Congratulations to Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud! With their project qaul.net they have won this years [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant! You can find a detailed description of the project here.

Incorporated in our clothes, digital technology can influence human communictaion maybe in the most direct way. In her project “intraInter socialite” Kristin Stransky Mallinger shows how such an integration could look like.

It does not always has to be a digitial technology….. A lot of times easy looking analog solutions can make a big diffrence, as this briquette presse developed by the Legacy Foundation shows.

Although the notion is still strong that nature and culture are to different spheres, we strat to realize now that the things are maybe more intertwined as we think. Mia Kos tries to connect different actors like objects, the environment and nature via a digital interface and thereby turns the “passive” environment in an active actor!

How does the digital taste? Pixel Bite is asking exactly this question and at the same time exploring new ways in converting and connecting the digital and the physical space.

Why not combine radio and digital technology, thought Michael Ossman and created HackRF. A new device for devoloping, testing and experimenting with radio technology which allows every computer programmer to develop new ways to interact with readio waves!

This month the project FrontlineSMS is celabrating its 6th anniversery! Reason enough to dedicate one post to this brilliant project which found an easy and cheap way of establishing communication networks even in the most rural areas of the world.
Congratiulations!

We all have heard about the problematic relation between the available data in the world wide web and search engine produced information. Inspired by this situation Phil Jones and Aharon Amir are working on a search engine which uncovers neglected and as they call it “dark” information.

A candy which is producing images in your head! The people from BetaTank submitted this project in 2010 and here you can find their description….

How you can use the internet in a rural area without energy supply? Bruce Baikie developed a solar power based solution and received a “[the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant” honorary mention; here is a detailed description of his idea…