Utilizing freestyle footballers, a hacking experiment features wall-mounted Guitar Hero controls placed in front of a three-story screen. Soccer balls kicked at the life-size panels provide the physical interface for the game within the game.

takes live tags and drawings and transforms them into active 3D animations. Even Roth's project was demonstrated recently at the BLK River Festival in Vienna.

The Steampunk Haunted House is a different spin on the usually gore-and-blood cliches that permeate most haunted houses and also gives visitors a unique view into historical and aestheticcuriosities from a long-gone time.

Sustainable Minds has created a piece of software that can help asses life cycle impact of potential products based on factors such as materials used.

Texas-based jewelry designer Melissa Borrell melds fashion and industrial design with her 2D3D line.

Sculptor Christopher Fennell created a bus shelter in Atlanta from three decommissioned school busses. Exterior slices of a '62,'72, and '77 buses were joined together and the seating is from an old city bus. Interesting mix of creative reuse of

LCD screens have been set up on the L subway line in New York City which display the exact location of trains on the line, so travelers can better understand how long the wait will be.

Experts say national report out this week warning of lead in kids' face paint is overstating the danger.

The University of Minnesota will receive $55 million over the next five years to help improve the global response to emerging pandemics.

The Health Department says there were 275 patients hospitalized with influenza-like illness in the last week. That's the biggest jump in hospitalizations since the department began tracking the H1N1 flu outbreak in April.

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Santa Monica-based Zag, the online auto buying site headed by Scott Painter, has hired on a Director of New Products, according to recruiting firm NeoHire. NeoHire said that Alexander Rosten has been hired into the position, joining Zag from Mota

Camarillo-based Vitesse Semiconductor said Friday that it has appointed two new board members, as part of a debt restructuring deal. According to Vitesse, James Hugar and Grant Lyon replace Guy W. Adams, Robert A. Lundy, and Willow B. Shire, who

Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen is the subject of a lawsuit being filed by New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, along with 14 other states, claiming that the biotech firm created a kickback scheme to boost drug sales. According

Carlsbad-based Verdezyne, which is developing technology to improve the fermentation process for biofuels, has raised $2.96M as part of a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday afternoon. According to the filing, the funding is part

Carlsbad-based ViaSat, a developer of satellite and wireless communications systems, is reporting this morning that it has been granted an early termination by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice on its Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust waiting period. ViaSat had

Los Angeles-based Sometrics, a developer of analytics tools for online game developers, announced today that it has appointed Steve Schepke as its Vice President of Business Development. Schepke was most recently Agency General Manager for Tsavo Media, and has also

Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire founder of Abraxis Bioscience, has committed $100M in underwriting guarantees to reopen Martin Luther King, Jr. hospital (MLK), his foundation announced this week. According to the Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation, it will provide a $100M guarantee,

Unnoticed by the nearby residents of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in the area have just provided some of the clearest evidence yet that environmental factors play a major role in

E-prescription data is sent to Rhode Island health officials to help identify potential H1N1 outbreaks and affected age groups.