Mongoose Studio's Twelve iPod Cluster Display

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You ever see those big “video wall” displays? The ones where they put a dozen or so screens in a big block and shoot one part of an image to each, using monitors like pixels in a huge display? Well, the folks out at Mongoose Studio put together one of their own, except they used iPods. iPod Touches, to be specific.

A combination of twelve iPod Touches to form the display, and a thirteenth iPod touch to serve as the controller, gives you the display we’ve pictured above. Procedurally, it involves splitting video, and attempting to synchronize the whole into a coherent package. It takes a lot of prep work, and the effect is certainly exciting conceptually if not necessarily exciting functionally.

Because let’s face it, folks, six iPod Touches in a line is only about 21 inches across, and maybe just a bit more on the diagonal. And thirteen iPod Touches cost vastly, VASTLY more than a twenty two inch monitor, but there’s no twenty two inch monitor that beats this concept for sheer cool. Plus, using an iPod Touch like this definitely gains points for the device’s versatility, which was never really in question.