A friend of mine gave me a brief tour of the ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) workspace at NYU yesterday. Wow… that place is candyland for geeks!

The whole space is buzzing with people working. It’s this big collective workspace where people are tapping away on laptops (primarily Macs), tinkering with interesting visualizations on big LCD screens, or stringing together electronics to make hardware mashups.

Some of the most popular inventions decorate the walls. My favorite (like many people who have toured before me) was the wooden mirror - depicted to the right. There’s a mini camera in the middle of all the wooden pixels and the pixels tilt to reflect more or less light as a visualization of the stream of information coming from the camera. It was really wild to see it working and watching it update in real-time.

When my time at USV is up, I would definitely consider attending ITP.