Welcome to the future...

Mark Dygert · Jul 2005

http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/IL/projects/datatile/index.html
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/IL/index.html
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/IL/members/schwesig/subcontents/

Watch it in action

If this thing is real, cost effective and easily produced, we are in for a BIG shake up in the way we use media. It's like some crazy memory crystal crap from the future... I can't type any more about it utnil I get my jaw wired back into my head.

joolz8000 · Jul 2005

that's pretty frickin nuts. Not quite getting my head around it yet.

Mishra · Jul 2005

wow. im just not even sure about. wow.

KDR_11k · Jul 2005

Sony again, eh? Seriously, if this keeps up we'll see the Sony Cybernetics Marketing Division be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Oh, and the japanese will have robots that get depressed from hearing those joyful doors thank you for going through them (seriously, Japan has those already).

Now where's my infinite improbability drive?

Mishra · Jul 2005

ok ive always wondered where "first against the wall when the revolution comes" came from, what the hell is it. i know, off topic, but its bugging me.

JO420 · Jul 2005

i dont know what it is but i want one

joolz8000 · Jul 2005

I reckon it has to do with the Bolshevik revolution in 1918, when Tsar Nicholas, the last Tsar of Russia, and his family were executed (shot against a basement wall). This is funny-
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KDR_11k · Jul 2005

Mishra: That's a quote from the Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy:

"The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy describes the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes'. Incidentally a future edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that fell into a black hole and travelled back through time into the present, describes the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came'."

That part is included in the BBC TV series, I wonder if the movie includes it, too?

That panel frigging rules but I wonder if you could place two separate groups with e.g. one TimeMachine each on the panel and have the panels act independently (i.e. using one TimeMachine will not influence the data in the other group).

Toomas · Jul 2005

KDR i think the tiles that interact with each other must be physically connected (look when he puts 2 next to each other some light thingy appears).

KDR_11k · Jul 2005

The tiles are just displays, they all use the same computer so it's not guranteed that their data is kept separate though it will probably be in the final version.

Toomas · Jul 2005

Thats not what i meant, what i meant is that if your tiles are not next to each other they wont interact (otherwise the idea would be a mess).

hawken · Jul 2005

yet to see (hear) those doors.

KDR_11k · Jul 2005

A friend of mine said he encountered them. Dunno where.

EDIT: And what would the future be without energy beam weapons?

peanut · Jul 2005

This was around internet for some time now.

My only beef against it is that after dinner better wash your hands so you dont put grease all over those little screens

Rwolf · Jul 2005

Nice...
Wonder if that will ever become a regular household item like the TV :P

Sett · Jul 2005

TVs? -dust magnets that the proles watch.

I don't see this as any thing useful. It is interesting but not very practical.

I could see someone putting down the porn tile next to the time machine tile and watch the qirl get younger and younger.

Go too far and your door gets kicked in- "Tile Police!!!!! up against the wall!!!"

Welcome to the future...

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