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‘touch capable devices’

The Bend Desk Will Morph Your Workspace Into Awesomeness

09 Dec, 2010 by Josh Mings in TECH
3D Human CAD Models

Imagine sliding your hand… across a bed of scorpions. Then stop doing that, relax your neck tendons and imagine sliding your hand across the smooth transition of a touch interface that flows from vertical to horizontal. Ahhhhhhh. It’s like buttery rays of light coating your fingertips. Really, take a look.

The Media Computing Group, researching graphical user interfaces (GUI’s) out of Aachen, Germany, is LITERALLY stretching the possibilities across your workspace with the Bend Desk. It’s a concept, but with the work they’ve already done on the UI, you can bet it’s going to draw some interest for 3D modeling and graphic creators. I’m sold. How bad do you want one?

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Vats Upon Vats of 3D, Hologram, and Multi-Touch Goodness. Eat Up.

26 Oct, 2009 by Josh Mings in TECH

So, what happens when I go offline for a couple days to clean the charred remains of spiders out of my displays? A ton of news about displays… 3D displays, multi-touch displays, holographic displays, the future of displays, display gumbo…

It’s absolutely uncalled for and also pleasant to see that there’s much development going on in the world of 3D. Here’s a bit of a mish-mash-recap of what’s being talked about and a splash about how it all relates to product development.

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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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