Hasta La Ideas

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pThe result of ‘Six-Forty by Four-Eighty’ is not 30.72, it is a mesmerizing combination of computation and design. For the last edition of Design Miami/Basel, American a href=”http://zigelbaumcoelho.com”Jamie Zigelbaum and Brazilian Marcelo Coelho/a created a multidisciplinary piece that was the most intriguing of all. /p

pIn a pitch dark room, 220 colorful magnetic tiles illuminated a wall. Each pixel had its own individual computer with LED light and a touchdown screen that could turn into thousands of different colors, though only a time. The installation was beautiful but, moreover, it was lots of fun. /p

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pIt wasn’t until you approached it and started playing with it that you got the full experience. The visitor could move the pixels around, creating the desired pattern and leaving his or her own footprint in the design. But this kind of interaction wouldn’t be new in the design world. Coelho and Zigelbaum have created something else, something more spectacular and shocking./p

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pWith the right hand you touch one of the extra large pixels, let’s say, a pink one. With the left hand, you touch another, a green one, for example. A few seconds later…. tada! They both had turned into the same color. The electrical impulses had traveled through your body from one extreme to another. In fact, the designers claim that they have managed to create a chain of eight people and it still works!/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/design_miamibasel_computation_made_fancy_design__16832.asp”(more…)/a
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