The Future Playground

eldavojohn writes "The BBC has an article on the London Science Museum's exhibit 'The Future Playground' which showcases some new technologies that may transform gaming. You may recognize some of these technologies as 'old news' but it's the way they're being utilized for gaming that makes this interesting. The most interesting one is the inflatable display which the article describes: 'The Puffer Sphere is an inflatable ball on which images can be projected, said Oliver Collier — one of its creators. Mr Collier said the idea of using the inflatable as a display grew out of an undergraduate project at the University of Edinburgh to use it as the basis for an interactive art installation.'"

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ah

[Swimport]

I remember when if you got hit in the head with a swing, you got a concussion. Now that was a playground.

Re:ah

[Anonymous Coward]

And after you were hit by the swing, you were knocked to the ground where you'd skin your knees on gravel...

I watched the elementary school playground down the street from me go from having gravel to wood chips to that rubbery playmat stuff made from old tires in the span of 10 years. And all of the wooden "castles" and whatnot were replaced with kid-sized habitrail tubes (you'd think they would've at least kept the wood chips for that).

Re:ah

[elrous0]

Ha, you had a hospital, huh? Luxury.

In my day, they'd just patch a broken arm up with some twine and sticks and send you back into the fields to work.

-Eric

windows version

[theMerovingian]

Here is a pic of the Puffer Sphere running Windows

Re:twine AND sticks?

[silentounce]

You were lucky. In my day we didn't have arms. We just wallowed around in the mud content with our flagellum. And we LIKED it.