ThingsAmongMany

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: