Front Design's Changing Cupboard displays pixelated art

While we've seen hordes of clever marketing gimmicks in the past, a few involving those flipping signs that rotate through various spots, Front Design is taking the billboard approach to a cupboard in an attempt to showcase a new form of art. The aptly-dubbed Changing Cupboard rocks a bevy of turnable panels on an everyday piece of furniture, but due to special effects that aren't entirely disclosed, it can flip squares over to constantly evolve into a new piece of design. Of course, the pixel morphing unit makes a whole lot more sense when you see it motion, so go on, click through for a peek of your own.

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[citizen @ May 1st 2007 5:22AM]

This thing just works like those flipping billboards, only the columns change, its only got 3 designs.

[Richard Lai @ May 1st 2007 5:45AM]

How about greyscale OLED panels instead? They can then randomize the picture.

[MickeyMoo @ May 1st 2007 6:55AM]

Or instead of OLED - old Greyscale palm device screens, there's got to be a landfill in Utah full of them

[TC @ May 1st 2007 7:48AM]

E-paper. Much more enery efficient.

[John @ May 1st 2007 8:35AM]

I was thinking the squares would be randomized - instead of 3 patterns, you'd have a ton of em.

[ambivalent @ May 1st 2007 8:43AM]

I'm thinking that the outside should be LCDs and it displays what appears behind the object. Or the full front of a fridge that shows realtime images of the action inside the fridge... or ceilings that display the sky in real time.

Does someone want to give me funding?

[Mike @ May 1st 2007 8:53AM]

"Or the full front of a fridge that shows realtime images of the action inside the fridge"

Like those fridges with glass doors?

[ambivalent @ May 1st 2007 8:58AM]

The LCD would allow for you to still have shelve inside the door and none of the temperature loss that putting a window in something would cause...

You could have it so that the front on activates when you grab the door handle.... How about drawers that display the contents. Ceilings that give you upskirts for the floor about you...uh... that one was a joke...

[Blue Sam @ May 1st 2007 9:57AM]

without my glasses to make pixels put "together" in picture as on 1st, it seem like halls, the second look like two people have sex, while stare at camera, and third, is nothing but weird brunch square

[Daniel @ May 1st 2007 10:06AM]

Did anyone else notice how loud it was?

[matthew @ May 1st 2007 11:21AM]

there should seriously be an epilepsy aggravation warning somewhere in this article. damn.

[murray @ May 1st 2007 1:01PM]

Awesome. A cupboard with three ways of looking dumb.

[Jeff @ May 1st 2007 3:07PM]

Lame. Why bother with a pixelated image when there are only three possible combinations? I think someone may have misunderstood the definition, and the reason for existance, of pixels.

[SonOfSamus @ May 4th 2007 7:16PM]

holy christ engadget, yet again you report on something with only the vaguest understanding of what you just read. "special effects," lol.