Aug 24 2007Cell Phone Graffiti
Mark Ecko, of Ecko Unlimited, is designing "digital citylights" that people can interact with using their cell phones via Bluetooth interface. You walk up to one of these monster LCD screens and spray digital graffiti with the cursor of your phone. Allegedly they're going to be released in Germany, the land of the color changing bus stop, to see how they go over. And by go over I think they mean how long until they're covered in real paint, with tags like "RAZ" and "SPATZ" and huge blue dongs. I'm gonna have to go with instantly.
Cell Phone Graffiti [gizmodo]
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Reader Comments
1. Saints_andrew - August 24, 2007 10:50 AM
Whats to stop some punk coming along with a spray can and just painting on it for real. I suppose thats why they are putting them up in germany and not england. They wouldn't last 2 minutes in London
2. Ashninja - August 24, 2007 11:24 AM
freaking sweet!
3. TQ - August 24, 2007 12:30 PM
#1 - true.
4. uruwai - August 24, 2007 3:22 PM
They do it on germany because people there have brains.
In their cupboards mainly.
Canned brain!
Ubersweet!!!
5. joflo - August 24, 2007 3:38 PM
i'll never be bored waiting for a bus in germany.
6. seig heil - August 24, 2007 7:54 PM
do German mobiles have a swastike icon? Can't expose those mobile owning nationalists to this technology otherwise.
7. Haverhill - August 25, 2007 1:48 AM
It would be cool if they linked it online somehow, so you could watch what people are writing.