Android Developers Set Blinkenlights World Record

by Kevin Krause on January 14th, 2011 at 5:06 pm

Yesterday we mentioned the Google Developer Day event that took place in Germany, but we didn’t come across this cool little bit of Android awesomeness until today. Looks like a group of 72 Android developers got together to set a blinkenlights world record using the Blinkendroid app. What exactly does that entail? Blinkendroid allows a singular image or animation to be displayed across many screens, turning each small display into part of a much larger one. But why should I attempt to explain it? See for yourself below:

[via AndroidCommunity]


Blinkendroid

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Connect multiple devices and have them act as one big screen. Display animations or images and distribute them OTA to connected devices. Make sure all... Read More

Downloads 5,000-10,000

Developed by Andreas Schildbach

  • Jin

    Yay first. Congrats android. 0.o

  • Covert

    lol the xperia’s SUCK their screens are pathetic next to …. everything else haha

  • http://twitter.com/keyboardsurfer keyboardsurfer

    Our world record has also been acknowledged by the Guinness World Record committee: http://goo.gl/kn5zf

  • andytop

    @Jin

    First ..uy and first stupid comment. Keep going

  • http://yobif.com Yobif

    Proud to be a Android users

  • PT

    Is it me or does it look like those white X10s crapped out?

  • http://twitter.com/keyboardsurfer keyboardsurfer

    @PT: It’s due to the screens of the X10s. They’re working just fine.

  • Jin

    @andytop how is that a stupid comment? I just said i commented first and also said congrats android.

  • TJ

    @PT them white ones do spoil it … they should have replaced them … pity
    Very clever this

  • Hulk smash

    @andytop failed!

  • Robert W Rogier

    Am I the only one to not see any purpose in this app? Outside of a demo like this, Blinkendroid seems to be one of those completely useless apps that only look cool in a trade show. It’s not like I’m now going to go buy 50 or so Droids just to wow my friends or replace my nice TV.

  • http://sorrydesigns.com Eddie

    Blinken perfect if some phone manufacturers would design my dream phone with minimal bezel (border, useless spaces):

    http://sorrydesigns.com/sorrydesigns-mock-phone/

  • http://www.pooporchocolate.com/ teckel

    The X10′s didn’t crap out, it’s that their display is crap and really dim compared to the rest.

  • http://www.best7android.com Android World

    Wonderful to see.I have never seen something like it before.

  • http://beawareforum.blogspot.com iTony

    i like what android developers have done, very clever and its such an encouragement to young software engineers like me. i so wana be like these guys some day

  • appelflap

    Wow! I wonder how they controlled the matrix. Would be quite awesome if they built in some (Bluetooth) intelligence so that each device knew its place in the matrix by itself.

  • http://twitter.com/keyboardsurfer keyboardsurfer

    @appelflap: It’s an open source project. Try implementing it by yourself if you want to see it ;-) or create a ticket over here: http://code.google.com/p/blinkendroid/issues/list

  • appelflap

    @kbsurfer Nice!! Would also be awesome to do this with sounds. True high resolution surround sound! Imagine a long row of phones in a circle and a blinkenlight display in the middle. :P

  • Jeremy

    LOL the music and slow-mo @ ~ 3:00 are so overly dramatic.



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