Monday, March 30, 2009

SpyCam Story #524 - Stretch a CCTV Budget

Poland - ...one of the country's most unusual hotels.

Blow Up Hall 50 50, a luxury hotel themed around electronic art, has opened in the city of Poznan, not far from Poland's border with Germany...

Various visual and musical installations are located throughout the hotel's communal spaces and 22 bedrooms, including Lozano-Hemmer's Blow-up, an interactive display that separates one surveillance camera view into 2,400 virtual cameras. (actually, one camera viewed on 2,400 screens in various ways)

In another innovation, guests at the hotel are given an iPhone instead of a key, which shows them to their room with a beam of light and opens their door using recognition technology. (more)