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Text Messaging-Enabled Crystal Chandelier Shown In Milan
An anonymous reader writes "The Austrian crystal manufacturer Swarovski showed a chandelier capable of displaying text messages via SMS at last week's Milan furniture fair. The Ron Arad-designed piece was at the
center of the attention during the opening show, with hundreds of partygoers sending
uncensored messages to the chandelier. More info can be found at the official Swarovski site, and photos of the construction are available at the manufacturer's website."
Someone send http://www.goatse.cx to that chandelier.
Next thing you know, it's making deals with Lore and wiping out entire plants.
The chandelier ships with the default message "Hey you down there...you have waaay too much money."
If I could make this sig kill you, I would.
"Hey! U! Yeah, U! The hot blonde Swedish chick at the IKEA booth. Wanna hook up? Here's my # ......."
Drill baby drill - on Mars
It would be nice to walk in and have Slashdot headlines rolling above me...
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This is a pickpocket's dream. The chiropractor will make out like a bandit, too, with everyone's neck craned upward to the ceiling all the time.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Step 1: Build a chrystal chandelier that displays SMS messages.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
If only they could make the same thing with those phones each one of us has at home to do the same thing ?
Maybe we could carry around those phones and even trade messages with each others..
Oh..wait..
It's clean, elegant, and only a few steps from a space elevator...
How Arad needs 30-odd processors to display SMS on a rectalinear grid is beyond me, however,
oh brave new world, that has such people in it!
Oh yeah, well I have an XML toothbrush. Neener neener on you Chandelier people.
No, this is for elegant *nix hackers to display the status of their servers without clashing with the decor!
Or a way Bill Gates can stay updated on MSFT stock prices and his net worth (and any new lawsuits).
Or deploy them in Las Vegas - "THIS CHANDELIER IS PAID FOR.....GUESS HOW.....THAT'S RIGHT.....WITH YOUR MONEY!"
www.eFax.com are spammers
Do you pull up a web page to see what time it is? Of course not?you look at a wall clock, or your watch? why not do the same for weather?
:-)
Why not just take a look out of the window?
As tempting as it is to buy a $30,000 text-messaging chandelier, I'm holding out until they invent the text-messaging disco ball.
When that comes out... oh, man. Boogeying will never be the same.
Coming soon to those large, ugly chandeliers found in hotel function rooms.
>Why not just take a look out of the window?
:)
Geek-heretic.
---JRJ
jrjBlog
wonderful, now we get a light fixture that can be 0wned or wormed, and we'll be in the dark as well as spammed at the table. abort, retry, relamp?
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Oh great, it's called "Lolita."
Good luck finding any info on a chandelier after Googling THAT word...
Yup...
How long untill the chandelier reads "f1rst p0st!1!1-w00t!!11!11" ?
> some of us find watches (and all jewelery) to be uncomfortable and unnecessary
I feel the same way about pants.
your ballroom
Ah, yes, the ballroom. Getting new marble floors in mine next week. Geeves has been very good at coordinating all the work. Good chap, that Geeves. On the same note, Slashdot keeps rejecting my "Ask Slashdot: Upgrading your Ballroom to IPv6?" story (and all my other ballroom related stories.)
1st chndlier post!!!
/.ed da chndlier!
in soviet rssa,chndlier enbls U!
imgn a Bwlf clustr of thse!
dos it rn linux?
1)mke txt chndlier 2)?? 3)Profit!
hey natalie:P wna get nkd&petrfied?i got hot grits!;)
y00 d00ds we
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This just in...
After having seent the phrase on a mysterious, technophillic chandelier, teenagers in Milan have begun adopting "A/S/L????" into their vocabluary. No clues yet as to what this cryptic code might mean. News at 11.
I have discovered a truly marvelous
Why, has somebody come up with a sky-clock or projected temperature/weather/etc report? :-)
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This is the cute vorpal bunny virus, copy to your sig or runaway, runaway in fear!
... you insensitive clod!!!
(OTOH, it is in So.Cal., so weather is the same all year long anyway...)
Paul B.
Pointless and impractical as it would be, I'd love to see a big Diamondvision-esque display screen where all the pixels are Swarovski crystals like on that chandelier. I'm imagining it as some big, beautiful extravagance for a James Bond-esque villain to use as the centerpiece of his subter-volcanoian lair. Then Cate Archer comes in. She's been swimming and her hair is wet. Our eyes meet, and she walks towards me. I offer her champagne.
"Only if you drop the Walther PPK you have hidden in the small of your back," she says.
"How did you know?" I ask.
"I've been watching you," says Cate, "and though you're an evil mastermind, I find myself irresistably drawn to you. I'd undress, but I should answer that phone first."
Phone?
waitaminnit...
Oh, DAMMIT! I'm still at work.
grr.
Thats a great idea until the number gets out and you have some kid in kentucky SMS'ing "go fcsk yourself" to the chandelier some 4 star general is standing under in Belgium.
I do security
...with hardware-accelerated T&L 3D chandeliers coming out next year.
Like geekdom wasn't an expensive enough hobby already. Now your $15k household furnishings go obsolete in a few years, too.
Cheers
-b
If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
enjoy my SPAM during dinner!