Troika Cloud

I want one of these in my living room. Looking to bring a little new-wave pizazz to their understandably high traffic Heathrow Terminal 5, British Airways commissioned UK art and design studio Troika to create "Cloud."

Suspended in the air between 4 escalators and 2 concourses, the 5-metre long digital sculpture is covered with 4638 individually controlled flip dots. A mirrored silver on one side and opaque black on the other, a computer controls the sculpture creating an almost organic, living skin. The versatility and subtlety of the movement is amazing, almost hypnotic. Besides the obvious allusion to flight, the shifting surface of "Cloud" was also inspired by the flipping schedule signage that was commonly used in airports and train stations in the Seventies and Eighties.