Sprint Dashboard to the Universe - Plug Into Now

Posted by Nathan / Nov 6, 2008 to Infographics / 8 comments

Sprint Dashboard to the Universe - Plug Into Now

Sprint, in a promotion to their mobile Internet service, created this amusing futuristic dashboard. "All aboard the now machine," the computer says. "How about a big bowl of now?... Please keep your hands inside the moment...your hair has grown 5 millionths of centimeter in the last second." It's got tickers for eggs being produced, emails being sent, spam emails being received, recent news from The New York Times, CNN, newsvine, top Google searches of the day, and most importantly, seconds until doughnut day. That'd be a nice little screensaver - or something I'd have running 24/7 on a giant plasma.

Oh, and yes, that is my face in the middle.

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  • kez
    Nov 6, 2008, 6:49 am

    Nice!

    Despite the obvious over-exaggeration, it’s pretty nifty. I keep meaning to try my hand at attempting a real time dashboard…

    …anyone know of anything out there?

  • Kevin Carlson
    Nov 7, 2008, 3:42 pm

    Lots of possibilities if you’re a programmer - you could have a bunch of I-frames on a page, each running a query from a separate page, and reload pages automatically every x minutes using Refresh metatags. The graphics could be Java applets, GD graphics, Actionscript, etc.

    For non-programmers, there are commercial dashboards out there (haven’t used these myself).

  • Nathan
    Nov 7, 2008, 7:44 pm

    …or like the Sprint people, do it all in Flash

  • MattyFo
    Nov 10, 2008, 11:28 pm

    What a way to remind us how crazy our world is; I wonder what a personalized super dashboard would look like in 20 years. What information would I want to be pumped in front of me every second? What would be useful? I’ll go contemplate that and get back to you.

  • Nathan
    Nov 10, 2008, 11:34 pm

    @MattyFo - ok. i’ll be waiting.

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