This is purely a concept and there are no plans to produce an actual device based on this concept.

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Read about the project at

http://mozillalabs.com/seabird/

The Mozilla Concept Series provides an environment to provoke ideas for the future of the web.

See more details at

http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries

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http://tangible.media.mit.edu/person.php?recid=81

The full title of the project is Beyond  - A collapsible Input device for Direct 3D Manipulation beyond the Screen.

http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project.php?recid=139

It explores a technique for drawing in 3D on a 2D surface using an input device which collapses onto itself,  giving the impression of being pushed into the screen – watch the enclosed video to get a better idea of what’s happening.

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It will be interesting to see whether this technique will be of any use in 3D CAD software. Towards the end of the video ( 1:41 ) is a demonstration of how to create simple extruded shapes.

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The SOE’s combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use machines at work, in the living room, in conference rooms, in vehicles. The g-speak platform is a complete application development and execution environment that redresses the dire constriction of human intent imposed by traditional GUIs. Its idiom of spatial immediacy and information responsive to real-world geometry enables a necessary new kind of work: data-intensive, embodied, real-time, predicated on universal human expertise.

g-speak

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

Digital Pottery Experiment 1

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Digital Pottery Experiment 2

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Put on your red-blue 3D glasses and go to the website provided at Neave.com and try it out for yourself.

http://www.neave.com/anaglyph/

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The concept has been developed by the Nokia Research Center (NRC) in partnership with the Nanoscience Center at the University of Cambridge, and demonstrates how a future mobile device can be transformed into completely different shapes.

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Nanotechnology enables the creation of materials that are flexible, can be stretched, made transparent and are very strong. A device made out of a material like this could be folded to fit into a pocket or opened out to present a larger working suruface area.

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The material could be self-cleaning and the surface could even incoporate a covering of “nanograss” structures which would allow it to harvest solar enery and be self-powered.

Read more about this concept at

http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/research/demos/the-morph-concept

Nokia Research is at

http://research.nokia.com/

and the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre can be found at

http://www.nanoscience.cam.ac.uk/

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Using emerging techology including a flexible OLED screen, wireless (induction) charging and DLP projector the resultant design represents a unique and practical solution.

(Check out all the details of the design from Curventa at: http://www.curventadesignworks.com/what/gadget-show/)

Currently only a concept. Will we ever see something like this available in the marketplace?

Possibly, when the cost of the individual components required reaches an acceptable (low) unit cost.

References:

http://gadgetshow.five.tv/

http://www.curventadesignworks.com/

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