Using it to display almost nothing but textual ad slogans was a despicable failure of imagination, but it's pretty sweet hardware.
Today in Mechanical Screensaver news:
Tags: art, computers, glitch, mad science, mpegs, retrocomputing, toys
Current Music: Giana Factory -- Walking Mirror ♬
12 Responses:
Impressive frame rate! Time to re-think the DNA sign curse?
I see dead pixels. Sadly.
they seem to have harnessed the power between the pixels!
We've moved on from "pornographers will be the driving force behind nee technologies" to a future where it's advertisers instead and now I made myself sad.
There's a difference?
Sure. Pornographers produce content I want to see.
This feels like a throwaway detail from William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's Difference Engine.
That book was a piece of shit, and if that's your first cognitive reference for mechanical computing, that's bad and you should feel bad.
I thought of The Cassini Division. I am not as bad.
I see that thing at CES. Can't begin to tell you what the booth was our anything about the company. My only two thoughts were "giant E-ink display with huuuuge pixels" and "I absolutely want this to be in ${employer}'s lobby. Why can't we have nice things?"
And previously http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html
What, you don't click through the transitive closure of the "previously" links and read all the comments? You're liable to get drummed out of the jwz fanboy corps for that!