Amazing Technology Invented By MIT - Tangible Media

Hashem Al-Ghaili
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A compilation video of the MIT Media Lab Tangible Media Group's shape-changing displays, including the inFORM surface that moves in three dimensions. It shows people interacting with physical, programmable forms rather than flat screens.

HN people share it as a striking example of tangible, shape-changing interfaces, and list it among programmable-matter displays.

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@jacquesm2014 · in “A table of electric clay (2013) [video]”
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@tomkin2014 · in “InFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape”
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@morganwilde2014 · in “InFORM – a tangible display from the MIT Media Lab”
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@darkmighty2015 · in “How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News”
Recent developments allow software to make the configuration itself programmable which is going to be great I think. Pressure displays (2009): link . I can't believe they didn't attempt to build "pixels" of some kind though. More recently, a lot of ultrasound tech (2014): link . Tangible displays from MIT (2013): ▶ this video . I could see any of this being feasible for interacting in a non-mobile setting (car,desktop) with some adjustments.
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