Sony Xperia launch

To demonstrate the 960 frames per second filming capability of a new smart phone, we created a number of scenarios involving some interesting rigs and some super-talented dancers. A group of around 30 journalists were invited to film the action, which was set up on the Tróia peninsula in sunny Portugal.

There were 14 powder cannons, 49 water-filled balloons burst in time to music, 7 frames with fake glass for a dancer to smash, 7 polystyrene walls for an acrobat to crash through, 3 controllable water jets, a pond to splash about in, a dance routine with smoke grenades on the beach, and a 7m high machine that could fire over 1000 multi-coloured ping pong balls in about 5 seconds.

The ping pong cannons used 7 leaf blowers to fire the balls. MIDI controlled actuators released waves of balls on demand. More details about how it was made can be found on the build page here.