“Please Empty Your Pockets”
Whipple Mini-Mover’s LP Series small conveyor is now part of in an international gallery display at the Manchester Art Gallery in Manchester, UK.
In this project, called “Please Empty Your Pockets,” the artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, combined our LP Series conveyor platform with computer hardware and programming developed by Antimodular Research in Montreal, Canada. Mr. Lozano-Hemmer has over 30 musuem exhibitions currently running throughout the world, including Europe, Canada, South America and the Pacific Rim.
“Please Empty your Pockets” is an installation that consists of an LP Series 
conveyor with a computerized scanner that records and accumulates everything that passes under it. Museum visitors may place any small item on the conveyor belt, for example keys, ID cards, wallets, worry beads, notepads, phones, coins, dolls, credit cards, etc. Once they pass under the scanner, the objects reappear on the other side of the LP Series conveyor beside projected objects from the memory of the installation.
As a real item is removed from the LP Series conveyor, it leaves behind a projected image of itself, which is then used to accompany future objects. The piece remembers up to 600,000 objects which are displayed beside new ones that visitors progressively add to the installation.