IMAX ON A GIANT 3D CLOUD

How would you like a screen made of micro-helicopters?

By ALEX PASTERNACK

If gesture computing just aren’t doing it for you, have you ever considered a screen made of micro-helicopters? MIT’s SENSEable City Lab and Aerospace Robotics Embedded Systems Laboratory (ARES Lab) have, naturally. Flyfire is, essentially, a flying cloud of mini helicopters that individually act as LED pixels, and together create an eye-blowingly new three dimensional display that can transform from one shape to another or morph a two-dimensional photographic image into an articulated shape. If we ever watched Lost, this is how we might have to do it. BLDGBLOG thinks of better uses, like “emergency streetlights, future TV, avant-garde rural entertainment, and even acts of war.”

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By ALEX PASTERNACK 1 year ago

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