Bloomberg Display
Bloomberg Display A few months ago a new building, the Marunouchi Building, opened to much fanfare. But, looking at what was there I wasn't much interested.  It's a building directly outside Tokyo Station.  It has 5 floors of shopping and 4 floors of restaurants but from what I could tell it was not all that different from any other shopping center.  The building itself is not impressive unlike say the buildings at Roppongi Hills or Shiodome. But, they have this wicked cool exhibit that a friend told me I must see so we went over and he showed me.

It's in interactive exhibit sponsored by Bloomberg.  Interestingly I don't think most people knew it was interactive.  Nobody was playing with it when we walked in and it's not really obvious.  It almost looks like some cyber future stock ticker display made from LEDs although the words "TOUCH HERE" float across the screen from time to time.

If you touch it up comes a menu for 4 games or toys you can play with.  You can look at the wall of LEDs and see that in each like 6x6 square there are small holes with motion sensors so as you move in front of the wall it can sense which parts are covered and react.  Check us out playing with it.


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Comments:

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I wonder if this is a product of the Sony CSL labs? They have some "interactive wall" project that looks similar to this.

posted by anon_esprit9June 12, 2003 at 13:03

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That was neat! :)  But you might want to fix your quicktime links.

posted by bunnyJune 13, 2003 at 5:43

doh! [ e ]

fixed

posted by greggmanJune 14, 2003 at 9:53

Who provides the software for this? [ e ]

I'd like to know who developed the software for this?  It is cool and I may like to talk to them about another application.  Got any ideas?

posted by anon_LeslieJuly 10, 2003 at 16:20

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no idea but it would not be hard to make.  The hardest part is making / wiring the screen.  Acutally, that's not hard either it just takes lots of money for the parts which I don't have

posted by greggmanJuly 11, 2003 at 2:55