SMS slingshot: Digital Text Messages on Urban Facades

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1. Guerilla Innovation on the SMS slingshot, a device designed to create digital augmented realities in urban space. The device is shaped as a wooden slingshot with a build-in mobile phone display, a keypad and a laser. Users can type a text message and shoot it straight at a large facade. A projector pointed at the facade will show the message as a colour splash with the message written within. The project is designed by VR/URBAN, a group of digital intervention-activists based in Berlin. They will demonstrate the device at various media-festival in the next couple of months. Check their ... (Read Full Article)

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