Firefighters To Find Their Way Out Of Burning Buildings With… Glowing Neon Balls?
Life Pebbles won the grand prize award at the Seoul Design Competition, promising to help firefighters combat the disorientation of a burning by dropping a trail of neon-glowing capsules like Hansel-and-Gretel-style breadcrumbs on the way in. Interesting, perhaps, but at a time when location-aware augmented reality via all kinds of heads-up displays (and even mobile phones) is becoming more reality than dream, is a canister of periodically dropped glowing neon balls inspired by a fucking creepy 16th-century fairy tale really the answer to this problem? [Aving]
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The image in my mind: Me trying to find a loose nut that just went rolling down the floor!
I’ve seen this winning project from the Seoul Olympiads but somehow i fail to understand why everyone else can’t understand the fact that spherical pebbles tend to ROLL.. who knows, maybe out of sight? in a possible caotic environment as say in a building going up in flames. Maybe a small change in the FORM of the luminescent pebbles would perhaps keep it from rolling away fro the path. Wouldn’t it?
This said, i think there is a beauty in this design as an analogy for Hanzel and Grettel’s story.