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Mit Transform Project Gives Shape to Human-Object Interplay
MIT's Tangible Media Group demonstrates their Transform project table, consisting of three shape displays, moving over 1,000 pins up and down in real time.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Tangible Media Group gave the Lexus Design Amazing exhibition a glimpse of shape-shifting technology's future earlier this month, showing off a tabletop that becomes a dynamic display enabled by the interplay of humans with objects.
The table, consisting of three displays, moved more than 1,000 pins up and down in real time, and the kinetic energy of the viewers, captured by a sensor, drove wave motion represented by the dynamic pins. The moving table is part of the Transform project, which is part of the team's efforts to explore interface design.
Daniel Leithinger, one of the creators, predicts computers will not look like computers in the future. "They're going to be embedded in everything around us," he says.
The group suggests a vision of Radical Atoms as a material that can be part of the future of human-material interaction, where all digital information has a physical manifestation so people can interact directly with it. "We no longer think of designing the interface, but rather of the interface itself as material," notes a description of the project.
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