22 February 2013

‘LEGO from Mars’: Magical, Glowing Rocks That Interact With People

[Click here to view the video in this article]







The Netherlands-based social design lab Studio Roosegaarde’s newest innovation is a collection of 700 magical rocks—that light up upon human interaction—named CRYSTAL.



Each CRYSTAL is of a unique geometric shape and encapsulates small LEDs—the lighting behavior, or “breathing”, of these fascinating rocks changes when visitors move, add or share them.



CRYSTAL’s open-source shareability makes it similar to a LEGO building block, where people can activate their own glowing rock, for sharing with friends and as something to build upon.



Watch the video below to see them in action:



CRYSTAL by Studio Roosegaarde from Daan Roosegaarde on Vimeo.


































[via Studio Roosegaarde]