Board Games Powered by OLED Screens Could Revive the Genre

Board games are cool, but technology allows for so much more – for example, pieces made entirely out of OLEDs. It’s no joke, as scientists at Queen’s Human Media Lab have demonstrated – Professor Roel Vertegaal and Mike Rooke, an HML graduate, have made it possible to use hexagon-shaped gaming pieces that can interact with each other.

The user simply slides the pieces next to each other which results in a calculation of a game move, and the result is displayed directly on the pieces. All you need is an overhead camera and a projector, and you can even display event that span across multiple pieces, such as soldiers aligning in a line.

The team behind the new tiles predicts improvements in the technology such as using e-ink, e-paper, as well as OLEDs. This is going great, and we can’t wait to see what else they’ll come up with, as this will certainly breathe some fresh air into the life of board games.

[ Via Treehugger ]

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