Pocket-sized laser projector
Microvision has released a pocket-sized laser projector called SHOW WX which always stays in focus, even when projecting on curved surfaces.
HML/MIT Workshop Programming Reality: From Transitive Materials to Organic User Interfaces
HML is organizing a workshop in collaboration with MIT, SONY and others for CHI 2009 on the concept of Organic UI and Transitive Materials.
Call for Participation:
http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Workshops/cfp121.pdf
Send your proposals in by Oct 23rd.
Programming Reality: From Transitive Materials to Organic User Interfaces :: April 4-5, 2009 :: Boston, Massachusetts, USA :: Call for Participation - Submission Deadline: October 23, 2008 :: Submissions and enquiries: programmingreality [at] media.mit.edu.
Changing the World Conference Nov 15th Toronto
Conference organized by HML researcher Justin Lee featuring brothers Hani and Karim Rashid, Eric Chivian, Vincent Lam, and others. Not to be missed.
Beijing Olympic Ceremony Features Giant Paperwindows, Actuated and Spherical Displays
The opening ceremony, directed by one of my favorite movie directors Zhang Yimou, featured a giant version of Paperwindows, in the form of a gigantic projected paper-like scroll, with LED covered rods. Above, an image of a giant human-generated copy of the Lumen display by Ivan Poupyrev also featured at the ceremony. And to make this a three out of three of Olympic display technology predictions, our spherical display featuring Google Earth was there as well.
Human Media Lab scoops Microsoft Sphere project
Recently, Microsoft showed an early demo of their multitouch spherical display prototype. However, the Human Media Lab was there first! In the June 2008 Communications of the ACM, on Organic User Interfaces (OUI), we showed our work on our prototype fully spherical computer concept, pictured below. It was featured in a June CTV newsreel that you can find on this blog.
Human Media Lab Sphere Prototype
Microsoft Spherical Surface
Stay tuned for more developments!
GPS Coke Can can obtained and X-rayed
by Ryan Block, posted Jul 23rd 2004 at 4:10PM
