Story Kiosk
1 kiosk · wooden pieces, no touchscreen
You set a book down and pick a narrator. Gemini reads a passage you already know — then you swap a piece, and hear the same lines read a completely different way.
Google × Handstand
Three rooms where
Gemini listens.
One floor, one evening. Each installation puts the Gemini Live audio models in front of a real person doing a real thing — ordering dinner, taking a swing, telling a story out loud.
24 September 2026 — days out
Right now
checking…
- Hand Roll Bar
- Golf Coach
- Story Kiosk
- Platform API
The floor
Hand Roll Bar
3 kiosks · 2 iPads each
You speak no Japanese. The chef speaks nothing else. You talk anyway — no headphones, no buttons — and the screens between you quietly assemble the order you agreed on.
Golf Coach
2 bays · 2 cameras each
Two synchronized cameras measure the swing; Gemini interprets it and coaches you aloud, driving the replay screen to prove what it is saying. Interrupt it and ask.
The lab
The working sketches the demos were built out of — including the Phone Booth, which came off the floor on 2026-09-03 and lives on here — plus the station probes. Each one opens a live Gemini session on our own API key, so the lab asks for a password. Ask Sam or Glenn.
- Phone Booth — The Daily Legend An editor-in-chief interviews you about your hero moment, then two front-page proofs roll off the press.
- The Pressroom Every poster the art department has ever generated, with the exact prompt and story file behind it.
- Hanashi Live two-way speech translation with streaming captions — the seed the Hand Roll Bar grew from.
- Live AI Sketch Describe a scene out loud; a live image model redraws each correction as you speak.
- GuezzBall JezzBall with a secret picture underneath. Wall it off, or just say what you think it is.
- Mic Check Station hardware probe: does this browser really hand us two independent mic channels?
Operations
The floor's own instruments. Separate service, separate password.
- Operator console The fleet grid: 8 iPads across sushi and story, heartbeats, Reset.
- Golf board Two bays: state, arc, last swing, proxy thumbnail.
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Platform health
Raw
/healthzfrom the platform service. - Styleguide Every skin, every contrast ratio, every component recipe.
- Prototype admin Session controls for the lab apps.