Brilliant 'UFO' Controlled Remotely by SMS

Tag : LED Board


Clever, very clever. New York artist Peter Coffin teamed withLondon interactive architect Dominic Harris to launch a"UFO" of their own design earlier this month. Theairborne mystery pod produced shock and awe among citizens of asmall town last week when it hovered, lights aglow, in Gdansk,Poland.

Dubbed Peter Coffin's UFO Project , the 23-foot aluminum saucer incorporates 3,000 LED nodescontrolled by a solid-state computer, according to Harris, head of Cinimod Studio .
"On board, a 6 Kw generator provides the system power,"he said. "The overall UFO can be remotely controlled via SMSmessaging."
All we know is, the thing looks pretty damn cool (video embedded).
Photo: Michal Szlaga
[via pixelsumo.com ]
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