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Ambient Penguin Video

The video of DCJ’s ambient penguin is now online. You can see Roo’s hand setting his IM status and the penguin’s eyes changing colour accordingly. It’s currently set to display our manager’s status - gives us advance warning of when she’s about.

- Darren Shaw (Emerging Technology Services, IBM Hursley)

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2 Responses to “Ambient Penguin Video”

  1. gpoul’s Out Of Memory Blog » Penguins aware of Sametime Says:
    March 12th, 2006 at 7:07 pm

    [...] In case you wondered what cool tricks you can teach a little penguin, check out the video Darren Shaw posted on the eightbar blog. They built an IM-status-aware penguin they use, to know when their manager’s around. I’m sure they only use this to track her down to discuss the last details of their PBCs. It’s March after all and my inbox is already flooded with reminders. [...]

  2. eightbar » Blog Archive » Ambient Orbs, Rabbits, Penguins and the Availabot Says:
    July 5th, 2006 at 10:28 am

    [...] Eightbar has previously reported on the innovation project of a friend and colleague who is responsible for a wireless ambient penguin (see the a description and video). Using bi-colour LEDs, this ‘Wallace And Gromit’ inspired creation keeps track of our manager’s instant messaging status (off for online, green for active and red for away). [...]

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