In the April issue of Metropolis, there is a great article (complete with pictures) about the Official NYC Information Center that just opened on the North end of Times Square. If you haven't seen it, maybe this excerpt will motivate you to go out and get a copy:
Resembling an Apple Store that has run out of iPods, the room is empty except for five billiard-size tables and the underlit supergrahic i's — for informiaton — that float above them...
... Visitors start by placing a cardboard puck in the middle of the electronic tables. Then they create their own itineraries by zooming in and out on the map, and send themselves the results via e-mail or text message. Black-clad reps stand by, ready to help. Guests can also carry their pucks to the back of the space and set them on one of two white pedestals, which cue either a printout, or a Google Earth fly-through projected on a video wall, of their soon-to-be-real journeys.
It's now on my places to go.
