Microsoft Surface May 30, 2007
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Microsoft has come up with a very interesting new approach to the multi-touch surfaces. They now integrate physical objects with digital information. Very cool!
Check out another video here: http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=933742930
Customizable OLED keyboard May 30, 2007
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The Optimus Maximus Keyboard uses OLED technology (thiner and cheaper then LED) in every key letting the user customize its content. The company also discusses the possibility of adding animation to every key.
Even with the high price of $1,500 a piece, the first set of 200 keyboards was sold-out in 12 hours during the first day of sales. Now, whoever wants to have one of those, besides paying $1,500 will have to wait till late 2007 or early 2008 to get one.
I don’t think this is super innovative but it’s worth a look.
Audio Cubes May 25, 2007
Posted by designando in innovative interfaces, music, physical interaction design.add a comment
This is a Tangible User Interface (TUI) consisting of cubes that contain Digital Signal Processors (DSP) with optical sensors and emitters (infraref and LEDs). These sensors and emitters receive and send audio signals which are generated or processed by the signal processor in the cube.
By positioning the cubes relative to each other and moving them around, a signal processing network can be created. Audio Cubes proposes a new way of interacting with sound and music.
This project was done with Max/MSP: http://www.cycling74.com/story/2007/4/30/132117/165
More information at http://www.percussa.com/
