Just wanted to say happy new year to everyone! Thanks for tuning into Coin-Op and hope everyone has a great 2008!...

Here’s a good way to get rich and famous playing the instrument of your dreams! Free air guitars! [via]...

I saw this in a personal library the other day. It’s probably not a good idea to put these two books next to each other on a shelf....

Taking a break from the blog for the holidaze – more to come soon! Hope everyone has a good one!...

This is what happens when you try to be Jack Bauer in the age of dial-up! Hilarious.. thanks Steve for the link…...

Today I published my 100th post on the Make Blog since I started writing for them back on Sept 13th, 2007. You can read all of my posts here. Click on...

Today coin-operated.com turns 10! 10 years ago today (Dec 12, 1997) I released a 7″ record of one of my old bands on a record label I called ...

Taking a break for a bit for the holidaze… more to come next week!...

Next week I’ll be installing my projects SpeakerPhone and Alerting Infrastructure! at the BLIP! show at the Fundacion Telefonica here in Lima, P...

Yesterday while driving around Lima, we passed this Norbert Weiner Institute (the grandfather of Cybernetics). Didn’t get a chance to go inside,...

This was a funny restaurant seen around Lima. I got my sandwich with an extra slice of “eBay” and some “YouTube” dressing. Was...

Walking around Lima, Peru last night we came across this Internet/Travel Agency! Lightsabers not included with the price of a round trip ticket!...

Hope everyone out there has a happy “spooky” halloween this year! I think my favorite costume so far this year is this guy’s YouTube...

I just finished up an interview / article on Pete Froslie for Gizmodo. Pete makes really cool projects with old electronics and toys from the 80s. Abo...

Taking a break from the blog for a bit! More to come next week!...

Katherine Moriwaki and my project “Umbrella_net” is included in the book “New Media Design” by Tricia Austin and Richard Doust...

The “Vanity Ring” project by Markus Kison is an interesting take on social status. The wearer inputs their name into the software which up...

This sign was spotted in our neighborhood. Pretty funny reminder not to park in a driveway. Unless it’s an invisible car…....

This DIGG shirt makes you wish you had some friends. Kinda sad that the only way to get more DIGGS on this shirt is to get punched in the stomach, but...

Taking a break from the blog for a bit, more to come next week!...

This Sinclair Radio Watch by Dagfinn Aksnes (one of our Scrapyard Challenge Workshop participants in Glasgow) is a really cool project that reminds me...

I’ve been blogging over at the Make Blog recently so that’s why I haven’t been posting so much here. More to come next week from Sco...

I just finished up a Gizmodo Gallery on Paris-based media artists, Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen (also known as HeHe). HeHe’s work provides intri...

Here’s some information on version 1.0 of “GPS-HOG”, a new project I am working on that connects to my former project “Wifi-H...

The Space Hijackers, an artist group based in London, UK (known for their pretty cool “Circle Line Parties” on the London Tube) are having...

Thomas Edward’s project “Touch” (2007) reminds me of a homeade version of “In Touch” created at the MIT Media Lab’...

Tony Dunne at the Royal College of Art just sent me a copy of the new “Design Interactions” catalog for 2007. Pretty impressive collection...

Above is a picture of “Wild Fire Beats!”, an instrument made in our last MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop on Friday in Evanston, IL. This...

We are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop in Chicago on August 10th! Will upload some pics of finished instruments next week!...

My project, PleaseSpam.Us was written about in the French newspaper, La Liberation today. You can read the French to English translation here, or the ...

Toronto based artist Amos Latteier who I profiled for Gizmodo back in November, 2005 is building a huge kite inspired by Alexander Graham Bell’s...

Here’s some information on “PleaseSpam.Us” a new project of mine that critically examines both the mass proliferation of spam on th...

More to come next week!...

This is great – now I can save my cash every breath I take. I should have come up with this idea – damn!...

Happy 4th of July holiday to people reading in the US!...

This “Drive Tray Guitar” was built by a workshop participant during our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop held at Eyebeam in NYC last week...

Today marks 4 years of this blog being up and running. I started this blog back when I was still living in Ireland and now 4 years later after a few &...

Katherine and I are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop this Saturday, June 30th at Eyebeam here in NYC. Should be a fun day and we are havi...

Today we saw this super cool “Bird Cage PC Case Mod” built by a member of the Basurama team in Madrid. Best of all you attach the “p...

The Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA) a community art/tech group I co-founded in 2002 with Darklight founder Nicky Gogan has made a comebac...

The above video documents our Scrapyard Challenge workshop over the last week here in Madrid. It doesn’t show the final performance from the ope...

This “Messaging Shirt” (which looks like HAL on your chest) was one of the final projects built during our 5 day workshop here at Intermed...

The DarkLight Festival in Dublin (now in its 8th year and run by Nicky Gogan (who I co-founded DATA with in 2002) should be a fun event this year! The...

Pretty crazy bumpersticker I saw on a car the other day. I guess it puts the state of the world today into very clear perspective, but then again, I m...

I like this Web 2.0 Name Generator. I thought all you needed to do for this was to take a proper noun like Mickey Mouse, and make it into one word and...

Hope everyone has a good holiday weekend here in the US!...

Walking around a street fair today in Brooklyn I came across this great & ‘healthy’ item. Now all I need is some chocolate covered Tw...

“Katazukue” (Jones, 2005) I just finished up a Gizmodo Gallery on UK-based product designer / media artist, Crispin Jones. Crispin’s...

(GalleryDrive, Roy & //////////FUR////), 2007) Here’s some more info on “Gallery Drive” a new artwork collaboration between Ni...

Katherine Moriwaki and I are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop at the 6 Cities Design Festival in Stirling, Scotland on June 2nd. More inf...

This year’s FutureSonic festival (held for its 6th year in Manchester, UK from May 10-12th) examines public space and wireless interventions wit...

Taking a break from the blog right now, more to come soon….. keep feedin…....

This book, “What Computers Can’t Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence” written in 1963 by Hubert L. Dreyfus is an interesting d...

This is a pretty cool project from the WWF. It shows the average amount of Carbon Monoxide Emissions from a car over the course of a day. Interesting ...

Some pics from our latest MIDI Scrapyard Challenge from the GEL conference, NYC workshop are here. Above is a picture of the “MIDI Toaster”...

Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine’s installation, “Rain Harvester/ Greywater System“, on display now at Gallery 16 in San Francisc...

The Spanish artist group, Joystick‘s project “Thanks to the trash that has given me so much¨ offers another way of seeing the process o...

These “Coffee Wipes” have to be a pretty odd invention, especially since the company that makes them is called BUNN. Hmm, the whole thing ...

Here’s a pic of the “MIDI Fan instrument” someone made in our workshop on Saturday at the Viral:Culture event at Columbia College in...

Here in Chicago we passed by the door of a prof at Columbia College with this poster on their door. Pretty funny reminder of GW’s incompetence. ...

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(“Grafikdemo”, Roy, 2004) I just finished up a Gizmodo Gallery on Berlin-based media artist, Niklas Roy. Roy’s work is an astonishin...

In the NYC yellow-cab taxi I took back from the airport yesterday, I noticed there was a screen with a real-time GPS readout and map of our journey. P...

Here’s a low-rez version of a NEW video! we just made about our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshops! Watch it above! This video details a lot mor...

The domain Stupidr.com is for sale! Nice, now anyone can start a custom Web 2.0 site and not have to put the “r” in it, it’s already...

Finally it’s out! The long awaited book “Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists” by Ben Fry and Casey R...

Martin Bonadeo’s “Mobius Display” (see video above) “confronts the spectator with the impossibility of contemplating all the i...

Rania Ho’s “Modem” video is a great reminder of Internet connectivity from the not-so-distant past! Check out the video above –...

This news piece from Canada’s CBC is a great document of the beginning of the “Internet” as a global phenomenon from the early 90s. ...

“Distance Lab” has launched in northern Scotland! This lab was founded by Stefan Agamanolis who ran the “Human Connectedness” ...

I finally put up this video for my Forward Compatible project, a parasitic object attached to a Wi-Fi or fixed network router. The device monitors net...

The 56K Modem Emulator “brings the old-skool joys of the dial-up connection to the modern day broadband user. Happiness is a squeaky analog conn...

This site lets you take a test to calculate how “Nerdy” you are! Pretty funny, I ranked a “Low Ranking Nerd. Definitely a nerd but l...

I just finished up an interview / article with German artist, Martin Frey for Gizmodo. Read it here!...

I finally got around to putting up this video I made a while back – break dancing meets scientific equations! Enjoy!...

German artist Aram Bartholl did a “World of Warcraft” performance in public space where he had his name follow him over his head. Watch th...

Here’s a photo from the opening of the “Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone” show at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. I was sh...

Due to an overload of activity the last few days, the comment system is broken. Hopefully I’ll get this fixed soon, thanks for your patience....

Here’s some information on version 1.0 of “Wifi-Liberator”, a new project I am launching that fits into the larger theme of “p...

Today’s my birthday – i turn —-! Another year gone by – pretty nuts.....

I just finished up this Gizmodo Gallery on German artist / architect / designer Tobi Schneidler and his networked appliances and living spaces. Read t...

Above is a picture of the “MIDI Hoover” by David Bernard of Glasgow’s Pointless Creations. Bernard was the musical guest last week a...

This t-shirt is a nice way of selling yourself to the corporate crowd while maintaining your anonymity....

These hands were sticking out of the beach here in Uruguay. It’s not clear who the artist was who made them, but they were a pretty impressive t...

I’ll be back online sooooooooooooooooooon – hope everyone had a good new years and more to come…. (just wanted to refresh the calend...

Hope everyone has a great new year! All the best in 2007!...

Katherine Moriwaki and I are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop twice in Scotland in January 2007 (next month!) in two different locations....

We saw this inflatable bear outside an electronics shop today. Obviously someone who works there liked the SNL video too much and made the bear part o...

After all of the hoopla about the SNL Digital Short “D*ck In a Box” that aired last Saturday night, we were driving around yesterday and s...

Hope everyone has a good holiday! Posting on here will be minimal over the holidays as I’ll be running around like everyone else… still &#...

This sign was seen on a plant in a Montreal restaurant. I guess the owners were sick of getting amazed people wondering how their “plastic”...

Here’s the video of the “Cell Phone A-Life performance” I helped create at Eyebeam last October with Usman Haque and Karmen Franinov...

Here’s a pic from the “A-Life” cell phone performance I did last October with Usman Haque and Karmen Franinovic at the Architecture ...

This Nixie tube watch has the best batteries out there. Krusty the clown make’s batteries? I guess there’s nothing in the Simpsons Empire ...

I’m reblogging over at Eyebeam the next week as well, and with the holidaze coming up, I won’t be posting here too much until 2007 (althou...

We saw this ad for “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” on the roof of a taxi in Manhattan today. Pretty nice unplanned reference between NYC t...

The news about Tower Records filing for bankruptcy is nothing new, but I noticed this sign in their window walking by their store today and it’s...