Morgan Camilleri
Concert Box
An iPhone concert kit: the flash becomes a torch, the screen reacts to sound when you shake the phone.
This product is no longer online: the app has been removed from the App Store.
Data · iPhone
The project
In 2010, a concert was still lived with your screen held high. Concert Box turned the iPhone into a venue accessory: a virtual lighter whose flame tilts as you tip the device, a torch driven by the iPhone 4's real flash, an animated "LED" display to find each other in the crowd, and ambient sounds triggered by shaking the phone.
All of it rested on the phone's own components, repurposed one by one: the accelerometer for tilt and shake, the flash for light. It is the project that taught me the most about what a device's hardware can be made to say.
What the app did
- A virtual lighter whose flame tilts with the phone's orientation
- A torch using the iPhone 4's real flash
- An animated "LED" display to find your way in the crowd
- Full-screen images to express how you feel
- Ambient sounds triggered by shaking the device
Top 5 free Entertainment app, Top 25 free app overall. The concert kit for iPhone: the flash becomes a torch, the screen reacts to sound when you shake the phone.
App Store listing, at the time
What this project says
The ability to repurpose a phone's components into a simple, immediately understandable experience.