The Cloud was created at MIT’s Mobile Experience Lab.
An organic sculptural landmark that responds to human interaction and expresses context awareness using hundreds of sensors and over 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers. Constructed of carbon glass, spanning over four meters, and containing more than 65 kilometers of fiber optics, the Cloud encourages visitors to touch and interact with information in new ways, manifesting emotions and behavior through sound and a dichotomy of luminescence and darkness.
Be sure to watch the video full screen.
What makes this “organic?”
What makes this “context aware?”
What information is interacted with?
What are the new ways in which informtion is interacted?
Typical artist overselling and BS==no matter how much you like colored lights that change.
Not sure if I’m impressed either. I had a fiber optics lamp which displayed different colors back in the mid 70s. The only difference is that with this one you can control each optical fiber. 30 years of progress…
Rub it faster… faster.. faster… arghhh….
So it lights up when a pretty girl appears. So do I.
And what is “carbon glass”?
#2 – Bobbo
What you said.
Big woop. I’m not that impressed, at least not from what the video shows.
I’ll bet the thing would react the same way if Sara Jessica Parker’s crack whore sister started rubbing it.
Looks like a enormous glowing furry alien turd, and it sure didn’t exhibit ANY sort of awareness when the chick was stroking it off at high speed.
Oh, now I get it.
“It is a long-term project that will creatively rethink the trade show concept and will propose innovative technologies, perspectives and sensory experiences for fashion trade shows.
This is what MIT has been reduced to? Novelty displays at fashion shows? Jesus. What’s next, hi-tech playgrounds at McDonald’s?
What color does it turn when a drunk pisses on it?
I’m with Bobbo. I’m getting tired of the word “information” used as a selling catch phrase when it’s entirely meaningless. Usually this infers the “user” having to create their own “information” or “content” to interact with their device or service, because they can’t come up with any data on their own with out getting sued into oblivion.
whoopee x 3
It is a giant deep water amoeba.
That has to be fake or CGI.
All the women at MIT look like Wookies.
The most expensive Christmas lights ever?