Amazing Technology Invented By MIT – Tangible Media
At the MIT Media Lab, the Tangible Media Group believes the future of computing is tactile. Unveiled today, the inFORM is MIT’s new scrying pool for imaginin…
At the MIT Media Lab, the Tangible Media Group believes the future of computing is tactile. Unveiled today, the inFORM is MIT’s new scrying pool for imaginin…
Wonderful!
it would be awesome if there were like 500x as many smaller ones
still awesome tho
Meh, stop motion was developed several decades ago. This is nothing new. If
you watch the red ball in the beginning, it and the interacting environment
and even the outside environment is clearly jagged and stop framed
compiled.
Amazing Technology Invented By MIT – Tangible Media
Fast forward 20 years and imagine how nanotech manipulation will be done:
I can’t think of single practical application for such impractical device
Long distance sex, add tactile and haptic feedback and you have remote sex.
Sorry folks, just had to point that out. Now you can bang anyone, anytime,
safely.
Not necessarily ‘new technology’, but definitely an innovative idea. The
technology itself is based on the exposition almost all science museums
have (when you stick your hand in and lift sticks to make a figure). But to
use that existing technology to create something like this is genius. This
technology will probably only be useful commercially if it were made on a
grander scale… like whole rooms made of these. Wouldn’t that be
wonderful!
What would be some real world applications for this?
Foarte tare!
Where can i get one of these?
Federal Monies wasted like this in the name of tech innovation by so called
NIT media labs and then they blame the Economy and the Policy makers and
the Senate and all the people in and around but never introspect the Mortal
wastes such labs do.
Fancy! :O
Most stupid thing ever.
At the MIT Media Lab, the Tangible Media Group believes the future of
computing is tactile. Unveiled today, the inFORM is MIT’s new scrying pool
for imagining the interfaces of tomorrow. Almost like a table of living
clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape,
allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but
even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away. And that’s only the
beginning.
Created by Daniel Leithinger and Sean Follmer and overseen by Professor
Hiroshi Ishii, the technology behind the inFORM isn’t that hard to
understand. It’s basically a fancy Pinscreen, one of those executive desk
toys that allows you to create a rough 3-D model of an object by pressing
it into a bed of flattened pins. With inFORM, each of those “pins” is
connected to a motor controlled by a nearby laptop, which can not only move
the pins to render digital content physically, but can also register
real-life objects interacting with its surface thanks to the sensors of a
hacked Microsoft Kinect.
Fajna zabawka :D
Beautiful!
Building that Thing in Large could make a great exercise room with climable
obstacles which would let you climb on to the next “pin” indefinetly, or
create a huge labrynth in a very small room.
Amazing !
Increasing the number of actuators and reducing the size of the pixels will
work wonders!
Cool but useless… :D
Weird, scary. Mechanically similar to a piano? Expensive!
Ain’t that cool?