WIRED NextFest 2008 Exhibits
Alinea
Martin Kastner
Restaurateur and renown chef, Grant Achatz, and designer, Martin Kastner, are out to change the way you eat. A meal at Alinea can More Info
Art of Play
Erik Natzke
Andy Warhol and the other Pop artists made their mark by using commercial art tools and techniques to create iconic works of the More Info
Biofuel from Microalgae
Harrison Dillon
It takes just three hours for a Solazyme microalgae cell to double. One cell become two, then two cells become four, and so on. More Info
Brainball
Interactive Institute
Relax. Clear your mind and go! In Brainball two players sit across a special table wearing the sport’s hallmark brainwave- More Info
C-Leg System
Otto Bock HealthCare
Prosthetics go bionic. The C-Leg’s microprocessor crunches data from internal sensors that measure angle and force 50 times per More Info
Cell Phone Disco
Informationlab
Tired of text messages and voicemail? Amsterdam’s Informationlab has found another use for your cell phone-creating digital art. More Info
ckBot
Grasp Lab, University of Pennsylvania
Kick it, smash it, or drop it from on high — professor Mark Yim’s modular ckBot can take a licking and More Info
Climate Time Machine
NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
H.G. Wells’ classic 1895 novella The Time Machine takes readers 3 million years into the future to More Info
d3o
d3o lab
Say hello to the new Spidey suit. Richard Palmer, snowboarding enthusiast and director of the d3o Lab in Hove, England, More Info
Dynamic Arm Elbow 12K100
Otto Bock HealthCare
A prosthetic revolution, Otto Bock HealthCare’s elbow has an electric motor so powerful it can lift up to 13 pounds. Its More Info
Erasable Paper
Xerox
Wouldn’t no recycling bins be better than blue recycling bins? More than 40 percent of all office printouts are discarded More Info
EveryBlock
EveryBlock
Want to know how your neighborhood sushi bar fared in its last health inspection? Or perhaps you’d like to rifle through your local More Info
Flower
thatgamecompany
Kellee Santiago and Jenova Chen, founders of thatgamecompany, find the emotional palette used in most video games to be too More Info
GigaPan
NASA, Carnegie Mellon University
You don’t have to be a world-class photographer (or Photoshop expert) to take a brilliant panoramic shot. The product of a two-year More Info
GuiaBot
MobileRobots
Like the automated butlers in Woody Allen’s classic film Sleeper – only without the black suits and the tinfoil hats — GuiaBot greets More Info
Hoops Interactive Kiosk
EA Sports
Spectrum, EA Sports’ innovation lab, creates integrated entertainment experiences out of bits of the latest, greatest More Info
Hoverit Lounger
Hoverit
Imagine the love child of Le Corbusier’s chaise lounge from 1929 and a modern magnetically levitated train, and you’ve got some idea of the More Info
Imagine_PS
HumanCar
Think one car can change the world? Charles Greenwood does. His design firm, HumanCar, will unveil on Earth Day 2009 a vehicle More Info
Immersa-Dome
Aardvark Applications
The Immersa-Dome is the world’s first multi-sensory, projection-based virtual reality system — like taking a thrill ride while sitting still More Info
iPoint Presenter
Fraunhofer Institute
Paul Chojecki of Berlin’s Fraunhofer Institute has reduced communication between man and computer to a touch-free science with the More Info
Keepon
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
It’s a dance, dance revolution! Meet the BeatBot named Keepon More Info
MARCbot
NASA, Department of Defense, Exponent
The need for robots in space compliments the need for robots here on Earth. In the new More Info
Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
The Odd Gentlemen
The title character in The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, a side-scrolling, Mario-style More Info
Modular Snake Robots
Carnegie Mellon University
Finally, a snake even Indiana Jones could appreciate. Designed to help with everything from rescue missions to routine plumbing More Info
Mower
Carnegie Mellon University
Mower is a cartoony Styrofoam robot sheep that can roam large public lawns with shears in its mouth and rangefinders in its eyes, More Info
News at Seven
Northwestern University
Newscasters are practically automatons already, so a synthetic anchor comes as a welcome alternative. The News at Seven system More Info
PEIR
Center for Embedded Network Sensing, UCLA
The world is watching you, so watch yourself. The Personal Environmental Impact More Info
Planilum Light
SAAZS
Why bother replacing incandescent light bulbs every few months when you can brighten your home for 20 years (or 50,000 hours) with More Info
Plastic from CO2
Novomer
Oranges and carbon dioxide become plastic via the alchemy of catalysts first discovered at Cornell University. While More Info
PM
Toyota
The PM is the first in a series of prototypes that realizes Toyota’s concept of Personal Mobility. Envisioned as a vehicle More Info
Prius Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle
Toyota
The prototype Plug-in Hybrid Electric is the next rev for Prius. Designed to maintain electric mode longer and at higher speeds, the PHEV More Info
RoboKind
Hanson Robotics, Robo-Garage
Welcome back to human civilization, Zeno. This robo-boy – the first in Hanson Robotics’ RoboKind line (and first introduced at More Info
Security Printing
Xerox
It’s ironic that Xerox now makes documents that can’t be photocopied. Xerox protects documents from unauthorized duplication More Info
Sensor Walk
Otto Bock HealthCare and Mayo Clinic
Weak legs can really hold a person back. Canes, crutches, braces, and wheelchairs don’t hold a candle to the biomechanical efficiency More Info
Solid Ink
Xerox
Think crayons. That’s Solid Ink. It’s clean, easy to use, good for the environment, and only available from Xerox. The printer’s colored More Info
Spiral Water Filtration
PARC, a Xerox company
Blue is the new Green. In much of the developing world, water filtration is limited due to both high cost and large space requirements. More Info
Suitcase Pavilion
Virginia Tech
The Suitcase Pavilion is not architecture made from suitcases; it is architecture that can be carried in suitcases. For the More Info
The Chicago Project
Bruce Mau Design
Celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the Burnham Plan, The Chicago Project (TCP) is a vision for the next 100 years of Chicago. More Info
The Loop, Chicago,
1848 – 2007
Jason Salavon
Software is Jason Salavon’s artistic medium. The former video game programmer More Info
Toyota 1/X
Toyota
Toyota’s 1/X concept compact hybrid offers a glimpse into the future of automotive technology. This ultra-lightweight vehicle boasts More Info
Toyota i-REAL
Toyota
The i-REAL is a three-wheeled Personal Mobility vehicle, and its name expresses the effort to make the concept real. The “walk” More Info
Toyota i-swing
Toyota
With its body-hugging shape, i-swing feels like something you’d wear rather than drive. When this vehicle shifts its shape, it’s not showing More Info
Xtreme Photovoltaics
SUNRGI
SUNRGI’s mission is simple: Maximize the sun’s reusable energy by concentrating its light on tiny, ultra-efficient solar cells. The More Info
X-48B Blended Wing Body
Boeing and NASA
Today’s passenger jets all look the same: long tubes with two wings and a tail. Tomorrow’s jets could have the graceful silhouette of a manta More Info