Dark Knight cell wall exists
Posted on 05. Aug, 2008 by Jonathan Cherry in Design
If you thought that cellphone wall monitor which Batman uses to track the movements of The Joker in the Dark Knight movie was a clever idea, you’ll be interested to know that it does indeed exist.
It looks to be derived from Listening Post,
an art installation created by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin of Ear Studio.
The exhibit featured pieces of text gathered from public forums,
bulletin board, as well as thousands of unrestricted Internet chat
rooms in real time, which are then spoken by a voice synthesizer and
plastered across a grid of over 200 tiny electronic displays. [via Josh Spear]
Real time living captured on mobile phones – freaky, but plausible.
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Leon
05. Aug, 2008
Well Batman’s wall was more of a radar system developed by Cellphone information. The idea was that cellphone signals bounce of everything creating a radar image like a real bat does. Applications like Vodacom’s Look4Me or The Grid uses triangulated GSM signals to work like a primitive GPS but its accuracy is about a 5km radius which is pretty far of the detailed environments seen by Batman. It was a novel idea in the movie that with enough research seems very plausible but the art exhibition you refer to, although it may look the same, does something completely different. It merely uses public mobile information and displays it, not giving any detailed information.