dangling string

20 May 2005

danglingstring.jpga 8 foot piece of plastic wire, hanging from a small electric motor mounted in the ceiling, visualizing the information flowing through a monitored Ethernet cable nearby through twitching & whirling. placed in an unused corner of a hallway, the long string is visible & audible from many offices without being obtrusive. designed in 1995, is this the earliest example of (electronic) ambient visualization? [ubiq.com]

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