Ikea hacking never gets old , but this goes beyond your medium mod : An fundamental interaction room decorator namedMarc Duboishas convey three cheap - o Ikea merchandise and modified them to act as accountant for screen background games .
Dubois created three controllers : One from a background lamp , one from a wooden ball , and one from a simple box , each powered by an iPhone invest inside the objects . These three shapes — cone , sphere , and cube — human activity as basic tangible interfaces thanks to the iPhone ’s internal sensor . The domain and cube both bet on the telephone ’s gyroscope , which can find 3 - axis cause . The cone uses the light detector , learn how much light is being smooth on the surface of the lampshade :
Game controllers are n’t much use without a game , so Dubois built that too . It ’s called Collidem , and it ’s all about fill out strong-arm tasks with the objects :
The project was created at University of Art and Design in Lausanne , Switzerland , so it ’s unclear whether there ’ll ever be a chance for us to toy it . But it would n’t be too hard to build up these low - tech control for yourself . Dubois even created elaborated direction to do just that — in the sort of an Ikea manual , of row . [ Prosthetic Knowledge;Marc Dubois ]
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