Victorian-Era Gadgets on Display at London Museum
It's always fun to look back to see the "cutting edge" of technology from eras past. If you're in London, you'll have to stop by the British Library Business and Intellectual Property Centre, where a collection of Victorian era gadgets has gone on display. Some of the gadgets are terribly unsophisticated precursors to modern must-haves, such as the wrist-watch-styled GPS ancestor with scrolling ...
Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal wants you to shoot him. That's right. Bilal has locked himself in a studio outfitted with live Web cams for the entire month of May, and is allowing site visitors to not only spy on him 24 hours a day, but to also shoot at him with a remote-controlled paintball gun. The online art installation 'Domestic Tension' can also be seen in real life at Chicago's flatfile ...
'The Sims' is now the latest crossover from the world of video games to the world of high art. Like the I am 8-Bit exhibition, The Sims: In the Hands of Artists takes a fresh look at the world of popular video games and how we relate to them. It's part art exhibit, part student art competition (with a $12,000 grand prize for the best entry), and part multimedia extravaganza. The exhibit runs at ...








