{"id":1961,"date":"2007-10-03T16:34:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T10:42:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-08T18:20:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:20:06","slug":"tangible-bouncy-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/tangible-bouncy-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangible Bouncy Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThese balls are cool and useless &#8212; my definition of art and fun. They are large rubber balloons with colored lights in them which change color when punched. Unleashed into a crowd, they hop along blinking and reacting to the crowd. They are primitive examples of the future of fun: audience participation and the merging of the tangible and informatics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere is a description from the maker&#8217;s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tangibleinteraction.com\/\">Tangible Interaction Design<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nZYGOTE is a lightweight inflated ball, illuminated from within, that responds to pressure applied to its surface. Interacting with the ball is simple: punch it, bounce it, squeeze it, or tap it and the ball&#8217;s internal LEDs react instantaneously. Dozens of balls released to an energetic audience at a major music concert, transform the environment into a multi-sensorial, interactive playground, actively engaging the crowd in a shared experience. Each ball also can act as both an input and an output device by being networked to a central computer. This allows for more complex interaction, as the crowd can modify the graphics on a screen, make the balls light up in unison, or even affect the music.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nVideo that explains its mechanics and shows it in action.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" data=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=270719&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=00ADEF\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"showAll\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=270719&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=00ADEF\" \/><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/270719\/l:embed_270719\">Zygote Interactive Ball at BIP, Italy<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/tangible\/l:embed_270719\">Alex Beim<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/l:embed_270719\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These balls are cool and useless &#8212; my definition of art and fun. They are large rubber balloons with colored lights in them which change color when punched. Unleashed into a crowd, they hop along blinking and reacting to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/tangible-bouncy-fun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}