January 28, 2006
Passerbys conduct orchestra in shop window with cell phones
Régine on WMMNA has written up some fabulous interactive shop windows she's read about over the past few months. These two are related to cell phones:
Sale Away
"In Staalplaat's Sale Away, passers-by could conduct an "orchestra" of household devices via their mobile phones on a display window. The mechanical orchestra consisted of flute, organ and brass playing vacuum cleaners, rattling kitchen mixers, buzzing ventilators, radio playing toy trains, wobbling jigsaws, dancing tumble dryers, humming refrigerators and other misused household utilities.
The Digital Aquarium
The Digital Aquarium, by Digit featured 150 pre-programmed mobile phones in a glass tank on display at London's Design Museum in 2002. When viewers dialed the number on the side of the tank, the handsets vibrated, their screens lighted up and each one emited a distinctive ring tone, creating an effect which is meant to look like a school of fish swimming around. (image Sensory Impact)
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