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Bloomberg Display
June 12th, 2003
A few months ago a new building, the
Marunouchi Building, opened to much fanfare. But, looking at what was there
I wasn't much interested. It's a building directly outside Tokyo Station.
It has 5 floors of shopping and 4 floors of restaurants but from what I could
tell it was not all that different from any other shopping center. The
building itself is not impressive unlike say the buildings at
Roppongi Hills or
Shiodome. But, they have this wicked cool
exhibit that a friend told me I must see so we went over and he showed me.
It's in interactive exhibit sponsored by Bloomberg. Interestingly I don't think most people knew it was interactive. Nobody was playing with it when we walked in and it's not really obvious. It almost looks like some cyber future stock ticker display made from LEDs although the words "TOUCH HERE" float across the screen from time to time. If you touch it up comes a menu for 4 games or toys you can play with. You can look at the wall of LEDs and see that in each like 6x6 square there are small holes with motion sensors so as you move in front of the wall it can sense which parts are covered and react. Check us out playing with it.
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I wonder if this is a product of the Sony CSL labs? They have some "interactive wall" project that looks similar to this.