NAME: Modern Fossils

AUTHOR: American artist Christopher Locke

DESCRIPTION: Contemporary artifacts as they might be found in millions of years. Game Boy, PS1 controller or Super Nintendo have become fossils, set in stone.

AMUSEMENT RATING: 2/5. Christopher Locke’s sculptures are trying to prove how technologies that were once so new and modern can become out-of-date in the blink of an eye. We’re not going to disagree with him, but it kinda is a bland statement. Isn’t technology supposed to become dated anyway? And not to be Mr. Smarty Pants, but I don’t think plastic turns into stone over the years…

Source: Thaeger

NAME: 8-bit popup cards

AUTHOR: Kate from mini eco, an arts & crafts website

DESCRIPTION: Surprise your friends and send them a pixelated space invader or skull popup card!

AMUSEMENT RATING: 4/5 Once in a while, you might feel the need to put down your controller and reconnect with the real world. What about a nice craft project? These 8-bit popup cards are made for you. They are the best of both worlds: a very sweet and cute old school feel, and the pixel creatures you love to shoot. Download the templates on the website and let’s get started!

Source: Buzzfeed

NAME: 1-bit Camera

AUTHOR: David Lindecratz

DESCRIPTION: Transform your iPhone in a 1-bit camera. You can either turn it into a Macintosh OS camera or, even better a Game Boy Camera.

LOCATION: Available on the App Store for $0.99

AMUSEMENT RATING: 5/5 Who cares for millions of pixels and colors when you can have a Game Boy Camera in your iPhone. I remember running to the store the first day the Game Boy Camera was out. I was so happy to get my hands on such a technologically-advanced work of art. Nostalgia apps are more than often kinda dumb, but snapping a grainy b&w picture is definitely priceless.

Source: Neatorama

NAME: iDermal

AUTHOR: Dave Hurban from Dynasty Tattoo in Jersey

DESCRIPTION: Attach your iPod Nano on your wrist thanks to four little magnets. It can’t get simpler than that. And since Dave Hurban thought of everything, the magnets are too small to be seen by a metal detector.

AMUSEMENT RATING: 4/5 All the die hard Apple fans can rejoice. They will no longer need a wrist band that might hide the perfect design of their iPod Nano. iDermal let you live your passion free of any strings. Next step, my iPhone on my arm. I’m sure it can fit.

Source: Bitrebels

A pixel art tribute to the geek world.

Source: Retronator

Source: The Voder

Dev Harlan is a multidisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice combines the physical and the virtual with the use of sculptures, light and projections.

Source: Dev Harlan

Artist Nick Gentry made these paintings using contributed artefacts and materials. As he states, his art is influenced by the development of consumerism, technology and cyberculture in society, with a distinctive focus on obsolete media.

Source: Nick Gentry

When Kinect’s users and Assassin’s Creed fans are humbled by an April fool.

Source: Ubergizmo

NAME: Life Below The Surface - An Underwater Art Exhibition

AUTHOR: Digital artist and advertising photographer Andreas Franke

LOCATION: Key West, USA

DESCRIPTION: Divers can benefit from a very special experience and find a package of 12 digitally made images placed on the artificial reef General Hoyt S. Vandenberg located 100 feet below sealevel and approximately seven miles south of Key West, USA.

AMUSEMENT RATING: 5/5. Instead of watching Titanic 3D, dive into the ocean for a surrealistic meeting with digital ghosts !

Source: Andreas Franke

NAME: A face scanning software – a facial recognition software

AUTHOR: face.com

DESCRIPTION: Face.com develops facial recognition softwares. It can pinpoint your age based on your face. It can guess your gender, your mood and so on.

AMUSEMENT RATING: 1/5.  If you are not sure that your best friend is really a man or a girl, try this app and find out the truth !

Source: Face.com

According to Nacho Ormaechea with his new work “Street Memories”, we are more than a body…

Source: AA13

Digital artist INSA made you play with pin up girls for one night at his voyeuristic exhibition in the Lodonewcastle Project Space (28 Redchurch St in London). Enjoy!

Boston dynamics created a robot able to perform 29 feet jumps…

Source: Bostondynamics

Source: Surrogate Self

NAME: Containment – Zombie puzzle game

AUTHOR: Bootsnake Games

DESCRIPTION: Containment is a puzzle game in which you have to stop a pandemic transforming all the population into zombies. Instead of building lines and columns with colored stones, you will be using characters: servicemen (green), policemen (blue), punks (yellow) and survivors (pink)…  There are a lot of infiltrated zombies which contaminate all the grid. It is necessary to you to surround them as quickly as possible with survivors of the same color who can shoot all these living dead. It is also possible to use items (cocktel molotov, grenades, etc.) or to act on the environment (It’s cool to explode some gasoline !)

LOCATION: This game is available on STEAM or Ipad for 3,99€.

AMUSEMENT RATING: 5/5. A zombie game where you must use your brain instead of your chopper… What an idea!

Digital artists Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer created “unnamed soundsculpure” using a Kinect. The device captures the dancer’s moves and the ambiant sound to generate moving sculptures.

Source: Daniel Franke

NAME: The E-Paper – A flexible screen.

AUTHOR: LG

DESCRIPTION: The LG’s E-Paper is a 6 inches flexible monochrome screen with a definition of 1024×768. Like books that we read on E-book, it will soon be possible to read newspaper on E-Paper and keep the impression of a sheet which we can fold.

LOCATION: E-Paper should be buyable in April.

AMUSEMENT RATING: 2/5. BE acraeful to not fold it more than 40° if you don’t want to break your newspaper…

Source: SLASHGEAR

A flying house? Some people like Timon Sager always try to turn Final Fantasy and its Prima Vista into real concepts.

Source: YANKO DESIGN

What about wasting your time to create an IRL Portal’s gun?

Source: KOTAKU