Multi-touch is great when you want to enable complex features on a fairly intuitive and easy to read interface. But when deployed in a Windows or OSX environment common traditional elements such as screen orientation and workspace compatibility get in the way of development and are often more hassle than they are worth. The greatest thing about Multi-touch is collaboration and Pictionaire, a project by Andy Wilson and Björn Hartmann, really takes advantage of this and is an awesome tool for designers.
Although impractical at the moment due to costs and maintenance and complexity of the system we could well see this make its way on to the consumer based market in the future. This technology will allow designers to work both digitally and physically at the same time bridging an important gap in the design process and in turn reducing developing time through increasing productivity and allowing better access to information and through the digital interface.
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Just because you can doesn’t always mean you should. Well this defiantly isn’t that case here! This awesome guitar hero interactive instillation built by Ric Turner allows you to tune in the FM and kick back and play some guitar hero!
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I went to London a few days back and tracked down a few interactive shop fronts, only one is worth showing though. The shop front to Phones4U on Oxford Street features an interactive phone, it wasn’t bad if anything limited in functionality but fun and easy to use and great use of advertising and multi-touch.
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This demos how to make a Multi-Touch pad with no rear projection, perfect for trying it out if your looking into building a table but want to try it out first. Based on my experience it may be worth spending just a little money on getting a IR flood light and place it inside your box facing up at the glass. The software I tend to use for this is ReactiVision which is capable of inputting data to Flash via OSC.
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The f5×5x5 Framework Sculpture is a brilliant interactive instillation ,designed by LAb[au], the installation uses and array of sensors, stepper motors and LED lights. This complex sculpture is themed after architectural problems (like congestion and flows) with spatial sensing technologies. It’s an interesting piece with a unique style.
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I want this! I want this now! This awesome demo shows how inputs from a controller that Microsoft is researching into can accurately read muscular inputs. They demo this technology by playing Guitar Hero!
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Why? Well probably just because they can! This tech demo of a Multi-Touch Sphere is an interesting concept which I believe if applied correctly could have some useful and interesting applications, such as a globe and games. With the rise of Multi-Touch technology it will be interesting to see if this sort of technology will make it into day to day life.
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Anyone who keeps up with blogs here would have probably seen one or more of these. There fantastic innovative solutions to make the tiny things in the world just a little more fun, like recycling. I personally love building interactive installations and find this project to be inspiring.
Bottle Bank Arcade Machine
Piano Stairs
World Deepest Bin
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