Instead of pixel graphics, Aquaplay uses rising air bubbles as a display technology. A fluid-filled transparent container is equipped with air vents in its base. To input the form you’d like to see, you use the touchpad connected to the built-in computer that controls the vents. The precisely formed patterns of air bubbles effervesce through the special fluid to form the requested pattern or block of text in 2-D or 3-D.

Aquaplay is this year’s recipient of [the next idea] Art and Technology Grant awarded by Prix Ars Electronica and sponsored by voestalpine. Relized in Cooperation with Ars Electronica Furturelab: Horst Hörtner, Rudolf Hanl, Jürgen Nussbaummüller. Special thanks to Andreas Käferböck and Gerhard Riegler.
Supported by Festo and Hellerman Tyton.