Such a system could be used as an interactive collaborative wall in a meeting room, or even a large information kiosk.

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But if all the lenses on all the plates were linked in a collaborative network (which, given the layout of a brittlestar's nervous system, is possible), information from many directions could be added together to give an image of everything above the animal.

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In Austria, Ars Electronica, a collaborative behind a digital arts festival, museum and lab, helped Siemens develop a car navigation system that shows the driver a video of the street rather than a map.

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