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Cinemod Studio have created a reactive football stadium in Peru that is “able to communicate the ebb and flow of excitement and disappointment to the surrounding city, thus becoming a watched spectacle in itself”.
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Mechanical Tumor by Mio I-zawa shows CPU usage or “stress”. Disturbing - but brilliant.
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Frodo’s Sword “Sting” glows blue when he’s in the presence of Orcs.
Yep. Lord of the Rings. You might be wondering why I’m posting this - but it’s a great example of a glanceable, “magical” ambient interface. It’s what David Rose (Founder of Ambient Devices and Vitality) uses to help describe GlowCaps - the network enabled medicine lids that glow to remind patients to take their medicine.
He calls them enchanted objects.
