Published: June 28, 2008 in future » interaction by Thomas Baekdal
This interaction concept by Chris Woebken explores how we can interact by flipping, wrenching or bending the screen - as opposed to using multi-touch or keypads.
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This technology is made possible by the use of OLED, the next generation screens.
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Alfie, The first video is merely an early prototype. The concept is intended to work as showcased in the second video.
But, I agree about the camera, especially considering this was mad long before Microsoft Surface (which features a similar concept)
I don't want to be mean here, but second video looks like fake to me. Doesn't (s)he just holding some paper and visuals are projected by some sort of projecting device? (S)he is synchronised well though...
I know OLEDs are thin and all that, but that doesn't look like a screen to me. What do you think?
@ Ali Servet Dönmez - of course it's a "fake" - (especially in 2005 it had to...). We can see that person holds some kind of flexible piece of material (maybe kind of plexi or sth), and picture goes from the projector placed on bottom. Really good coordination, indeed! :)
But there's nothing strange about it - the video is about presenting only the idea, the concept. And these concepts are... interesting, all I can say. But when seriously thinking about it I can't find any potentially good implementation. Who would like to shake or bend the screen or laptop all the day instead of - for example - much more comfortable for me - multi-touching it? :P
For me the "one and only" idea really worth attention is the project which you can see searching for "Multitouch Reel" on the net (YouTube for example). That is really great and useful thing - which I'd like to have!
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Maybe I'm not very visionary, but I don't see much practical use. It seems more of a hindrance to me. It's got to be pretty hard to concentrate on a screen that you have to move around all the time.
I've seen how they do the second vid several times, It's actually pretty cool, the use a projector and a motion sensor (similar to the one the Wii has) the computer gets a 3d image of the "screen" and constantly projects only on it. it can identify when something goes in front of the "screen" and any motion or flexing of the screen.
One really cool use of this i saw was a large map projected on a table, with a small square of material that when placed over a part of the map acted as a zoom lens.
Currently thats the closest I've personally seen to the OLEDs but it's a pretty good approximation.
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Jun 30
2008
Alfie Goodrich
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The bottom one would suit me more than the one in the first video. The whol concept works much better with a flexible screen that with the more traditional unit in the first video. Very cool. I love the photo download from the camera and then the cropping....