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MACE interactive installation

August 31st, 2009 fabricio

Interactive installation designed and developed by the Interface Design team of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Presented at the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice, this was a previous post we lost and are recalling it :)

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Multi-touch Tablet for Remote Collaboration

August 31st, 2009 fabricio

Check this out.

Touchco IFSR Multi-Touch Sensor Technology

August 31st, 2009 fabricio


Touchco is a newly founded company chartered to commercialize IFSR (Interpolating Force-Sensitive Resistance) technology recently developed at New York University’s Media Research Lab.

Visit Touchco

HP TouchSmart Interactive Billboard

July 31st, 2009 fabricio

Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons on a Visual Display

July 31st, 2009 fabricio

This is reeeeealy cool! Specially for those who missed the mechanical feedback on multitouch/interactive displays.

Do visit Chris Harrison and Scott Hudson site for more info.

The Future of Font Searching

July 30th, 2009 fabricio

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The future of font searching may be based on an interactive application such as the one in the video above. It can easily help you find a typeface for a project in a collection of several thousand fonts. It also lets you browse, preview, compare and print the fonts you are interested in.

The Fontplore application was developed by Christian Hertlein and Marcus Paeschke in summer 2009 under the supervision of Till Nagel and professor Boris Müller.

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MultiTouch Barcelona- Interview

July 27th, 2009 fabricio
Multitouch Barcelona

Multitouch Barcelona

Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.

“In the last years technology has advanced in giant steps”…this is not a new thing but today it seems to be a reality for everybody. Open source is now an open door that will come into all houses, exponentially speeding up creativity and development possibilities.

Next, a short introduction that will analyse the key moments in the last ten years of technology and creative development in the field of interaction and new media, and end with the performance and interview of one of the most interesting artistic collectives in the last few years: Multitouch Barcelona…

Read full text and Interview by Marvin Milanese

Adobe: Mobile Flash to Get Accelerometer, Multi-touch Support Early Next Year

July 24th, 2009 fabricio

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch said at a company event for analysts today that a full featured version of Flash for mobile phones will be available in beta by the end of this year and by early next year the technology will be making use of multi-touch and accelerometer features on smart phones.

Ted Patrick, Adobe’s Senior Manager of Developer Communities, put it like this: “I think we will see Flash on different devices support the soul of the device in capabilities and APIs” – including GPS. That’s an exciting trajectory and more than we’ve heard before. Full Flash on phones by the end of this year is more or less on schedule, but the integration of these physical features certainly revs up the imagination.

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Volkswagen Scirocco Multitouch table

July 24th, 2009 fabricio


Fun!  (Not Grid on Xbox360 type of fun. Just fun) ;)

RFID Video Poker Table

July 14th, 2009 fabricio

Ok, $20,000.00!  Not for the average gambler, a set of real decks are closer to my price range.  I just loved the interface, the table, the gameplay (despite the fact I can’t play poker) but then again, geeks right.  I can also think of  a few magic tricks like making cards vanish or change values and suits before your own eyes…wow!

Visit www.videopokertable.net.