The Urballoon art installation has a message for you
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Sep 26th 2007 2:06PM
posted Sep 26th 2007 2:06PM
posted Sep 26th 2007 2:06PM
The estimated number of Xbox 360 consoles that fail within two years of purchase.
A new study from SquareTrade found that just 23.7% of Xbox 360 consoles failed within the first two years of ownership, which is actually a fair bit better than some of the previous numbers that topped 50%.
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I can hear the BB guns being loaded as I type.
Ok, I get that the rays give you cancer. But the poisonous gas tentacles is pure overkill.
Is it sad that when something cool comes along I immediately start seeing ways for advertising to ruin it?
ARe you kidedin' I was just looking to see if I can use it to advertise. Lame, but it is my target market.
wow, I really can't type
No, no you can't. Sure you want to be advertising something after that?
"The artist seeks to juxtapose P2P, DRM, WiMAX, and a bunch of other technology buzzwords against angry parents who are ashamed he became an artist rather than doing something productive with his life. He also seeks to become just popular enough to have his next project paid for by someone else."
Even if the data is wireless...where's the projector's power come from? I'm guessing "wireless" is relative here.
If the balloon is tethered, why should it be wireless at all? He should use power and data cables as the tether. Hmm... i wonder which is lighter - a huge lithium ion battery, or a 1000 foot power cable. I wonder which is safer... nevermind the crash, I want to see this thing Hindenburg when some sharp-shooter pierces the battery.
3 stories != 1000 ft. This thing hangs maybe 35ft in the air.
I can't wait to see the great big 300-foot wide BSOD on the ground.
not all tech art is bad, I thought genpets.com was ok...
and that sms wall thing
The biggest issue I see is the fact that it hovers only 30 FEET above the ground. That's definitely low enough to annoy the sh*t out of you.
IMHO, this is one dumba** idea. No purpose, not terribly novel, most likely will be shot down.
If there are two words I hate in an art description, it's "urban" and "space." They just really irritate me for some reason.
woo hoo. free projector!
All urballoon art belong to us.
uh... what's the point..? And the idea was developed by another guy in China. I thought this was a much a better context for your sms broadcasting, www.txtualhealing.com