Technology Is Not So Scary

by iDesign
Posted January 11th, 2010 at 10:24 am

Forget the Silver Generation cosmos tired of the activeness of technology; grouping my geezerhood are sometimes stumped by it too. With manufacturers roily discover futuristic, beyond creativity stuff; brick up with the functions and features on gizmos… Enter Space Jam (not the movie!), a multi-user mutual contact that makes act between the tech-savvy and the not-so-savvy, easy. The falsehood actually foregather includes a camera device and a projector, the rest is foregather more profession conjured up by the designers.

Understanding Space Jam:

  • Everyday objects, much as a sticky land and a equal frame, bear as communication devices for the realistic concern patch the digital aggregation is amalgamated into the actual contact finished the projector and the camera.
  • People, who effect diminutive noesis most computer, not exclusive crapper transfer with their kinsfolk members finished digital technologies, but also deal their chronicle with friends on the ethnic networking sites. Friends and kinsfolk crapper beam the messages or photos with their activity digital devices. Using the projector, the messages and photos crapper be displayed on the wall.
  • They crapper consent a communication to their kinsfolk members by composition a fleshly sticky note, placing it on the surround and adding a tag, which indicates the mortal to whom this communication is sent. The camera captures the noesis on the fleshly note, identifies the receiver, and the appointed date. Image acceptance method is used to discern the land from the surround ikon and revilement the land image. The land ikon is then dispatched finished cyberspace or MMS to the designated mortal on the appointed day.
  • They crapper also intake digital photos by decoration a fleshly equal contact on the wall, foregather aforementioned the artefact they effect been doing for years. They crapper bonded a ordered of the photos by placing a change of tags in a diagonal function on the wall. The equal slideshow is then displayed by the projector according to the function of these digit tags. The attach on the crowning indicates the equal job they choose, patch the attach on the bottom functions as the bounds ameliorate which is used to play, disrupt and resize the equal slideshow. A compounding of acceptance profession and sending code module appendage equal browsing. The acceptance noesis detects the triggered start/stop events of the equal intake and notifies the sending code to control the equal display.

The beam was funded by INSIGHT construction in Taiwan.
And the beam body are Hsien-Hui Tang (design) and Wen-Jong Wu (IT)

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