Junkyard Jumbotron

Rick Borovoy, a research scientist at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, just released the Junkyard Jumbotron project. It allows laptops or phones in close proximity to be ganged together to form a large display.

The Junkyard Jumbotron requires no special software; it is simply a web page that receives real-time updates from our server, allowing scrolling, zooming, and soon video. Like all software at the Center, it is free and open.

Rick developed the project as part of a larger suite of tools that he calls the Brown Bag Toolkit, all oriented around making technology work better with face-to-face interactions, like meetings, canvasing, or chance encounters.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• telephony
• technology
• display
• Rick Borovoy
• Center for Future Civic Media