09OctPhysical display with deformable skin

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Another neat technique in the vein of SnOil, a physical display Based on ferrofluid that reacts to magnetism. Shade Pixel is a type of physical display that uses deformable skin to represent information.

It is very pretty, the dots on the white look like steps in the snow. Notice how the sound from the solenoid works really well with the “clock” idea! A nice trick to deal with such noisy technology. You can see a video about Shade Pixel here:


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 idealist10 Oct 2008

    wonderful!
    it reminds me to the Digital Elastic Clock by Albin Karlsson
    http://www.albinkarlsson.com/projects/digital/digitalgold.html

    and in a certain way, to the very cool SnOil project by Martin Frey
    http://www.architectradure.com/2007/02/17/pixel-graphic-style-in-a-physical-display/

    Thanks for the discovery.


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