Gadgetory

this year the Frog party our theme is the other singularity because we talked about this singularity itself it gets really heady fast right you're talking about raspberry site to let you like to stay in a water for 20 minutes or solving social ills or even internal life then there's the other singularity hey everybody it's been popping from the verge we're here for the opening night party at South by Southwest Interactive this party is put on every year by the folks at frog design and it's two things it's a chance for nerves to get really drunk together and it's kind of a chance to talk and think about some of the bigger ideas and technologies so this is an interactive books project to put together by frog and the idea is that in the near future light is going to be cheaper than ink so the way the books work is that their projections and as you turn the page it changes to a new image so I think perhaps in the future instead of creating something with expensive costly in we just have these books made of light that can always change so what you guys see behind me is an installation called zen and the art of the robot now this is a Zen garden you rake it you think you meditate you find the meaning of life but why would you do all that work if a robot can find inner peace for you the folks at frog design had their partners in China make this it's kind of like a giant light right people have these electronics paint brushes and they can go up there and change the lights to whatever color they want what's really interesting about it for them the price right now is about a used car but next year the price of building this could be as much as they used smartphone