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thenewgreen  ·  3841 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: MIT Invents A Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through And Touch

    Imagine if the little columns were smaller and sleeker
and on a much larger surface area. Yeah, this is extremely cool stuff. I often take my daughter to the Durham Life and Sciences Museum and her favorite thing there is something like this, except it isn't computer generated, it's a series of pins that you can press with your hand and you see the effect on the other end is an exact replica of your hand. I thought that is what would be happening here and was surprised when i saw him just motioning in thin air. -Super cool technology.




lookitzpancakes  ·  3841 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh yeah. Having the surface area be perhaps industrially sized, and having the motions be more nuanced and fine...man, this could be some really promising tech.