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Yes, that is a device that is now sold by Lynch exhibits, I think  
they call it an iWall.  It was designed along with onomy designs from  
palo alto, who were the creators of the Experiments in the Future of  
Reading exhibit.  It was a fine exhibition, and apparently is living  
in storage now somewhere.  Where do old traveling exhibitions go to  
retire?

Eric Siegel


On Apr 14, 2006, at 9:05 PM, Clifford Wagner wrote:

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> If I'm remembering correctly, when the ASTC conference was in San  
> Jose there was a reading exhibit done by Zerox/Parc that had a neat  
> way of doing a timeline.  It was a flatscreen monitor visitors  
> could slide along a rack geared track.  The images would change  
> with the location of the monitor sliding across the timeline.  It's  
> a nice amount of visitor control, very enticing to get across  
> whatever it is you want to present.  I talked to someone there who  
> helped build it.  They said the biggest technical challenge was a  
> dampening system so the teenagers among us didn't wind up and slam  
> it into the end.
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