Music Interview: Sarah Angliss of Spacedog
Lifelike robots, Derren Brown and strange instruments: we talk to the woman behind the spooky science band Spacedog.
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Week In Geek: 28 November-4 December 2011
London events for people with curious minds.
In Pictures: Hyper Japan @ Olympia 2
Photos from the celebration of Japanese culture happening this weekend.
Preview: Kinetica Art Fair 2011
The Kinetica Art Fair is back with a new theme: The Evolution of Consciousness. Expect robots, holograms and surreal sculptures.
In Pictures: Robot Army Takes Over Trafalgar Square
Outrace, the major installation at Trafalgar Square for this year’s London Design Festival, was switched on last night. Designed by Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar, the installation consists of eight robotic arms, borrowed from the Audi production line, and each fitted with a powerful light …
Camden Fringe Review: Hope For Robots @ Etcetera
William Stopha William Stopha is a beatboxing teacher with a head full of poetry, a bag full of gadgetry and an awesome red robot with a story to tell. Albertoh (silent ‘h’) the Robot is Stopha’s co-star, a cute metaphor for the human processed by …
In Pictures: Kinetica Art Fair
With a day that started off with a talk from East London collective ‘Robots and Avatars‘ where we learned about the Uncanny Valley, EmotionA.I, pogoing robots and the sheer scope of what the future holds for our virtual selves and the mechanical company we’ll be …
Preview – Kinetica Art Fair 2010
Once again, P3, the cavernous underground art space at the University of Westminster, will be transformed into a vision of the future as the 2nd Kinetica Art Fair 2010 strides into town. Expect to come face to face with holographic light beings and robots who …
London Fire Brigade Recruit Robots
Remember Inferno, the trusty Autobot who, for some reason, transformed from a giant mechanoid into a fire engine? Well, he’s finally been fielded by the London Fire Brigade (albeit without the mechanoid form, pity). Defence technology company QinetiQ have developed a range of fire fighting …
Free Robots Here
Sci-art fusions float our boat. Remember the dancing robot? So imagine our anorak rousing excitement that Kinetica Art Fair opens in London a week on Friday. It’s the first of its kind in the UK, featuring “carnivorous lampshades, pole dancing robots, man-animal-machine hybrids, mechanical writing …
Robo-Chemist’s Efforts Thwarted
Hi-tech innovations in Streatham self care have been repeatedly ruined by smash and grab thieves taking advantage of the unbarricaded shopfront of their local pharmacist having been lured by the toilet requisite goodies therein. Nazim Ali recently installed a touch screen system for local people …
