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FIT’s Season of Experimental Making

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A faculty research space documenting 18 student and faculty projects spanning AI, fashion, VR, games, interactive code, fabrication, and digital exhibitions.

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This is a genuinely curated parade of strange, specific experiments: a playable Nintendo flagship store, a VR journey inside a stranger’s VHS memory, an interactive mirror, a poetry revision generator, and a digital fashion museum. The site treats AI as an instrument within a broader culture of making, rather than as the whole story.

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Thirty Patents for the Grave

August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.

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The Museum of Hopeful Machines museumofhopefulmachines.com

An illustrated archive of ingenious machines whose promises exceeded their proof, drawn from historical patent records.

 The Hollowfield Institute Catalogues Things That Never Happened hollowfieldinstitute.com

A fictional Washington archive documents genuine American folklore, including hoaxes, sightings, and the people who kept writing them down.

 TAXIATER: The Festival That Turns Taxis into Cinemas taxiater.com

TAXIATER is a Japanese short-film festival that uses screens in 100 Tokyo taxis as a moving cinema.