These are some images of my demo booth at the Innovation Playground of the Inspiration Week. What you see is a mini pc that serves as a MediaCenter (it runs Vista Home Premium). That’s the small i-pro device next to the keyboard on the left. Right next to the MediaCenter pc is a prototype Home Server, also from i-pro. Then there is an XBox 360 with wireless controller. Other things in the picture are an UMPC that serves as interface for the MediaCenter, a VGA switch and a router and a bunch of cables. So the setup is as follows: the XBox 360 is an extender of the MediaCenter, so I can browse the cool interface with the wireless controller. The MediaCenter then collects data on the Home Server and displays it in the interface so it is ready to be explored. The XBox360 is initiated as a remote user on the Home Server, so it can gain access to all assigned folders that belong to its user profile. It’s a pretty fun demo to give, and I gave it about 15 times that day. I like to play around with things like this, because it’s just so cool to have an integrated solution. The router is necessary to hand out IP addresses to all devices in the network, and the VGA switch comes in very handy to switch from one device to another as you set it up. I’ll do a decent recorded demo of this soon to put it online, but most of the time when I’m at an event, I lack the time to record my own stuff :)

The two little award cards were given to me by a fellow booth keeper who attended my demo. I gave mine to the Delfly team (of whom I posted a short interview/demo earlier). I was pretty pleased with these cards, even though I didn’t win the prize of best demo or best application (you had to collect as many of these cards as possible). Thanks, Steven :) Very much appreciated!

You can see more impressions of the Innovation Playground at The Hague in my Flickr feed.