Pileus: the internet umbrella
From Planet Damage:
Pileus (”the internet umbrella!“) is a joint project by Takashi Matsumoto and Sho Hashimoto – it’s basically an amped up umbrella with access to Google Earth and Flickr (also having a screen surface, a built-in camera, a GPS, a motion sensor and a digital compass). You see a bird’s eye view on your surroundings in the inside of the Pileus, GPS and the digital compass keeps the overhead display updated, whereas you can take images with the built-in camera and upload them to your Flickr account with context tags
and of course, can you spot the ironic power source?
only in japan. run an awesome experimental augmented reality piece, power it off a gas generator.
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