Imagine creating a large screen out of a collection of randomly scattered mobile phones - and that is what a team at MIT's Center for Future Civic Media has managed to achieve.
MT's Rick Borovoy released the Junkyard Jumbotron project, which allows laptops or phones in close proximity to be ganged together to form a large display.
The Junkyard Jumbotron requires no special software; it is simply a web page that receives real-time updates from their server, allowing scrolling, zooming, and soon video.
Rick developed the project as part of a larger suite of tools that he calls the Brown Bag Toolkit, all oriented around making technology work better with face-to-face interactions, like meetings, canvasing, or chance encounters.
The software is in a Beta stage, and released as an Open Source project.
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