"Electronic Popables is an interactive pop-up book that sparkles, sings, and moves. The book integrates traditional pop-up mechanisms with thin, flexible, paper-based electronics and the result is a book that looks and functions much like an ordinary pop-up with the added element of dynamic interactivity. Electronic Popables was built by Jie Qi, with assistance from Leah Buechley and Tshen Chew."
The Hi-Low Tech group sounds like an interesting place to explore boundless creativity.
"[the] group integrates high and low technological materials, processes, and cultures. Our primary aim is to engage diverse audiences in designing and building their own technologies by situating computation in new cultural and material contexts, and by developing tools that democratize engineering. We believe that the future of technology will be largely determined by end-users who will design, build, and hack their own devices, and our goal is to inspire, shape, support, and study these communities. To this end, we explore the intersection of computation, physical materials, manufacturing processes, traditional crafts, and design."
I discovered these hypnotic robotic jellyfish on a German website, Festo. I can't read German. Is it art? Technology? I love fusions.
Google Translator, that cryptic oracle, says:
"Project name is an artificial autonomous jellyfish in the water, which has self-governing system as a distinct swarm behavior. Project name consists of a translucent hemisphere and eight tentacles that serve the propulsion. In the center of AquaJelly is a watertight, pressure laser sintered body. This includes inside a central, electric drive, two lithium-ion polymer batteries, the charge control and the servo motors for the swashplate."
