Stephen Hobley is at it again.  His laser harp was cool enough to win second place in our project contest a few months back, and since then he’s managed to make it even cooler.  Using a Wiimote to accurately track the positions at which the beams are interrupted, he added some very clean and precise pitch control to the already impressive instrument.  Watch the video.  After about a minute of demonstration, he gives a quick explanation of how the modification works, so be sure to watch the whole video.

He started a thread about this in our forums, so head on over there to give him props, ask questions, etc:
Laser Harp Mk III

If you haven’t read the original thread from when he first completed the project, check it out here:
Frameless Laser Harp

If you want more info on how it was made, or if you want to build your own, follow this link to Stephens’s site:
The Laboratory

From the JazzMutant website:

The Lemur is a top of the range control surface for audio and media applications, that breaks from the prior art on several grounds. Its major innovation consists in its brilliant modular graphic interface concept and its exclusive multitouch sensor technology. The continiously growing palette of configurable graphic objects enables you to design made-to-measure interfaces by using the free available JazzEditor. This endows the Lemur with the unique and protocol independant capacity to adapt its behavior according to the application you are controlling: sequencers, modular synthesizers, virtual instruments, VJ software, 3D animation tools and light control.

Personally I try to touch the mirrors in my house as little as possible. But the text floating in the mirror is so cool on this I want one anyway.

via TechEBlog & Gizmodo

via TechEBlog

Here’s a first: a touchscreen display you don’t actually have to touch. Basically, users swipe their hand from a distance of up to 15cm away and the built-in sensors translate that movement into a command — like flipping pages, etc. Continue reading to watch a demo.

link

via TechEBlog

Here’s a first: a touchscreen display you don’t actually have to touch. Basically, users swipe their hand from a distance of up to 15cm away and the built-in sensors translate that movement into a command — like flipping pages, etc. Continue reading to watch a demo.

We have to file this under Human Computer Interaction (HCI) because we don’t have a catagory for Dog Computer Interaction (DCI).

link to company behind this cool demo

We have seen some of these kind of interactive displays at some of the shows we have been to. It’s facinating to wonder how this technology will integrate itself into our lives. There are some bars that have using similar technology so far for a cool lighting effect.