Back in August 2005 I wrote about Printball by Benjamin Gaulon, a machine that ‘prints’ dot images on walls using a computer controlled paintball gun.
This video shows what happens when Nvidia give money to Mythbusters to make a hyper version of a paintball printer in 2009.
Recently I saw the Facadeprinter (shown below), created by Berlin [...]

Curious Displays is the thesis project of Julia Yu Tsao (Sept 2009), a concept that explores our future relationship with displays in the home. What if our display was ‘alive’, like little swarming bugs? What if your nano display was intelligent, connected to objects in your house and your communications?
“Curious Displays is a product [...]

A collection of projects that use tactile physical particles as an interface…
Sandscape (2003)

The Sandscape project by the Tangible Media Group at MIT follows on from their 2002 project Illuminating Clay.
“The users can alter the form of the landscape model by manipulating sand while seeing the resultant effects of computational analysis generated and projected on the [...]

Daniel Shiffman has been hacking a Color Kinetics LED tile and documenting the process.
By packet sniffing the data from Color Kinetics software to the tile enabled Daniel to figure out how it worked. He has now created a Processing library that reads the pixels of the display window, converts them to a 12×12 matrix, and [...]

Ok my last multi-touch post for a while. Jens Wunderling, a student of digital media class UDK Berlin, had also been creating a multi-touch surface for a community noticeboard project.
Jens began his project quite some time ago, but has had to put it on hold to complete other university work. The whole process has [...]

More examples of multi-touch surface interaction, this time in the form of Tangent, created by students Christian Iten and Daniel Lüthi.
Also using the FTIR technique camera tracking technique. The videos show a variety of interaction model demos, whilst not as complex as some of Jefs’ work, its a great diploma project. They have however [...]

Created by Stefano Baraldi (at Natural Interaction), tabulaTouch is a multi-touch sensing platform for tabletop interaction. The first application tabulaMaps allows gestural zooming and navigation over maps. Watch a video.
Although using Frustrated Total Internal Reflection as premiered by Jef Han, Stefano was developing a similar technique for this Lightable when Jefs paper on the [...]

If you aren’t familiar with the beautiful work of Sachiko Kodama then you are missing out. These amazing works use the black magnetic fluid called Ferrofluid. I suggest you take a look at this collection of work.
I have previously seen a number of projects also using this fluid and wanted to share a few of [...]