Noisy Jelly

Noisy Jelly

Created by two design students at L'Ensci Les Ateliers, this is a jelly that makes noise when you touch it. Quite brilliant.

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Believe It Or Not, Headphones Can be Scary

Believe It Or Not, Headphones Can be Scary

A cautionary tale ( that goes a bit goth in parts) : what can happen when you use certain in-earphones.

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Short Documentary on The Animated GIF

Short Documentary on The Animated GIF

PBS Off Book pulls off a cool, little documentary on the animated GIF.

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We Like to Hear Our Clicks and Ticks

We Like to Hear Our Clicks and Ticks

Director, actor and motion graphic designer, Chris Crutchfield, made this neat, little video using the pervasive clicks and ticks of the iPhone, the Mac and Facebook.

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The Funktion 1 Soundsystem Explained

The Funktion 1 Soundsystem Explained

By the cockiest man alive. Tony Andrews is a brilliant man with a brilliant product. But saying that he respects his competition would be the overstatement of the millenium, which is what this interview makes blatantly clear.

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We <3 BIG: Heart Installation in New York

We <3 BIG: Heart Installation in New York

Although Valentine's Day is over and done with, the KiBiSi Partners over at BIG keep everyone all loved up with this 10 foot-tall, interactive heart installation in Times Square

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Years Modified Turntable

Years Modified Turntable

It's 'sombre, experimental Monday' at AIAIAI HQ. Here's a turntable modified to play the inner rings of a tree like a record.

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Björk Biophilia Residency in New York

Björk Biophilia Residency in New York

Continuing her exploration of the link between, human beings, nature and technology, the Icelandic songstress announces the next step in her ambitious Biophilia project: a ten-night residency in New York.

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Fragment: Dan Snaith

Fragment: Dan Snaith

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Here's the first full-length interview in our Fragments series. First up is Dan Snaith AKA Caribou talking about music, mathematics, intuitivity and DJing.

Network Awesome: The New and Exciting Television Experience of Today!

Network Awesome: The New and Exciting Television Experience of Today!

Love TV but hate most of the mindless drivel that it churns out? Network Awesome's got your back.

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Interview: Com Truise

Interview: Com Truise

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The New Jersey-based synth virtuoso tells us about 'seeing the sound before he can hear it' and his favorite sci-fi movies.

Quasi Dub Development release new iPhone App

Quasi Dub Development release new iPhone App

Rump Recordings' finest promote their latest album, 'Limousine to the Guillotine', in an attention-grabbing way.

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Interview: Jesper Kouthoofd from Teenage Engineering

The OP-1 synthesizer is now available in our webstore! Same goes for the PX-0 earphones made to match the OP-1 that we designed in collaboration with Teenage Engineering. To mark this joyous occasion, we caught up with Jesper for a chat about the OP-1 synth and the current state of music technology.

Working late at the AIAIAI HQ

Working late at the AIAIAI HQ

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Here's what happens late at night... when nobody's looking.

Good Copy, Bad Copy

Good Copy, Bad Copy

A documentary about copyright featuring Girl Talk and Dangermouse that you can never watch too many times.

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Yuri Suzuki’s Fantabulous Experimentation

Yuri Suzuki’s Fantabulous Experimentation

Royal College of Art graduate, Yuri Suzuki, is a man on a marvellously eccentric mission to reawaken our interest in the physicality of music in an age where digital media prevail. Old radios are transformed into Theremins and digital/analogue hybrid discs are played on vintage record players in the London-based artist’s lab where it seems as if everything is possible.

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Bizarre Instruments

Bizarre Instruments

An introductory guide to some of the most remarkable innovations/curiosities within music technology.

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Arne Jacobsen's House of the Future: Origins of the Flat Screen TV

Arne Jacobsen's House of the Future: Origins of the Flat Screen TV

Don’t press us on the sordid details, but we happen to be in the interesting and privileged position of sitting on documents that contain Arne Jacobsen drawings called ‘House of the Future’. Produced in 1932, a few years after the original House of the Future was designed, these documents display comprehensive drawings of what we’re quite certain has to be the world’s first flat screen TV.

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Fragments - Our Upcoming Series of Short Interviews with Creatives

We like to talk to people who know what they’re talking about.

Theater of Dreams

Theater of Dreams

It’s amazing, spine-tinglingly wonderous and more than a little bit frightening: scientists can now record the images in your head - and they’re on the verge of being able to record your dreams.

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Around the World in Sixty Seconds Time Lapse - Wow-factor = 10.0

Around the World in Sixty Seconds Time Lapse - Wow-factor = 10.0

Shot from the ISS space station as it orbits the Earth at night, this NASA-produced time lapse film takes you around the world in a minute.

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Sci-fi Greenhouse

Sci-fi Greenhouse

This may not seem that amazing at first glance. But once you dig below the surface and consider the implications and possibilities of this Nasa-approved, Japanese technology it quickly becomes another matter.

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Legowelt Releases New Album - and It's Free!

If you’re not familiar with the sounds of mysterious, Dutch, synth-freak, Danny Wolfers, AKA Legowelt, now is the time to get better acquainted. He’s just put out a tight, new album that’ll make you dance and occasionally scratch your chin. In a housey, psychedelic sort of way. Quite surprisingly, you can now download the entire album for free.

AI vs. AI = AI!

AI vs. AI = AI!

Okay, this is actually pretty interesting. Cornell Creative Machines Lab made their chatbot talk to itself and the outcome was a bizarre but somehow affecting discussion(?) about unicorns and God. And probing questions from chatbot B on whether or not chatbot A wants a real body.

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