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There are some crazy ideas here. I really like the fiber optic pass through for object detection. I still think RFID would be a better solution since you have to uniquely identify each element and teach your program to know that object. Although the gradient tags give you orientation.

Madgets are transparent tangible controls for multi-touch tables. Our system combines electromagnetic actuation with fiber optical tracking.

For more information: Visit hci.rwth-aachen.de/madgets

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David Kelley Demos the Touch Tag

by Ryan Lane on April 1, 2010

See David Kelley of Wirestone demonstrate his prototype for building immersive retail experiences. As a customer approaches a product, the price tag, display and even the placement wall can all come alive with this integrated application. This was built using the Arduino Ping prototype mentioned in my previous post WPF Sonar application using Arduino and PING))) sensor
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I’ve been playing around with the Arduino more and more lately and really wanted to find a way to make it work with my other world of C# and WPF.   The idea was to make an application that changes the screen based on how far away the user is.  The only way that I could easily think about doing it was to use an Arduino as a serial device to help communicate with the sonar sensor. 

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Goldfish Music Box for iPhone

by Ryan Lane on January 2, 2010

This application converts color into music. It can turn your goldfish or any moving objects into an interactive music box.

iPhone App: Goldfish Music Box from Francis Lam on Vimeo.

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GelSight

December 28, 2009
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Dynamic Ground

December 22, 2009

Dynamic Ground from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

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Exploring Electronics at the MIT Media Lab

November 8, 2009

I really like the idea of the wall painted as a circuit. I’d also like to see more done with the Arduino LilyPad with sensors on clothing. Could be an interesting way to build monitoring clothes for scientific research cheaply.

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The Sony and Atracsys surface like interface

November 6, 2009

Here’s a video about the Sony & Atracsys surface like table that was seen at the Vision 2009 conference From what I’ve seen most of the functionality of the is very similar to the Microsoft Surface table only bigger.

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