[davnicwil]

What an absolutely awesome idea. I love things like this that just blend software and information into the physical environment seamlessly.

I see stuff like this and just think, yeah, now we're living in the future :-D Kind of reminds you how cumbersome and inappropriate it can be to have to pull out a dedicated black slab of glass to access all your information.

The future (at least the one I want) without a doubt is information distributed throughout and blended with the rest of the 'physical' environment so it can be accessed in a truly interactive, head-up manner, not always funnelled and filtered through a singular device - be that VR, AR, or just a load of nicely designed physical interfaces like this one.

[jsingleton]

I believe the term for things like this is an 'information radiator'. The benefit of ambient displays is they're always on so you don't need to seek any information out. It's just there.

They're quite popular in the agile community. Digital signage and wallboards everywhere. The downside is you can become conditioned to them and not notice things over time.

This is quite old but sums is up: https://www.atlassian.com/wallboards/information-radiators.j...

[pluma]

You mean like a wall clock?

[jsingleton]

Yes, but why just stop at one clock?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-MxGvtK2Bk

[shitlord]

Take them with you wherever you go!

https://i.imgur.com/9tTFJdh.jpg

[pluma]

Like a portable wall clock? A port-a-clock if you will? What a brilliant idea. We could affix it to a strap of leather so you can carry it around your waist. Given a few years we could probably make it so small you could wear it on your wrist!

[phkahler]

You may also be interested in Jasper:

http://jasperproject.github.io/documentation/

So you can do voice activated mirrors.

[comrh]

They even specify using a Raspberry Pi in their documentation. I must think of a way to use this.