We have added real-time capture of a live camera feed to our existing Spin Browser VE technology. Users can now fluidly review days into the past at 30fps, and years in timelapse... right back up to their present moment. This smooth perusal is 100% simultaneous with continuous streaming capture. More information may be found here.

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Having used rewind and fast-forward on their DVD/VHS player, and/or having dragged a slider in a Quicktime window, they expect the experience to be very similar. However, because such conventional technologies typically introduce one or more of:

• Small temporal delays between user interface movement and image update (even 100ms is pretty awful)
• Traversal speed limitations
• Low dynamic resolution of frame position
  
  …they are dramatically less engaging than the Spin Browser VE.

Because of this situation, we now offer a fully functional, self-contained, demo unit. The system takes less than 5 minutes to set up, is lots of fun, and is generating - among designers and clients alike - all kinds of fun installations, applications, and collaborations. Please see www.technofrolics.com/touringspin for more detail and to book a free visit!

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The Spin Browser™ VE now offers the same ultra-smooth interactive control of HD content, at any perusal speed from stop frame to over 1,000,000 times normal speed, as it has historically offered with NTSC Standard Def.

We've gotten quite spoiled by the stunning image quality of HD, and once you try it, you will too! (Note that our free demo unit offered above includes HD sample content.)

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We have significantly reduced our prices for our NTSC Standard Def systems, with HD systems costing about what Standard Def systems cost originally.

While in most situations we continue to strongly recommend TechnoFrolics provide tested, content-archived, turnkey systems, in those situations where third parties wish to perform such integration and archiving services themselves, we now offer component Spin Browser system elements.

Please contact us to email you a price and option sheet covering the elements discussed above.

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Between footage we have filmed or acquired ourselves, and that available through our partnerships with 3rd parties, we now have significant Spin Browser VE stock content we can offer very cost effectively.

Typically, our selections are of most help in situations where a client's exhibit goal is described as "Cool and Educational", or "Timelapse Footage", or "Nature", etc., as opposed to addressing a very obscure specific topic (e.g., the mating rituals of snails in the Mekong Delta").

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This summer we introduced our Spin Browser VE to botanic garden and arboreta professionals at the 2005 AABGA conference in Chicago where it was very well received.

We're excited to be exploring applications of our technology in this new field, which we see as a natural extension to its use in contexts such as museums and aquariums.

A new (in-process) area of our web site, focused on the Spin Browser VE in botanic gardens, can be seen at: www.technofrolics.com/SpinBrowser/botanic.

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(Note that there are many wonderful client installations we did not list. Our choice of exhibits here was determined simply on the basis of which most readily highlights a new feature or offering.)

• Tufts University Admissions Department, Medford, MA:
  • HD content.
  • Original source primarily composed of hi-res still images.
  • More "corporate" flavor than most of TechnoFrolics' museum work.
  • Content largely produced by TechnoFrolics.

  Please see our press release at www.technofrolics.com/press/pr-tiaacref.html for more detail.
  
  
  

• Boston Children's Museum - Touring:
  • Handcycle-driven point-of-view tour of a Nevada state park, implemented using TechnoFrolics' Spin Browser technology.

  Please see our press release at www.technofrolics.com/press/pr-handcycle.html for more detail.
  
  
  

• New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY:
  • Custom design with 2x5 array of buttons, where visitors can compare two species of animal, each evidencing their own type of aggregate "flocking" behavior.

  Please see item 2 in our press release at www.technofrolics.com/press/pr-nyhs.html for more detail.
  
  
  

• Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA:
  • Time lapse tidal cycle content filmed natively in HD.
    
    
    
• Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI), Tampa, FL:
  • Composed entirely of stock content from TechnoFrolics' sources.
    
    
    
• EcoTarium, Worcester, MA
• Real-time streaming capture 24 hours into the past at full 30fps.

  Please see our press release at www.technofrolics.com/press/pr-ecotarium.html for more detail.

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DMX control (the communications standard for moving lights) is now available for new system purchases.

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An economy version of the Dancing Banners technology has been designed for the more budget conscious. The Twirling Banners technology differs from the Dancing Banners technology in that they:

• Cost only approximately 25% the price of Dancing Banners units.
• Weigh only approximately 25% the weight of the Dancing Banners units.
• May be made as small as desired (it is recommended that, where possible site-wise, the Dancing Banners units be no less than 2ft wide x 14ft tall).
  

This is made possible because the Twirling Banners displays:

• Use lower strength motors that allow graceful changes in banner motion, but are unsuited to performing high-speed dynamic dances set to music.
• Are mechanized at one end only.
• Have a fixed, client-adjustable twist in each banner (rather than having the twist computer controlled, through which shimmers etc. are affected).
• Typically omit custom choreography, being provided instead with predefined movement sequences.

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For the New York Hall of Science, TechnoFrolics contributed an Interactive Electric Power Grid which simulates the conditions that caused the massive August 2003 power outage.

Please see item 1 in our press release at
www.technofrolics.com/press/pr-nyhs.html for more detail.

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In several recent instances, TechnoFrolics' trademark, "Spin Browser", has been applied inappropriately to refer generically to exhibits allowing rotary control of video. In response, we have been mailing out a friendly, clarifying letter. That letter can be seen here.

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