SHOJI: Symbiotic Hosting Online Jog Instrument
Like KOTOHANA, the SHOJI system consists of a pair of terminals placed at separate locations. Each terminal is equipped with a full-color LED array, a microphone and five sensors (developed at the University of Tokyo) that detect light, temperature, humidity, infrared radiation and ultrasonic waves. In addition to constantly measuring the room’s environmental conditions, SHOJI terminals can detect the presence and movement of people, body temperature, and the nature of the activity in the room.
Each SHOJI terminal constantly sends the room’s mood data over the Internet to the other terminal, where it is expressed as colored light on the LED array. By checking the color of light on the SHOJI terminal, users can easily understand the mood in the other room.
SHOJI’s display consists of 10 rows of LEDs that emit colors corresponding to different emotions — red for anger, blue for sadness, yellow for happiness, and green for peace. The display also provides a clear indication of mood shifts, with the top 5 rows representing the current mood of the room and the bottom 5 representing the recent past.
GS Yuasa will soon put SHOJI to a series of field tests at Tokyo-area companies, allowing head office managers to keep tabs on the mood at branch offices (and vice-versa). Tests are also planned at hospitals and in residential settings.
from pinktentacle
Contemporary Led Space Design
Japan Media Arts Festival is a “Contest” in which authors praise creative media art works utilizing the latest expression technology and also Festival in which organizers support creative activity and broadly present various art works.
“The world of media arts is expanding with increasing speed every year.
notion mold is a space design in which feelings stirring behind the creation such as wishes and expectations of artists existing in the background of works which had made an entry into the Festival were replaced with forms as a design metaphor.Symbolic figures reaching out from the entrance were created with see-through fabric. They proceeded organically farther into the exhibition hall folding upward and downward. The area’s award-winning works were exhibited where the audience stepped in, as if he or she were guided by something, were lighted softly with category color zone by zone. A function was interwoven into the color which gave a vague hint of a contact point between an work which the audience was facing and the audience themselves.
LEDs were added to captions of works exhibited the same as last year. In my space construction, those lights were the same number as the artists who created works and asserted themselves gently in the semi-darkness of the exhibition space.”
TANIGAWA Junji, JTQ Inc.
from official site Japan Media Arts Plaza
LED Bonsai Tree
If you like technology and if you like traditional Japanese art, you should try to build your own LED bonsai tree. There is one simple tutorial that describe one cool way to make it using 1152 LED’s and 256 resistors.
The base is a flower pot and a disk of wood with a ring of holes for the wire “roots” to pass through. The wood is resined into the flower pot which is topped up with a mixture of peat and PVA to form a hard soil-like surface.
“The number of flowers was chosen to be a binary multiple to make it easier to twist the wire together in a way that allows pairs of branches to combine progressively until there is just one big trunk of 256 wires going into the base. All 256 wires are electrically functional and were colour coded brown for +ve and green for -ve to make wiring easier while giving a natural appearance(!).”
LED Emotion Flower
Each KOTOHANA set consists two flower-shaped terminals equipped with LEDs that change color according to the emotions of the person who owns the counterpart. Each flower contains a microphone that captures voice data for processing, the results of which are sent via wireless LAN to the other terminal, where it is expressed as LED light.
The product is still in the prototype stage, with the ST engine running on a separate computer connected to KOTOHANA. NEC plans to showcase KOTOHANA at CeBIT, the international trade show for information and telecommunications technology to be held from March 9 to 15 in Hannover, Germany.
via: pinktentacle
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