The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share ... all » complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.
that... is the coolest thing i have ever seen...
ReplyDeleteIt would be a riot to play around with that device.
ReplyDeleteTangible / grasbable user interfaces are, as such, not a very new idea. If fact IMO it is quite popular and sexy research topic at the moment. If you are keen to know more the following (a bit outdated?) page could help you out:
ReplyDeleteTangibles
Tangible bits, one of the early TUI's.
MIT Tangible media group
You might also check Rekimoto's work:
Datatile
SmartSkin
Augmented surfaces