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[yesthattom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-y3ZNaCqs

[Poll #673454]

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[practicallyfame.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of http://www.jamespatten.com/audiopad/index.php

I <3 AudioPad.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

with the exception of the dancing bunny, I saw nothing that I haven't seen done with stylus-based screens.

The dancing bunny part was not impossible, but I was wondering because there didn't seem to be a command given to start animation mode over the drawing mode. The drawing was fine, the animation itself was fine, but it was unclear how that might work (since it allowed the eyes to be drawn, how does it know to differentiate between an animation move and a drawing move?)

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

I think by the length of time the finger stays still. The eyes weren't instant.

[ntang.livejournal.com]

If it's fake it's the most elaborate fake I've seen in a while...!

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/
http://forum.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.php?showtopic=5667
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1095034.1095054

[grendelgongon.livejournal.com]

What zie said. :)

[dpfesh.livejournal.com]

flyxiepixie just posted the other day on how she wants one :D I hadn't seen the video tho - it's really neat!

Would make an awesome coffee table

[sweh.livejournal.com]

If it's not real now, it soon will be. The physical pad input technology clearly exists. What's more interesting is the user interface. Once you have multiple "click" points you can do the enlarging/shrinking of windows quite nicely.

What makes me think that it's a mockup is the sheer number of interface changes that were being demonstrated; eg the "jelly mould" type animations, where the user would click and hold on two places and move, and the whole object would animate. It's just too clever.

I do expect to see something similar, but not quite as polished in the next 5 years, though!

[thunder24.livejournal.com]

It would bring a whole new dimension to fighting games wouldn't it now? If it's real that is...

BTW if it is, I want one.

[softlywhispered.livejournal.com]

Disney had something like this in thier Imagination pavillion years ago, so I don't see this as being fake, maybe a just more up to date version. How's cali? Ian got a 2nd offer from G, and turned em down, still insufficent for us to move all the way out there. *sigh*

[ayse.livejournal.com]

I saw something like this when I worked at Disney years ago, and before that at NASA. But I think there were some bits of fakery, in the sense that there seemed to be a lot of times when they cut the film just as the thing was about to do something stupid or wrong or come to a crashing halt, or to change what was on the screen so you couldn't see that the thing they were doing wasn't as flexible as it could be.

It's like watching somebody demo Photoshop: they make it look totally seamless and easy to do really complex things, but that's because they've chosen easy problems they know how to solve, and made a demo that demonostrates what they want to show you.

So maybe it's gotten better while I've been off in grad school, and the places where I began to cringe because I knew it was going to crash have been fixed, but I do think they manipulated the video to show the best parts.

[maryheather.livejournal.com]

Looks like the ultimate stoner toy, if connected to an iPod. It will probably show up in a Sharper Image catalog soon.

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

I've seen a similar device in a piece on art and technology. Given what Henry Kaufman was doing in 2003, it takes very little imagination to see this as an extension of that work.

what is fake?

[cos]

Of course we can't know just from watching the video, but I don't see anything there that's obviously fake, so I see no reason why it couldn't be real. I wonder, though, what "real" means, and what fake means? For example:
- they didn't actually film that - a computer program did it all!
- they did actually film that - but it was a pre-set animation, with someone who had practiced matching their hands to it
- it was filmed, and interactive as implied
- it wasn't filmed, but it was an interactive virtual reality, controlled by a person in real time
etc.

There are more possibilities than just "real" and "fake"

[drwex]

It's almost certainly real. I've seen many similar things at CHI conferences and the like.