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MIT's Soaring 'Flyfire' 3-D Display Concept Floats Our Boat

by Matthew Zuras on February 20, 2010 at 10:30 AM


Those mad geniuses at MIT have come up with a concept for a floating display that's left us floored. Utilizing small drone helicopters, MIT's SENSEable City Lab hopes to create a flying, multi-dimensional display system called Flyfire that can present dynamic images in living color. Each drone is equipped with LEDs and would apparently float in sync with the rest of its robot comrades. Check out an amazing concept video from MIT after the break.

We truly hope that, if the Flyfire technology gets off the ground (so to speak), it would be employed by artists and audio-visual designers rather than by advertisers. Can you imagine a future in which plane crashes are caused by massive, gliding Pepsi ads? What a sad, sad way to go. [From: MIT, via: Engadget]

Tags: drone, floating display, FloatingDisplay, flyfire, helicopers, mit, senseablecitylab, top

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