SMS+Slingshot

VR/Urban: Christian Zöllner (German, born 1981), Patrick Tobias Fischer (German, born 1980), Thilo Hoffmann (German, born 1980), and Sebastian Piatza (German, born 1985) of VR/Urban (Germany, est. 2008)
 * SMSlingshot**

The SMSlingshot marries the traditional weapon with digital technology, splattering information onto facades and other surfaces that then serve as public screens. The battery-powered device is a wooden slingshot with a display screen, keypad, and laser. Users can store and type text messages and then release the slingshot to blast them onto surfaces, where they appear within a splash of color and linger as long as the performers decide, and the text is tweeted at the same time. VR/Urban considers the SMSlingshot an intervention against increasingly commercialized urban space, which is thus reclaimed and occupied through virtual tags. The device fuses a prehistoric tool, vibrant urban art, and innovative technology into a product that encourages interaction, information, and empowerment in the city. (Source: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome/objects/146401/)

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