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‘3d touch’

i3Space Will Have You Touching 3D, Shooting Design Out Your Fingers.

13 Sep, 2010 by Josh Mings in TECH
3D Human CAD Models

Nothing but good can come out of a project that includes a bunch of researchers in a small room and finger probes. Especially when they start toying with the visible aether and our ability to touch it.

That’s exactly what a group from the Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has done. They’ve created a new way to interact with 3D data. They’re calling it the i3Space and it’s not your typical 2 year-old touch tech. They actually give you the ability to touch a 3-dimensional holographic image.

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Best Application of Touchscreen TableTop Tech Yet. Still A Table.

20 Aug, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

Gather round the coffee table family. You’re about to see one of the most gut-grabbin’, practical applications of touchscreen tech yet.

Your coffee table serves a lot of purposes, but Media Interaction Lab has one more to make your odd-looking neighbors peer in amazement, through the back window..

The premise is simple. Make the coffee table a universal remote control for the entire house. And it’s exactly what they’ve done, with CRISTAL.
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