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« Flash game contest winners, in time for the weekend | Main | BBC Casteneda documentary; New Firefox extensions; Life/death art » April 12, 2008Mad mashup: Wi-fi umbrella screen with camera, GPS, compassIf you forget where you're going while you're trudging around watching the movie in the sky, you have a GPS and a compass to tell you just where you're lost in the woods.
Pileus, the Wi-Fi Umbrella From Vous Pensez, It has a built-in camera that allows you to take photos that can be uploaded to Flickr via a wireless connection (yes, WiFi!). You may also watch downloaded photo-streams on your umbrella screen (see photograph) with simple wrist snapping movements.
The tech explanatiion, sort of, from About Pileus at Flickr. Try working backwards from these R&D photos at Pileus / Pool / Tags / umbrella. by 22n: The Pileus System is a mobile tangible browser to make rainy days fun. The system is constructed by the Pileus Umbrella and the Pileus WebService. User can see and take a photo and video with the PileusUmbrella. User can hand on own experience in rainy day to next user with an umbrella type photoset. User Connects the Grip with the Screen, then the Grip reads the Screen’s ID and login to own Pileus Account. When user takes photos or videos, Pileus WebService evaluates media-type of data and uploads it to Flickr or YouTube, and then set a tag by screen ID. In addition, user twists the grip, it searchs contents at Flickr and YouTube by tag of screen ID, and displays contents in order. The name has some historical ancestry as an overhead object -- as a tall peaked hat (Make a Phrygian-style pileus) and as "a smooth cloud found attached to either a mountain top or growing cumulus tower." (photo); more at Wikipedia. There is a Pileus.net, where some more photos are tucked beneath a thick set of news headlines. Clicking on those photos led to the locked door of private Flickr photos. I had to log in to Flickr to find that out, though, so we're not looking at the public URL there.
Posted by Sheila Lennon |
my passport photo blogging since 2002 garden blogs archived headlines  Sheila Lennon is features & interactive producer of projo.com, the Web site of The Providence (R.I.) Journal Rhode Island |
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