ThingsAmongMany

Music has never played a large enough role in my life for DJ’ing to have much draw. Technology, however, does play a pretty significant role, and the thought of exploring VJ’ing has indeed crossed my mind (though the equipment prices have kept me from doing much with the thought). Next drool-worthy piece of technology? Check out this new VJ hardware from Cue:

Phenomenal mix of touchscreen, tactile instrumentation, and the sliding function of the single knob puts it over the edge. it’s still in the conceptual phase at the moment, but if I ever comes to light, I’m sure we’ll see more VJ’s cropping up at the clubs around NYC.

I can’t begin to describe how awesome this video is to me! Being a tech geek/web nerd as well as a long time climber, this is pretty much the culmination of all of my interests piled into a single video.

For those who haven’t done much gym climbing, routes or boulder problems on an indoor wall are usually marked off in colored tape. A small strip of tape next to a hold indicates that the hold is fair game for that route. This, of course, leads to a wall that’s covered in random strips of tape around every hold, eventually making it difficult to find the next move in the sequence.

To get around the issue, iOO Design, an interactive space design firm, created the interactive climbing wall. Routes are programmed into the computer and then projected in sequence onto the climbing wall allowing the climber to “follow” the light”. Check out their page for a little more info, or just watch the video: