Mira Ball - Good Concept, Bad Design
September 27, 07 by You Teck
The Mira ball is surely one interesting gadget with a good concept as it has the capability to continuously displaying text and pictures around its 360 degree globe.
If you’re thinking what uses it could provide, here’s one which I could think of. If you’re the sort of people who tend to forget things easily, just hooked up a text reminder on the globe and anytime you look at your globe, you’ll be reminded of what you’re suppose to do.
If the above is not good enough, here’s another, if you’ve got a colleague you want to hit on but don’t dare to make the first move, load a message such as “The chick/dude sitting beside me is hot” and viola, you’ve have a nice topic start a conversation on.
If the above 2 reasons are not good enough, go crack your brain and think of something else The other good thing about this device is it’s capability to upload pictures (don’t count too much into the resolutions) into it other than just plain text messages.
How it works is really simple as the texts or pictures are displayed by a electric motor that will drive the high brightness linear array LED lamps into high speed rotation.
I really love the concept of the Mira Ball at how it could display text that goes round in 360 degree. However, the design really put me off and it would be exceptionally cool if we could get one of the designers from Yanko Design to give it a really good face lift. Hmm, maybe Daan Van Tulder might be interested in it?
Priced at $33.78 USD, the Mira Ball is just 1 click away. In case you’re wondering, the ball can’t do any future prediction.
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