The State of the Internet

Design studio Jess3 helps navigate the scale and weirdness of the world wide web with a smartly-charted animated video

When the prospects of digitization seem endless, design studio Jess3 recently stepped in to lend some clarity to the subject with an amusing infographic video illustrating the meteoric rise of the Internet. With 1.73 billion users, 243 million websites, 200 billion spam emails, and at least one new social networking platform cropping up every year, the interpersonal interactivity is at times difficult to fully comprehend. …

Night Lights

Auckland's Ferry Building serves as a canvas for a larger-than-life interactive light show

An interactive installation, “Night Lights” counts on bodies, hands and mobile phones to bring a massively colorful game of charades to life. Staged at Auckland’s Ferry Building, the project is the upshot of a joint effort between four creative agencies and the public. Using software made with the openFrameworks library by YesYesNo (and currently being prepped for open-source release), the team projected a sequence of …

New Sexcessories

From vibrators with a memory to the ultimate male masturbation device, a round-up of the latest high-tech sex toys

While the vibrator was invented just shortly after Edison created the electric light, it’s only recently that adult toys have begun to fully tap the power of technology. From vibrators that sync with iPods to toys purposefully designed for using in water, the industry is challenging both the way sex toys are designed and the way we think about them. Highlighted below, check out some …