Via Ezra, then Matt, I’m reminded of Max Dean and Raffaello D’Andrea’s self-healing chair:
Really though, I find their earlier work, The Table: Childhood, to be the superior piece of autonomous furniture artwork (though less impressive technically).
On a more pragmatic note, Matt seems to have quelled his typical worries over an imminent robot uprising. Instead he [...]
Way back in the 20th century, before I had committed to a lifetime of study at Brown, I was foolish enough to apply early to MIT. Thankfully I was deferred and later rejected (on my 18th/golden birthday no less!), but not before paying a visit to their lovely campus and seeing the MIT museum. Even [...]
Australian performance artist Stelios Arcadious has implanted ear-shaped cartilage in his arm.
According to boing boing (and all these photos) the ear was grown in a lab using his own cells and an ear-shaped mold. A similar technique was demonstrated back in 1997 when cow cells were used to grow an ear on the back of [...]