Browsing: Art

Everyone loves the beer-fetching Willow Garage PR2 robot, as seen in our recent gallery of its greatest achievements. Evidently, it…

We talked to the Spitzer Space Telescope’s visualization team about the challenges and rewards of rendering the mission’s reams of non-visual data into something that catches the public eye. Plus: a gallery of their all-time favorite works

Art is a relative term, especially in these modern times. In its most accepted term, art is the deliberate process of arranging certain elements in such a way that appeals to the senses, trying to achieve beauty. But what these elements are and how they are arranged is up to the artist. So it shouldn’t […]

A floor-to-ceiling virtual instrument that can rock for real.

Throw together this pint-sized light-sensitive theremin for spooky sci-fi sound effects on the cheap.

The mysterious material inside hand warmers “freezes” almost instantly.