Comments on: Sometimes You Want To Glow

Sometimes You Want To Glow

fandango_matt — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:29:42 -0800

The iBar (Interactive Bar). YouTube link.

By: wumpus

wumpus — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:35:46 -0800

looking forward to the iSeizure

By: stenseng

stenseng — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:50:30 -0800

iSpilledMyDrinkAndShortedOutYouriBarOMG

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:53:06 -0800

Cool. Reminds me of a countertop version of a plasma ball.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:54:27 -0800

Uh... I don't get it.

By: zouhair

zouhair — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:09:32 -0800

I think after 15 min you'll get fed up with that stuff

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:11:58 -0800

Only tangentially related, but I read this article on bartending myths the other day and it was semi-interesting.

By: dflemingdotorg

dflemingdotorg — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:14:19 -0800

Uh... I don't get it. It...it's not a puzzle. Seriously.

By: crunchyk9

crunchyk9 — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:17:43 -0800

Cameras above and projectors below. Not strictly touch-sensitive but still fun to look at. I bet the bartenders get really tired of the same questions over and over. Gotta get old.

By: Mach3avelli

Mach3avelli — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:33:30 -0800

Gotta start crying once the fat, ugly drunk girls with their big heels decide it's not a party until they start dancing atop the bar.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:45:21 -0800

Historically, this type of bar has been problematic

By: Serial Killer Slumber Party

Serial Killer Slumber Party — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:15:43 -0800

So it tells you where your drink is or your hands are. Should you want to know, it will tell you where other people's drinks and hands are. Handy. "Oh god, is someone else touching the bar? I NEED to know if someone else is touching the bar. What if they are?"

By: QuietDesperation

QuietDesperation — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:26:53 -0800

There used to be a hamburger joint in Greenwich Village that brought your burger out on a Lionel electric train flatcar. This is about as interesting.

By: wfc123

wfc123 — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:41:35 -0800

Lost interest at :07

By: scheptech

scheptech — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:54:28 -0800

I kept waiting for it to do something... else.

By: redteam

redteam — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:58:30 -0800

gayBar. There's one, maybe two girls total. Ok, the guys all have their shirts on, but still, one of them's all on e feeling up the bar.

By: owhydididoit

owhydididoit — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:42:29 -0800

my cats would love it.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:15:36 -0800

Hell. My walls have been doing that non-stop since 1971. Call me back when I can play Pong on it.

By: D.C.

D.C. — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:38:33 -0800

Cameras above and projectors below. Not strictly touch-sensitive but still fun to look at. If that were true there would be a lot more illuminated blobs on the surface. According to the website: ". . . Integrated video-projectors can project any content on the milky bar-surface. The intelligent tracking system of iBar detects all objects touching the surface. . . . [V]irtual objects can be 'touched' with the fingers. The iBar system is ready to be installed completely into any kind of bar-counter, there's no need for any further installations on the ceiling or something like that. The software is flexible and can be adjusted and enhanced." If it's that open-ended, it should be possible to write Pong for it. They should have shown/created more effects for their video. It's like writing a screen saver engine but only demoing one module.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:08:00 -0800

Looks like they're using bounding boxes to prune edges of the graph outside of about 4 or 5 feet. Which is very sensible, but also a bit of a disappointment--once the novelty wears off, the most fun you could have with this thing is throwing a couple pockets full of change on the bar and watching an N² algorithm try to keep up.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:36:46 -0800

It clearly does have some algorithm limitation with regard to dramatically reduced framerate as the number of objects increases, which is unfortunate, and leads to "impressive" demos, but shitty real-world performance.

By: Doublewhiskeycokenoice

Doublewhiskeycokenoice — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:06:06 -0800

It looks pretty cool, but it also looks like the kind of thing that would only appear in the kind of bars I would never want to frequent.