block Beijing — the future of sportswoman is appear at SIGGRAPH 2008 in LA . This softball - sized Bouncing Star rubber ball has a clump of full - color LEDS , an infrared transceiver and an accelerometer under its impact - friendly shell . By combining these components , the ball can create bright interactional games that you play by themselves , or with an interactional display . Here , the base itself is a screen with the form of a court projected onto it , that responds to the ball ’s movement .
The game in the TV above requires each player to essay to hit a projected target on the court with the Bouncing Star . As a player picks up the glob and begins to befuddle it on the court , the accelerometer in the ball acknowledges motion and transform the orchis ’s color . Using infrared , the ball can interact with the digital tourist court ; when the testis touches down or races by , the court can expose a motion graphic or some other cool visual response .
Because of the scurvy light in the picture above , the intensity of the egg ’s fundamental interaction with the presentation was not well document , but the musical theme of a Lucille Ball wirelessly interact with a digital tribunal is vestal genius . If the same rule of this Bouncing Star could be integrate into all fun using balls , we would have some amazing games to play and to watch . In Tron , the crazy Frisbee biz was just a program inside of a figurer , but this Tron - like tech — designed by engineers at Japan ’s University of Electro - Communications — could soon happen in veridical life . You listen this , Nintendo ? [ Bouncing Star at SIGGRAPH ]
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