Web Week

By PETER SINCLAIR

1000 Years of the Olympic Games: an interactive exhibition at Australia's Powerhouse Museum featuring a digital reconstruction of Olympia in 200BC and a tour through its ruins today, plus a virtual recreation of the famous statue of Zeus in 3D. Make your way through the exhibition zooming in on artifacts and inspecting 360-degree views of selected pieces. Includes a family tree of the all-too-human Greek gods and a downloadable education kit on Greek history.

Stunt Productions: New Zealand stunt-men have an international reputation, and here's where you'll find them in all their reckless glory. The lurid exploits depicted in its gallery will convince you of the benefits of a sedentary lifestyle.

Life gets more inflammatory: the Institute for Applied Autonomy has invented robot protesters. There's Pamphleteer, which offers subversive literature to passers-by; GraffitiWriter functions like a remote-control dot-matrix printer, using an array of spray-paint cans as its print-head and the pavement as its page (it has already been used over 200 times in 7 US cities by, among others, a Girl Scout troop); while StreetWriter mounts on a car bumper to paint complaints on the street legible from tall buildings and low-flying aircraft. Protest made perfect.

National College of Security: if you wish to counter the effects of the link above, enrol yourself among the righteous as a law-enforcement officer, rescue professional, private investigator, bodyguard or dog-handler. Law'n'order sets up shop.

Links

Powerhouse Museum

Stunt Productions

Institute for Applied Autonomy

National College of Security