Text Messaging-Enabled Crystal Chandelier Shown In Milan 141
An anonymous reader writes "The Austrian crystal manufacturer Swarovski showed a chandelier capable of displaying text messages via SMS at last week's Milan furniture fair. The Ron Arad-designed piece was at the
center of the attention during the opening show, with hundreds of partygoers sending
uncensored messages to the chandelier. More info can be found at the official Swarovski site, and photos of the construction are available at the manufacturer's website."
Glance-able technology (Score:5, Interesting)
As a user of the SPOT watch, I can say that the argument "Yeah, but I can look that information up in my web browser or on my cell phone" doesn't hold up in the real world: there's a difference between actively looking something up and simply glancing at an object on the wall, or being peripherally aware of a more subtle way of indicating the status of something important to you. (Another great ambient device, the Orb [slashdot.org], glows in a different color based on Internet-based information.) Do you pull up a web page to see what time it is [slashdot.org]? Of course not--you look at a wall clock, or your watch... why not do the same for weather? For stock quotes? For Instant Messages? For traffic information? Heck... your Slashdot karma?
I hope that this kind of technology (in less gaudy form than this hideous chandelier) takes off. I really think it is useful. However, in terms of text messaging or Instant Messages, they are less useful because of the inherent one-way nature of the devices. However, my wife sends IMs to my SPOT watch all the time.
Ambient Devices (Score:4, Informative)
Just go to AmbientDevices.com [ambientdevices.com] to check out the orb and the dashboard.
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:3, Funny)
> some of us find watches (and all jewelery) to be uncomfortable and unnecessary
I feel the same way about pants.
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:1)
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:1)
but thats ok cause I find a wall clock or a computer screen or a vcr (with clock) everywhere I am with a single glance.
but on the other hand I see many SMS too late cause I just dont have a look at my phone.
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:2)
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:5, Funny)
Why not just take a look out of the window?
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:3, Funny)
Geek-heretic.
---JRJ
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:1)
My office does not have a window... (Score:5, Funny)
(OTOH, it is in So.Cal., so weather is the same all year long anyway...)
Paul B.
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:1)
What about ppl living in their parents' basement, you inconsiderate clod!
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:2)
Because this [216.36.143.13] is much cooler!
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:1)
Looking out the window can only tell you the level of cloudiness, and if its raining or snowing. It doesnt tell you the temperature, humidity, or wind speed (maybe if you have some trees nearby you can get a rough indication of wind speed).
In an area where temperatures can vary considerably, an accurate measure of tempoerature especially in the winter is important before venturing outside.
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:3, Interesting)
And by the way, I this this chandelier idea sucks, it's not hacker's technology, it's art and advertisement combined.
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:2)
You hit the nail on the head. I could just see supervisors of all types loving that feature. Forget how annoying e-mail can be, wait until your boss sends task assignments to your watch. (And expects it to be done by the time you glance at it.)
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:3, Interesting)
This chandelier us crap, IMO. OK, the basic technology is interesting, but it is a nasty tackification. IF it had slowly morphing GEOMETRIC patterns, it might be interesting, because it might be considered moving art. Splashing text onto a chandelier is just lame.
Re:Glance-able technology (Score:1)
No, I hit "~" to bring down the console, then enter "!time" and convert to my timezone.
I can quit playing ET anytime, really, I swear it.
Re:send it, ladies! (Score:1, Informative)
This is how the Crystalline Entity gets started (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is how the Crystalline Entity gets started (Score:5, Funny)
Default (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Default (Score:2, Funny)
And notify female invitees to wear turtle-neck shirts. Or not. But don't blame me.
Re:Default (Score:3, Funny)
Whadda ya mean the chandelier just crashed?
I know what I'd send... (Score:5, Funny)
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Feel like dancing? (Score:2)
You'd HAVE to be in order to read it.
Pickpockets dream (Score:5, Funny)
Step 1: Build a chrystal chandelier that displays. (Score:4, Funny)
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
Re:Step 1: Build a chrystal chandelier that displa (Score:3, Interesting)
Step 2: Sell for tons of money.
Step 3: Profit!
Makes perfect sense. The profit margins on luxury items are sweet.
I think the chandelier is really cool. Upscale nightclubs probably spend several hundred thousand on interior design. Since you can buy a $6 beer anywhere, those kind of clubs need something unique to draw customers.
Casinos might use something like this. Instead of allowing people to send messages, they would advertise shows and
Re:Step 1: Build a chrystal chandelier that displa (Score:2)
Step 2 is always "EBAY IT"!
Re:Step 1: Build a chrystal chandelier that displa (Score:2)
2. ?
3. prft!
Re:Step 1: Build a crystal chandelier that display (Score:1)
Hey.. (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe we could carry around those phones and even trade messages with each others..
Oh..wait..
From the subway to the ballroom (Score:5, Insightful)
Ooooooh, shiney!! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:From the subway to the ballroom (Score:2, Funny)
Ah, yes, the ballroom. Getting new marble floors in mine next week. Geeves has been very good at coordinating all the work. Good chap, that Geeves. On the same note, Slashdot keeps rejecting my "Ask Slashdot: Upgrading your Ballroom to IPv6?" story (and all my other ballroom related stories.)
Re:From the subway to the ballroom (Score:2)
Did you perchance mean Jeeves [ask.com], by Wodehouse [eclipse.co.uk]?
Re:From the subway to the ballroom (Score:2)
Fuck 'Lolita' (Score:2, Funny)
It's clean, elegant, and only a few steps from a space elevator...
How Arad needs 30-odd processors to display SMS on a rectalinear grid is beyond me, however,
top this! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:top this! (Score:5, Funny)
so if you brush in the morning, but don't close out the day by brushing at night, your day is invalid?
Re:I want one for my bedroom. (Score:2)
Not SMS - Log messages! (Score:3, Funny)
Or a way Bill Gates can stay updated on MSFT stock prices and his net worth (and any new lawsuits).
Or deploy them in Las Vegas - "THIS CHANDELIER IS PAID FOR.....GUESS HOW.....THAT'S RIGHT.....WITH YOUR MONEY!"
A better application (Score:5, Funny)
As tempting as it is to buy a $30,000 text-messaging chandelier, I'm holding out until they invent the text-messaging disco ball.
When that comes out... oh, man. Boogeying will never be the same.
Re:A better application (Score:2)
I'm betting that one comes preinstalled with "FREAKAZOIDS REPORT TO THE DANCE FLOOR".
(Christ, I'm old...)
Practical use (Score:5, Interesting)
Wow! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Wow! (Score:3, Funny)
"Only if you drop the Walther PPK you have hidden in the small of your
Re:Wow! (Score:2)
Now, with Advertising! (Score:5, Funny)
Come on people. (Score:1, Insightful)
Is this still Slashdot?
Re:Come on people. (Score:1)
Re:Come on people. (Score:2)
In other words, All your phrase are belong to us.
just fscking peachy (Score:5, Funny)
Unfortunate name (Score:5, Funny)
Good luck finding any info on a chandelier after Googling THAT word...
Re:Unfortunate name (Score:1)
How long untill..... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How long untill..... (Score:1)
good thing the phone number wasnt posted... (Score:5, Funny)
in soviet rssa,chndlier enbls U!
imgn a Bwlf clustr of thse!
dos it rn linux?
1)mke txt chndlier 2)?? 3)Profit!
hey natalie:P wna get nkd&petrfied?i got hot grits!;)
y00 d00ds we
Re:good thing the phone number wasnt posted... (Score:3, Funny)
More likely:
Re:good thing the phone number wasnt posted... (Score:2)
1ts a trap!
id hit it
i fnd this dfcult 2 msturbte 2
Re:good thing the phone number wasnt posted... (Score:2)
Re:good thing the phone number wasnt posted... (Score:1)
Re:good thing the phone number wasnt posted... (Score:2)
You've got too many characters in that, then. Try
LURbseRblng2us.
Recent Headlines (Score:3, Funny)
After having seent the phrase on a mysterious, technophillic chandelier, teenagers in Milan have begun adopting "A/S/L????" into their vocabluary. No clues yet as to what this cryptic code might mean. News at 11.
Reading between the lines (Score:5, Insightful)
You gotta admit, nothing says "I have more money than brains" than a text-messaging chandelier that costs more than a new car.
Your wealthy dinner guests will be awed for about ten minutes, while your less-wealthy friends snicker at you behind their napkins.
Offtopic. (Score:2, Interesting)
In the end, learned that a pretty popular basketball (NBA) star is currently paying $2700 a MONTH on a brand new 760.
And it's only a lease.
Christ, I clear a little more than that each month, and some people can afford that for a CAR payment???
Re:Reading between the lines (Score:2)
Re:Reading between the lines (Score:2)
While they snicker back and attach a bumper sticker to their porsche that says "My other car is a THIRTY FUCKING DOLLAR Chandelier! Not your lame Taurus!"
hmm (Score:1)
Hope it's unlisted (Score:3, Funny)
slashdot effect.... (Score:1)
So stupid to buy text-based chandeliers... (Score:2, Funny)
33 processors (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:33 processors (Score:2)
I guess they probably thought they could impress people by saying it has lots of processors.
Coming soon to a McMansion near you! (Score:1)
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Now I can (Score:2, Funny)
Seriously though... (Score:1)
There is a market for this, though - despite the protests of you naysayers. My only question is - how the hell did monkeys get ahold of enough money to buy one of these?
Can I get one for the office? (Score:2)
C'mon, boss.. please? Since you said no to the plasma display, you owe me!
Wow, a more convenient way for them to spam me... (Score:3, Informative)
You would be sitting at dinner with the lights beeping every 20 seconds and messages showing up saying
Natural herb increases size by 50-100%
Drunk high school girls waiting for you at badpornsite.com
I'm thinking I'll take a pass on the text messaging enabled chandelier.
Boring... (Score:1)
If only someone had something interesting to say.. (Score:1)
Hey--, here's an interesting thought-- why is it do you suppose, that they haven't started sticking advertising in bathrooms-- or maybe they have and I just haven't encountered any as of yet.
What makes them so sacred that the ad agencies fear to tread? Seems like they have a captive audience for a few minutes that ISN'T being bombarded with pitches (kinda nice, actually), but I don't reall see what's holding them back...
Then again, maybe they're afraid that stuff'll get peed or dumped on (and they're pro
Re:If only someone had something interesting to sa (Score:1)
why is it do you suppose, that they haven't started sticking advertising in bathrooms
Coming soon to a bathroom near you [urinal.net]?
Of course there's been advertising in bathrooms ever since there was a bathroom if you count the "Call 0900-HOTSEX for a really good time!" type.
Re:If only someone had something interesting to sa (Score:1)
They do stick advertising in the bathrooms, at least here around San Francisco. There is often a large poster on the inside of the bathroom stall door with multiple ads. I can't say I remember what they're ads for, but I do know they're there.
Re:If only someone had something interesting to sa (Score:2)
eh. underwhelming... (Score:2, Insightful)
What next?! (Score:1)
My leather reclinerwill accept incoming SMS messages in a vibrate mode!
A message seen on the chandelier... (Score:1)