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2.5. Art

We're just such big fans of these services that we couldn't help mentioning them. There are some great examples out there of SMS services that don't fit cleanly into any utilitarian category, but are valuable in their own way. We'll restrain ourselves to a couple examples:

• Troika's SMS Guerilla Art Projector projects SMS messages from a distance onto any surface (http://www.troika.uk.com/sms-guerrilla-projector.htm)

• Three Maryland Institute of the Arts students created a museum piece in which museum-goers send their mood into the piece via SMS and the piece adapts throughout the evening (read about it in The Washington Post at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031602193.html)