Ars Electronica 2004

Sep 3 2004, 3:27am EST | by Luigi Lugmayr

The famous Ars Electronica Festival is happening in Linz (Austria) again. The theme for this years Festival is Timeshift - The world in 25 years.

The photo on the right shows a installation called Commotion, where moving toy cars correspond with vibrations in the funny hat. When a toy car gets of track the vibration is the most intense.

More exciting than this are the Seven Mile Boots that enable users to "walk" between Internet Chat Rooms. The Boots have wireless LAN connectivity. Text to Voice software is reading text encountered in a Browser.

More details on the Ars Electronica Site. See also coverage on Wired.

Ars Electronica 2004 Future Tech Gadget Gift geek cool gadget Product Technology Future Cool smallest, Buy Gift Sale Electronics device camera player new gadget future gadget Future Technology News technology Review
Seven Mile Boots

where to buy

Buy from Amazon

What Others Say about This

Deliverance

Today is my first day rafting the Chattooga River. It is the most remote river in the southeast, and one of the best whitewater trips. In the early 1970s, it was used as the filming site of the movie . The book and movie tell the story of a trip on a rem ...
Full article at: Travel Blog More like this 1 hour ago

Things We Saw Today: Super Mario Converse

Converse Japan is planning another Super Mario Bros. collection. We approve and will collect as many stars as it takes to own them. (via Geek Sugar) Hit the jump for loads of other stuff we saw today! “Two women who met as college students in Alaska and ...
Full article at: The Mary Sue More like this 1 hour ago

Chong: Houston should have 'stuck to pot'

Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images Tommy Chong at "The Simpsons" 500th episode celebration in Hollywood, Calif., on Monday. By Access Hollywood Tommy Chong, of “Cheech & Chong” fame, says Whitney Houston would be still be alive today if she had used natur ...
Full article at: MSNBC More like this 2 hours ago

Don't miss ...

Luigi Lugmayr
Luigi is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into vibrant technology magazine.
Luigi can be contacted directly at ml@i4u.com. Luigi posts regularly on LuigiMe.com about his experience running I4U.