Curious Displays by Julia Yu Tsao
Posted by Bobby Solomon • March 4, 2010 • Technology

I’m a sucker for futuristic devices that could make our day-to-day a little bit easier, and these Curious Display definitely seem like a great idea. Created by Julia Yu Tsao, these tiny robots feature vibrant displays on their backs, and cluster together like ants or bees, helping each other out to create messages, locate items or even transform into a display to watch movies (I don’t use the word “television” anymore, it’s really not very true anymore, especially in this case).

I love the idea of having these little robotic helpers basically giving me status updates in real life. It’s the idea of bridging the digital and physical world that I find so interesting. And if they’re adaptable, say being able to climb up walls or transform to complete a particular task, then that makes them all the more valuable. A really great idea which I’d love to start seeing more of.

Bobby

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  1. seeing that irl would creep me out, but i’d be cool at the same time.

    Comment by chris — March 4, 2010 #

  2. @Chris – Yeah, I think our pop culture has taught us to fear robots, which to me is a big problem. We need to accept robotics as the next frontier.

    Comment by Bobby — March 4, 2010 #

  3. @Bob – the ambient noises used in the video reiterate this fear. “Water the Dying Plant”…harsh.

    Comment by Dusty — March 4, 2010 #

  4. Wow, Julia really did an amazing job! Watching this robotic plague is scary and funny at the same time, though I’m not sure if I’d want them around the house… I suppose Bob is correct, but I still think that anything that creeps and can break up and reassemble at its will, it must be no good (remember the bad guy in “Terminator 2″?) ;)

    Comment by albaper — March 5, 2010 #

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  7. It reminds me of Michael Chriton’s book “Prey.” Perhaps we do need to accept robotics as the new frontier and those little robots are kind of cool. I could always use help with little things but I am still creeped out by them.

    Comment by Erin — March 7, 2010 #

  8. i found this to be very blissful.

    Comment by trav — March 9, 2010 #