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Janak Parekh
04-28-2003, 06:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.invisibleideas.org' target='_blank'>http://www.invisibleideas.org</a><br /><br /></div>This sounds really cool -- has anyone in Boston checked this out?<br /><br />"SmartWorlds collaborates with HP, Bill Perry of pocketpcflash.net and Prosum Inc., and Boston's Nature and Inquiry artists group, to create the first integration of Flash, GPS and PocketPC in a location-aware art exhibit. Visitors borrow an HP iPAQ 5450 from the Copley Society of Art on Newbury Street and walk through the Boston Public Garden and Common. As they walk content is triggered based on their longitude and latitude and they see and hear ideas on the PDA. Once they return to the gallery the tracings of their walks are uploaded and displayed on a map of the area. Invisible Ideas was awarded First Jurors Prize by the Copley Society of Art!"<br /><br />There a semi-interactive demo on the site, and the exhibit apparently runs through May 10th.

Jacob
04-28-2003, 06:03 PM
Sounds pretty cool.

Sounds just like a much more modern version of previous methods of non-human led tours. I've seen museums before lend out tape players with headphones and it would just say "now go to your left and look at this painting.."

With this you can go wherever you want :D

lurch
04-28-2003, 06:06 PM
Sounds like Bill Gates' home.. I heard he's got flat-screen TVs on the walls, you program your art/music/etc preferences into the computer when you visit, and you wear a badge so that when you enter a room the art on the walls and the music change to match what you like...

Cool stuff!

Don't Panic!
04-28-2003, 06:15 PM
I'll probably go check it out this weekend but the webpage is taking forever to load and I'm on a T-1 line right now. I guess I'll have to check www.boston.com for more info.

Don't Panic!
Bobby

ctmagnus
04-29-2003, 01:56 AM
Is this affiliated in any way with Newburyopen.net (http://www.newburyopen.net/)?

Don Sorcinelli
04-30-2003, 03:52 PM
Over at BostonPocketPC.com, our won Steven "fyiguy" Hughes did a detailed writeup about this. He was in the area and took the full tour (and a lot of pictures).

You can check it all out at the BostonPocketPC.com web site (http://www.bostonpocketpc.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1426).

DonS

Don Sorcinelli
04-30-2003, 03:57 PM
Is this affiliated in any way with Newburyopen.net (http://www.newburyopen.net/)?
I cannot say for certain, but I did some checking around, and did not find any direct credits to the Newbury Open.Net project. The main sponsor (the Copley Society of Art) is really close to some of the Newbury Open.Net participants.

DonS

fyiguy
04-30-2003, 07:38 PM
Is this affiliated in any way with Newburyopen.net (http://www.newburyopen.net/)?

The staff at the CoSo said they will be adding a WiFi AP soon the help expand the Newbury Street Free WiFi access between Dartmouth and Exeter.

If you anyone is in NYC there is some Free WiFi coming downtown starting tomorrow, for more info check this out (http://www.bostonpocketpc.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1428).

:mrgreen: