If you’re an old hat at using public transit, or someone trying frantically to go site-seeing, in the bustling, historic cities of Europe, you’ll know how important bus information can be.
Bus stops, as we know them, are about to get a makeover. They’re not just for use as a goal for small dogs anymore. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT have developed a networked, environmentally adaptive communications system to bring mass transit into the 21st century.
It’s the Eyestop from MIT Senseable Lab. Oh, and this isn’t just a concept. The new system will start being installed in Florence, Italy in 2010. We caught up with Giovanni de Niederhausern of the MIT Eyestop development team to ask him some questions about the design and get some more images of the idea. Here’s what he had to say.
