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How About A Smart Doorknob? Researchers Have A Touch Interface
toptechnews.com 3 weeks, 1 day agoWhy should touch interfaces be limited to phones and computers? A team from Disney Research and Carnegie-Mellon University has developed a gestural-based touch interface that could be used for virtually any surface -- doorknobs, tables, even parts of your body. The range of applications for the technology, called Touche, is potentially huge. A doorknob could "know" if it should lock or not depending on how it is grasped. A stereo system that could mute itself if a single finger is brought to a person's lips
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Bricolo Mechanical Music System Hand-on
engadget.com 1 week, 6 days agoNick Yulman has been doing the whole mechanical music thing for sometime. In fact, the first time he came to our attention was at Maker Faire a couple of years back, when he had a cadre of small robotic instruments set up on a table in a quiet corner near the food stands. For ITP's Spring Show, Nick decided to share the love and brought along his Bricolo mechanical music system. Comprised of a number of different modules, Bricolo is meant to simplify the act of incorporating robotics and physical objects in
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