Comments on: Musical Stairs

By: andrea

andrea — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:09:54 +0000

Musical Stair touches the chords of sensibility, it influences positively the people who play it, Its joyful notes create social synergies putting everyone in a happy frame of mind. see musicalstairs.com

By: andrea

andrea — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:24:56 +0000

I know the inventor of musical stairs and the original walking piano. His name is Remo Saraceni and is an absolute genius.
He designed these magical items more than twenty years ago and Tom Hanks was the first to dance on walking piano in the movie Big.
If you want to see with your eyes all the possible applications of the walking piano played with the feet take a look at Remo Saraceni’s channel on youtube.

By: Tamar

Tamar — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:00:12 +0000

Few thoughts:
1. as Iris said and Michal gave another exmple this a great application of Task Unification that when used wisely can create a great impact and one of the most desired marketing objectives nowadays: Word of Mouth.
2. I think there is a nice Attribute Dependency that can be identified in the implementaion - the higher people go up the stairs and the more difficult it gets - the scale of the notes are getting higher and giving the person a lighter feeling that contradicts the body feeling and enhance the activity
3. Last thing is the important question of Fusion, would be intersting to understand how VW can make a better fusion between this great activity and their message or brand.

By: Fabian Szulanski

Fabian Szulanski — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:10:32 +0000

Here go some:
1. With all that people going up and down, how about accumulating all that energy and convert it into electric energy?
2. Why not measure and show in a dynamic display how many calories are burned at any given moment (and acxcumulated) so that the city shows it’s more socially responsible?
3. During the evenings, with low frequency between metro cars, make a competence with prizes on how fast people can go up and down 20 times the stairs (sponsored by Stockholm Cardio Institute) =)
Saludos!
Fabian

By: Michal Naishtein

Michal Naishtein — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:31:45 +0000

Here is another great example of using the staircase for a different purpose (or in SIT”s language : assigning a new task to an existing resource)
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/06/11/a-brilliant-storage-idea-staircase-drawers/