bike in inflatable suits at Aeolian Ride, a public performance and bike event by NYC artist, Jessica Fin...

Made it to NYC yesterday and had some time to check out the “Passage of Mirage” show at the Chelsea Art Museum (which I hadn’t been ...

Looks like Mobile Bristol’s Jukola is a direct rip-off (with one or two changes) to Mark Argo and Ahmi Wolfe’s Bass Station project. I can...

Ever wanted to listen to the hurricanes pummeling the western hemisphere? Well thanks to NY-based artist Andrea Polli’s project, “Atmosphe...

Just wanted to give a moment of silence for Sept 11 anniversary....

Next time you get lost, you can “feel” your way home. The ActiveBelt, tracks your position with GPS, and directs you to your destination w...

Yesterday’s keynote by Janet Abrams of the Design Institute was a smack in the face to many UBICOMP attendees when she started asking questions ...

We finally escaped Ars Electronica (just kidding – it was great!) and are now at UBICOMP in Nottingham, UK where we are participating in a works...

Demoscene is a new book about the computer hacker revolution of the 1980s. “The demoscene spawned a group of people that have worked in or start...

Yes, even projects at Ars Electronica crash! (see picture) This is Sur La Table by Khan Osman which streamed colors from fruit placed on a table (I as...

Yesterday at Ars was the DISRUPTION panel I moderated – which went really well! Some very interesting presentations including Joi Ito speaking a...

We’ve arrived here at Ars Electronica 2004 in Linz, Austria! So far the festival has been very active – lots of presentations, exhibition ...

Matt Gardiner’s Oribotics are simple robotic sculptures that fold origami shapes and and animate light patterns. Some interesting videos on the ...

As the RNC kicks off in NYC, another mass protest is getting underway across the city. The unemployment line is a symbolic line of people representing...

The UMBRELLA.net website is now updated and looks much better! It features an events page that lists all of the upcoming events where the project will...

The trend in pervasive gaming these days seems to push everything onto the STREETS. If it’s not in your face on the sidewalk, then why do it. Ta...

TAYTO chip – the ghetto chip! TAYTO is the only potato chip made in a castle in Northern Ireland and they have the best animated factory tour I ...

Above is a picture from the project “Symphony for Dot-Matrix Printers, done in 1999 by the Montreal based artist group The User and was shown at...

Heading to Ars Electronica next week to speak on a panel for the TIMESHIFT symposium. Our topic is “DISRUPTION” and in my talk I’ll ...

So you spend your whole life training for a sporting event, you compete, and wow! you actually win something! So you have a medal ceremony and you cry...

You’ve seen it in WIRED magazine and now it’s here at coin-op! Yes the Yellow Arrow project is making waves in NYC, LA, Chi town, and San ...

Floating Islands is a sound-light-installation originally deployed on Berlin’s river Spree that consists of 50 vacuum cleaners, plastic bottles ...

I bought this candy bar in Helsinki because I wanted to eat something that was called something it represents. Not that I pig out on candy bars all th...

The WavePillow is a pillow that alerts surfers to the type of waves that are present on the beach in the morning. This way they can know whether to no...

Made it to Helsinki after missing our ferry and only getting about 3 hours of sleep. Over the course of ISEA 2004 I think we’ve gotten about 20 ...

Induction House by Aether Architecture “is a 5300 cm-pixel resolution 3d screen mounted in a 300X300X600 cm self-tensioned structure for mapping...

Today Kaki and I led the DIY Wearable Challenge workshop here in Tallinn, Estonia at the Estonian Academy of Arts! It went really well with some great...

Kaki and I head to ISEA today to lead two workshops called DIY Wearable Challenge. Katherine will also be exhibiting her wearable projects, Inside/Out...

I just updated my reports page with a new report from DIS 2004 in Boston! Read up!...

Researcher Andruid Kearne’s latest entry into the ACM Hypertext Conference has been censored by the conference chairs! ” Kerne created the...

This suit makes you feel old. “The Third Age Suit restricts the mobility of the wearer to give them an appreciation of what it is like for patie...

This month’s Rebublican National Convention (RNC) will see a new kind of activist! With Moport, a site for generating and creating mobile phone ...

IM watching is a nice experiment in making a digital record of something you do anyways – which is know when your buddies are on and offline. Si...

1. Interesting graph of Bush’s approval rating vs. the terror alerts that were declared. A steady decline since 9/11. 2. Some press in the New Y...

The London collective, Greyworld, have just completed their latest public display project called The Source. The Source is an eight storey high kineti...

Me! I’m here in NYC for a few days hanging out and testing UMBRELLA.net – where it will be shown for the first time during the Spectropoli...

Here at the DIS 2004 we were trying to find out how to get on the Wifi network so we began to use the ad-hoc network function of our wireless cards to...

Today, in conjunction with the US Department of Art & Technology, I launched my newest project, the Homeland Insecurity Advisory System. The Home...

Made it to Boston, where I will be speaking on panel called “Design for Hackability” at the Designing Interactive Systems conference! Toda...

I just (secretly) got a copy of the “banned words” from Dragon Systems’ “Naturally Speaking” speech to text software. It...

Cool stuff from O’Reilly, a magazine for tech projects called Make. Finally a magazine for wanna-be hackers and tinkerers! From their blurb: ...

Yesterday, we had 5 computers sharing Wi-Fi from a dial-up connection! Basically we created the worlds slowest wireless internet cafe! Therefore this ...

“? fish, plant, rack ? allows the navigational electrical discharges of the virtually blind elephant fish ?gnathonemus petersi? to instruct the ...

This is a great cross between late 90s net.art and early 2000’s office cubicle boredom. Oh and did I mention that this rules....

Heading to Boston on Weds to speak at a panel called “Design for Hackability” the Designing Interactive Systems conference! Should be a fu...

Thanks to some good advice, I just changed this site so that the blog is the front page at coin-operated.com. I hope this works and there will be a fe...

RSG and BEIGE‘s newest unusable hack is a new file compression system called Total Asshole Compression (TAC). Drag and drop a file into TAC and ...

(Nathaniel Stern presents his work) Last nite we had the 19th installment of DATA! Here is a picture of presenter Nathaniel Stern talking about his wo...

Test your courage with this one-way mirror public toilet, a nice piece by LA-based artist Monica Bonvicini. I don’t know if I would use it but I...

(image from DorkBot event) Heading to Barcelona today where Kaki and I will be speaking at Dorkbot Barcelona on the 17th! Will add some pics to this p...

Out of town for the next week will get back to this when I return! Meanwhile this interview with Frank Chu, leader of the Zegnatronic Rocket Society i...

I love it when people find ways around prize giveaways! Jesse Perry’s iTunes Countdown for Mac and PC sticks a counter in the menu bar showing h...

Is it just me, or is the new Beastie Boys album wanna-be political?. I don’t remember these doods rapping about politics before, but with lyrics...

Lots more social BlueTooth apps cropping up. BlueMonger is like Netstumbler for your mobile phone, telling you who is around you but then uploading th...

Today is Katherine’s bday! She shares a b-day with Howard Rheingold, Michelle Kwan, Ringo Starr, and lots more people!...

Anne-Marie Schleiner’s new urban gaming project, O.U.T., pits online gaming with urban graffiti on the streets of NYC during the Republican Nati...

The ERGODEX DX1 is a keyboard or game controller you can completely configure on your own. Imagine taking the keys off your keyboard and placing them ...

Happy 4th of July holiday to everyone back home! We miss you guys!...

Been updating work on our UMBRELLA.net project. On thursday we took the PocketPC application on field trials with 3 devices to check radio range and t...

Usman Haque’s Sky Ear is back in action after it was cancelled last May due to inclement weather. The first date is next week! “Dates have...

Kaki’s posts about all of the racism she has experienced in Dublin (esp. today and throughout the past 2 years) shows how messed up this country...