‘pressure field displays’

Your Future 3D CAD Interface May be Soft, Cozy Memory Foam

24 Feb, 2009 by in TECH

foam-touch-interfaceNo more slamming your face against the hard surface of your monitor in hopes of gaining the pity of your coworkers. The soft foam that sends you off to dreams of work the next day is potentially a future interface to create 3D models on.

DIS.PLAY allows you to manipulate projects objects via touch-sensitive force sensors embedded between two pieces of foam.Why foam? Because it’s the dawning of a new age where we won’t need those hard, static 2-dimensional displays of course. ‘iFoam’ 2, anyone?

check out the pics and video after the jump and the 3D modeling part at about 1:15…
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Flying Ninjas, No. 3D Future CAD Interface, Yes.

02 Oct, 2008 by in TECH

flying ninjas love 3d tactile force feedbackCome in out of the large open spaces, where you risk inevitable attacks from throngs of flying ninjas, and have a look at the near possibility of how we will be interfacing with virtual objects in the future.

3D space is a pretty big area to be manipulating like a clump of old clay, but you whack that space down to a defined volume within the tightly wound wavelengths of a friendly frequency and suddenly, you’re moving junk around in 3D space with your hand. Check this out.

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