What you can do with some lights and lots of time...
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Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Chaos Computer Club has made a special present to itself and the city of Berlin. Since Sept 12, 2001, the famous "Haus des Lehrers" (house of the teacher) has been enhanced to become world's biggest interactive computer display.
The upper eight floors of the house have been transformed in to a huge display by arranging 144 lamps behind each of the windows. A computer controls each of the lamps independently to produce a monochrome matrix of 18 times 8 pixels.
During the night, a constantly growing number of animations can be seen. But there is an interactive component as well: you can play the old arcade classic pong on the house using your mobile phone and you can place your own loveletters on the screen as well.
Some of the web sites sold duty-free cigarettes and many offered special promotions.
"The emergence of Internet cigarette vendors presents many challenges for tobacco control advocates," Ribisl said in the study in the journal Tobacco Control.
"State and federal legislation and enforcement will probably be needed to ensure that appropriate excise taxes are paid on cigarettes, that gray market cigarettes are not sold online, and that youth access to tobacco products is restricted," he added.
In a commentary on the research, Canadian scientists said international tobacco control agreements and national and state regulation may be needed to meet the threat the Internet posed for tobacco control.
"If deliberate and concerted action is not taken, tobacco commerce on the Internet could prove to be a significant threat to comprehensive tobacco control," said Joanna Cohen of the University of Toronto.