Look, we're sorry, but 1,420 LEDs just isn't cutting it anymore. Maybe back when we were children a touchable 14-foot by 6-foot wall lit up by a myriad of magical blue lights would've managed to pull us away from our Lincoln Logs for a minute or three, but the kids of today grew up on Baby Einstein and a post-Steve Blue's Clues -- they aren't easily impressed. The
Philips "Imagination Light Canvas" is being shown off at the Mercy Medical Center in Rogers, Arkansas, and allows visitors to touch the wall and "paint with light." Whatever you draw slowly fades over time, and apparently you can draw using a bunch of different colors and shapes, though we're only seeing blue squares here. The wall can accommodate six people drawing at once, and pulls about as much electricity as a regular toaster. It'll be unveiled on March 16th.
posted Feb 28th 2008 10:08AM
God...What a ripoff of the iPhone :eyeroll:
I bet it doesn't even play Doom!
It would be an impressive blend.
Come on, this is multi-touch Blue Led.
Those people look like cats chasing the light on a wall from a flashlight.
cats on the wall! that's hilarious...but I was thinking, if they can use that technology and integrate with this rather dull, but potentially cool window display in tokyo:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/interactive-window-display/
then it'd be pretty cool, as well as the "senses" campaign, now running in London's Harrods here:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/futuristic-strawberry-lollipop-engagements/
and here:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/playing-with-naked-women-harrods-and-selfridges/
I found it funny that the "easily entertained" included kids, and what appeared to be at first glance a woman.
I'd hit it.
@J
She looks about 11 (if that)...
Care to revise your comment?
...and I'd hit you, J. :gets baseball bat:
@Simon Richards
If only we could edit comments.
umm...what this device actually does?
well all i'm saying is that i have friends who, er, sometimes have been known to think about taking non legal substances
They would like this muchly...
Wow, Phillips invents another way for kids to cross-contaminate one another.
There's a better/multi-colored picture here:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/02/paint-led-art-f.html
They only let the kids w/ insurance play on it. More money for the hospital. More Staph for you.
Also, I wouldn't consider their work "art." Back to finger-painting, kiddos.
ben Murray> beats catnip!
It's for the new Wheel of Fortune.
Same amount of electricity as a toaster? I don't think I ever have encountered bread in need of a full day of toasting.
But at least we know not to run the microwave at the same time as this thing.
I'll sum up the post better: "Man! Philips just can't make a huge wall that plays Doom! How dare they make something simple that kids seem to like!"
ahhh...improper usage of the word 'myriad'...brings me back to my freshman days in college...
would you have preferred " ...a touchable 14-foot by 6-foot wall lit up by 0.142 myriad lights"?
So you caught that, but what about the misspelling on 'accomadate' (accommodate is what it should be)?
Correct caption-->"The Snozberries taste like snozberry!!!"
GERMS!!!!
How is this so different from walls like this at Dell Children's Hospital in Austin, Texas... interactive... it's just a different application of the same multi-colored wall... the wall at Dell Children's shows a caccoon hatching butterflies... upon touch... quite beautiful and my kids LOVE visiting it.
to the germs posts...
It's ok to have your kids wash their hands afterwards...
the entire wall is kept clean by hospital staff, much the same way handrails, elevator buttons, and outdoor playgrounds.
I'm so bored and that is just from LOOKING at it!!!
Easily Entertained? That's any college-age male that will most likely use the wall to draw penises and other socially unacceptable images.
Hehe. Penis.
In all seriousness, it feels a bit like Surface buzz generator device #1289
Get people entertained with the notion of touchscreens.
if we could play tetris on it, then we'd be talking.
In related news, Dubya was transfixed by what he called "those dang purty glowy thingies."
What? No one even mentioned the possibility of modding Tetris onto this?
For shame... For shame...
Oh, yay! Someone replied with a Tetris comment before I activated my comment. At least there's some form of hope in this blocky world =)
shout out from Rogers Arkansas!
I'm ROFLMAO right now. Lightspace sold Philips this wall and has been making them for 3 years... There is not one iota of Philips owned "proprietary technology" here. What a joke...