Camphor, saltpeter and sal ammoniac sealed in alcohol, growing crystals a Royal Navy admiral swore could read the coming storm. Science calls it a slow thermometer, and two centuries of windowsills have disagreed.
Hiroshi Ishii's Tangible Media Group is building communication channels with the dead. Not AI chatbots. Antique objects that hold the physical traces of people who once touched them.
Sabrina Merayo Nuñez grows lamps from algae and medieval paint recipes. They pulse when you walk up to them.
A modder took a 1995 Casio day planner and rebuilt the entire inside while leaving the outside untouched. The instinct here is the opposite of the cyberdeck: don't invent a new form for the silicon, find one that already knows what it wants to be.
Atsuhiko Misawa and Koji Tanada share KAAT's first-ever sculpture show, carving deer and children from single blocks of camphor wood. The technique is older than most countries. The argument is current.
Two e-ink screens, a hinge, and six centuries of book design. Diptyx is an open-source reader that closes like a codex and needs no account, no cloud, no case.
Back Market is running iPod Shuffle subway ads. TechCrunch just gave the friction-as-feature movement a name. The shift from maximum functionality to maximum well-being now has a market category.
Two e-ink screens, a hinge, and zero cloud dependencies. Diptyx built an open-source reader shaped like the thing it replaced.
A Raspberry Pi inside, a lab voltmeter outside, and a single needle that swings to tell you the hour. The cost of one needle is patience. Maybe that is the feature.
No app. No dimmer. Pull a counterweight and the onyx glows. Kutarq Studio replaces electronic controls with sailboat hardware and the weight of your hand.