“My battle is against pixels empire! I’ve been fight against it for almost 20 years!” This is the battle cry that Hiroshi Ishii, the next guest at the Meet the Media Guru, shouted in the MIT laboratories to upset a communication system that still occur behind a screen without any chance for kinaesthetic interactions. Ishii […]
Keyboards, mouses, pencil, wheels, multi-touch. Since the start of the electronic revolution, several different peripheralsand interfaceswere invented to connect the real and the digital, atoms with bits, our bodies with electronic (and non-electronic) machines. Today still, the research in this sector is quite bustling, with four major trends gaining ground: vocal, gestural, tactileand (even) neuronalinterfaces. […]
The Dutch designer will be the first guest this autumn. Her work involves fashion, robotics and engineering to understand creativity in the time of craftsmanship 4.0
There’s no barrier between thevirtualand the real: one is the continuation of the other, only in different ways. And this is coming increasingly to the fore as technology seeps into our daily lives. The recent evolution of consumer electronicsis trying to make our “virtual” experiences feel more “natural”: from Steve Jobs’ multi-touch screens to Kinectgestures(the […]