Miriam Simun
Future Technologies That Will Not Kill You: The Most Mindbending Inventions at Ars Electronica
A solar powered 3D printer, bacteria that transmits AM radio signals, and geese on the moon -- these are just a few glimpses of the future that were on display at this year's Ars Electronica, one of biggest festivals for art and technology in the world...
Heather Dewey-Hagborg Uses DNA To Reconstruct Your Identity for Art
When was the last time you may have left a strand of your hair lying around on a subway seat or on a coffeeshop chair? You probably don’t think about this too much. But this laissez-faire attitude towards leaving around traces of ourselves (or at least...
With Lo-Tech Pink Slime Gone, Where’s the Synthetic Beef?
If pink slime is any indicator, people _really_ don't like hyper-processed meat. Still, lean finely textured beef (as 'pink slime' is known in the industry) is an example of high-tech processing being put to use to "feed the masses":http://boingboing...