fishtank!
Fishtank! is a fun little side technology demo I worked on as part of my job at HP Labs Bristol working on the mscape project.
The way it worked was that each delegate at the recent mscape fest 2007 conference carried a 2d barcode on their identity badge. You could then use one of the ipaq 6815 devices to scan the 2d barcode and choose a fish type, and a fish with that person's name appeared in a digital fishtank on a large-screen plasma display in the refreshment 'n' networking area of the conference. You could also feed the fish - which caused them to grow in size, or, by scanning a barcode again poison or 'lurve' the fish.
It was designed to showcase the 2d barcode reading technology that had recently been introduced into the mscape toolkit, a suite of software applications designed to allow creative people to build location-sensitve applications (a.k.a mediascapes).
I created the Flash front end animation of the tank, which was themed to look a little bit like a 24-hour news channel, even down to the scrolling news feed at the bottom of the screen.
Fishtank! Screenshot
