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Robotic “For Rent” Sign Stalks Passersby

Here’s a pragmatic-ish application for esoteric tech art techniques: À LOUER/FOR RENT, by self-described “inventor of useless things” Niklas Roy. The piece, created for Éspace [IM] Média, a Canadian media art festival, features an “Á Louer” (yes, that’s “For Rent” to you) sign installed in an abandoned-looking storefront. Whenever a pedestrian walked by, the sign would follow them, […]

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Check Out These Fully Functional Cardboard Computers

Niklas Roy, a professor at art university in Germany (where else?) recently challenged his students to create functional computing systems using nothing more than cardboard, welding wire, glue, rope, rulers and cutting knifes. To prove it could be done, Roy also created a cardboard computer himself–the ingenious plotting machine in the above video. Roy’s students submitted […]

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