What is the name of that pin thing?

Pin Board?

I don’t think it has an actual name, every time I’ve heard it referenced it’s just been “pin art.”

PIN ART
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_Art

http://www.officeplayground.com/pinart.html

OK, “Pin Art”, although I like “pinscreen” better.

Also, Office Playground looks like a cool site.

Thanks

From @teh_kvlt_liberal‘s link, the generic name seems to be “pinscreen,” and Pin Art is a specific brand or model.

Though there have been many styles and brands of this amusement, the first one I’ve seen came out in late 80’s under the name “Pin-pressions.”

I wonder if anyone ever got hurt using one of these. They look like an accident waiting to happen.

The pinscreen was invented by Alexander Alexeieff as a way of producing animations. Look at this one Le Nez he made in 1963. Amazing stuff.

@Harp That is insane.

This one, Mindscape, is even more spectacular. Pinscreen animation is considered the painstaking kind of animation. The screen used in “Mindscape” had about a million pins.

If you turn it upside down, it’s called a bed of nails.

@Harp Oh, you do know how to make a man happy.

That’s fantastic. Wow.