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March 1st, 2006

Alternative interfaces

Most people will have a mouse and a keyboard for a long time to come but there are many other ways to interact with our technology then just clicking from one page to another. Here is some stuff I’ve come across lately…

Flickr image search by drawing:
http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/

Video camera tracking shadows, there are other great things on the site:
http://setpixel.com/content/?ID=shadowstory

Tile interface:
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/movies/tile2.mpg

Interesting sound interface from the designer of electroplagton:
http://www.youtube.com/w/Toshio-Iwai-%28TENORI-ON%29-%40-Artfutura05?v=WQq2aXvIsz4

Blockjam (sound blocks):
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/IL/projects/blockjam/downloads/BlockJam_0.mov

Search for tune with rhythm:
http://www.songtapper.com/

Interactive brush:
http://www.i4u.com/article4344.html

Multi-touch screen:
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

Video of guy playing electroplagton on nintendo DS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp4VPmD-2KI

If you have a webcam set up take a look at this:
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/08/flash_8_webcam.html

Tyler

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  • Loopion says:

    Incredible !

  • Mordread says:

    Le “Multi-touch screen” est incroyable…
    Je ne sais pas si je vais prendre ça ou l’interface virtuelle de “Minority Report” ;-)

  • Chris says:

    If you are into this stuff, you might be interested in some of the posts on my site:
    http://www.pixelsumo.com

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