The Hotel Everland is a portable, bright green, rectangular one-room hotel that has been stationed in various locations in Switzerland, Germany, and France.

Finland is set to become the first country in the world to make broadband Internet a legal right, according to their Ministry of Transport and Communications.

Coinciding with the theatrical release of “Where The Wild Things Are”, the Animazing Gallery in Soho NYC is presenting the world’s largest exhibition and sale of Maurice Sendak’s illustrations.

This weekend, Brett Snyder and Irene Cheng are kicking off The Museum Of The Phantom City: Other Futures, a mobile media project that explores a wide variety of forward thinking architectural and artistic designs for New York City that never came to fruition.

The Electrolux Design Lab is a global design competition for graduate and undergraduate industrial design students to showcase innovative ideas in household appliances.

Mio I-zawa is a Japanese interactive media artist that utilizes flesh-like masses of material that resemble hearts, tumors, and skin cells. These items are placed into situations where they interact with computers, humans, or both.

Japanese mobile phone monolith Docomo has developed a mobile phone called the “Touch Wood” built from the excess wood collected during forest thinning.

MIT has also developed a tool called Eyebrowse, a Firefox add-on that enables you to record, visualize and share your browser history in real-time.

As part of the “Artists Taking The Lead” program, which invited all UK artists to submit proposals for art projects that are to be displayed during the 2012 Summer Olympics, designers Alfie Dennen and Paula Le Dieu have created “Bus-Tops”.

Taizo is a robot built by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan, designed specifically to lead the elderly in exercise.

The Foundry Theatre’s current offering, “The Provenance Of Beauty” by Claudia Rankine, is a play that discusses the past, present and future of the South Bronx, and the issues of gentrification and growth that exist within the community.

A New Zealand artist has caused a bit of controversy amongst the artistic community in his homeland after winning a contemporary art award utilizing the discarded materials of his competitors.

Specialists in creating extreme environments, as well as events that bring the DIY community together, a Bushwick-based art duo have constructed a maze within the space, entitled “YOU ARE HERE: THE MAZE”.

Chicago-based digital strategist Len Kendall, creator of the blog Constructive Grumpiness, is currently planning The 3six5 Project- a lifestreaming effort that will span the entirety of 2010.

After a decade of research, The Wildlife Conservation Society has put together “The Mannahatta Project” which provides an in-depth look at the island of Manhattan as it was circa 1609.