Philips shows off "Imagination Light Canvas" for the easily entertained

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.

[eggothewaffle @ Feb 28th 2008 10:12AM]

God...What a ripoff of the iPhone :eyeroll:

I bet it doesn't even play Doom!

[sully @ Feb 28th 2008 10:37AM]

It would be an impressive blend.

[Hanson @ Feb 28th 2008 10:19AM]

Come on, this is multi-touch Blue Led.

[Nando @ Feb 28th 2008 10:29AM]

Those people look like cats chasing the light on a wall from a flashlight.

[M @ Feb 28th 2008 10:34AM]

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/

[Andrew @ Feb 28th 2008 10:43AM]

I found it funny that the "easily entertained" included kids, and what appeared to be at first glance a woman.

[J @ Feb 28th 2008 11:13AM]

I'd hit it.

[SimonRichards @ Feb 28th 2008 11:21AM]

@J

She looks about 11 (if that)...

Care to revise your comment?

[Nando @ Feb 28th 2008 11:32AM]

...and I'd hit you, J. :gets baseball bat:

[Makalu @ Feb 28th 2008 10:59PM]

@Simon Richards
If only we could edit comments.

[silverblackvoid @ Feb 28th 2008 10:43AM]

umm...what this device actually does?

[ben Murray @ Feb 28th 2008 11:00AM]

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...

[Andy B. @ Feb 28th 2008 10:56AM]

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

[dajimmers @ Feb 28th 2008 11:48AM]

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.

[M @ Feb 28th 2008 11:04AM]

ben Murray> beats catnip!

[jmiday @ Feb 28th 2008 11:21AM]

It's for the new Wheel of Fortune.

[Joe @ Feb 28th 2008 11:30AM]

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.

[Big John @ Feb 28th 2008 11:32AM]

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!"

[Ocho Cinco @ Feb 28th 2008 11:36AM]

ahhh...improper usage of the word 'myriad'...brings me back to my freshman days in college...

[Sean D. @ Feb 28th 2008 12:08PM]

would you have preferred " ...a touchable 14-foot by 6-foot wall lit up by 0.142 myriad lights"?

[Chicksta @ Feb 28th 2008 6:10PM]

So you caught that, but what about the misspelling on 'accomadate' (accommodate is what it should be)?

[Barbaric @ Feb 28th 2008 11:36AM]

Correct caption-->"The Snozberries taste like snozberry!!!"

[Rainier @ Feb 28th 2008 11:38AM]

GERMS!!!!

[dreampc @ Feb 28th 2008 11:48AM]

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.

[ecobore @ Feb 28th 2008 12:20PM]

I'm so bored and that is just from LOOKING at it!!!

[MadMike @ Feb 28th 2008 1:11PM]

Easily Entertained? That's any college-age male that will most likely use the wall to draw penises and other socially unacceptable images.

[mat552 @ Feb 28th 2008 1:33PM]

Hehe. Penis.

In all seriousness, it feels a bit like Surface buzz generator device #1289

Get people entertained with the notion of touchscreens.

[tekdroid @ Feb 28th 2008 4:36PM]

if we could play tetris on it, then we'd be talking.

[Seoul Brother @ Feb 28th 2008 6:26PM]

In related news, Dubya was transfixed by what he called "those dang purty glowy thingies."

[What @ Feb 28th 2008 8:36PM]

What? No one even mentioned the possibility of modding Tetris onto this?

For shame... For shame...

[What @ Feb 28th 2008 8:38PM]

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 =)

[JDizzle @ Feb 28th 2008 11:20PM]

shout out from Rogers Arkansas!

[Tom Servaux @ Mar 2nd 2008 3:57PM]

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...