By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Intel wanted to knock the socks of CES attendees this year with its booth and found a great way to succeed.

They created Infoscape, a massive 7 1/2 foot square double HD (4k) partial cube with custom software to pull XML feeds in real-time and display them as a series of hundreds to thousands of rotating cubes.

They didn’t stop there, however. They swung for the fences by adding interactivity with the two walls by integrating touch. Anyone could come up to the wall and touch the cubes to trigger the selection of that cube’s content.

The best way to describe it would be that it was like clicking a photo online and having it popup in a lightbox with a transparent background, but with many open at once.

It turns out that this was only a display element for the booth and not a real product. The intention was highlight the i7 processor. This chip has over 600 million transistors on it and is the size of a dime. One single chip powered both screens.

3D wishes it had the juice that this wall did. If this wall were the future of television I’d feel a whole lot better about what Samsung, Panasonic and Sony were shilling.

This thing just goes to show that sometimes the best products are accidents. Look for Intel to find other uses for Infoscape this year.

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