Don’t let the word “Microsoft” scare you, this video shows some extremely well thought-out concepts. Plenty of multi-touch, e-ink, semantic data, telepresence and cloud computing to go around.

You can watch expanded clips at the end of the video embedded above, or watch the full-length version at the blog linked below.

VIDEOS/IMAGES full-length 2019 video and screenshots

ARTICLE/VIDEO

Yet another computer interaction hack from Johnny Lee using the Wii Remote, but this one takes the cake. Turn any standard display into a virtual 3D window.

VIDEO (YouTube via Penny Arcade)

Microphones record an ongoing conversation, graphing the audio in concentric rings, differentiating voices by color. The further inward the rings, the further back in the conversation. Patterns reveal themselves such as individual people not speaking, interrupting, dominating, etc. Arguments and group silences become immediately tangible. A projector displays the data on a table in front of the participants. Further development is planned using pitch and pattern recognition to extract higher level dialectic features.

It follows that increased self-awareness leads to behavior modification. I’d love to break this out while discussing a group project or debating the finer points of living with my housemates — applications are endless.

LINK/IMAGES [project website] (via infosthetics)

an interactive & quite extensive size comparison of the perception of our universe, starting from a proton (1 femtometer) over to a hydrogen atom (100 picometers), a protein nanometer (10 nanometer), & a red blood cell (7-8 micrometer), to the moon (3,764km), a nebula (30 light years), & the outer limits of our universe (13,7 billion light years).

LINK [Universcale] (via infosthetics)

Andy Wilson demoing “video conferencing for the desk” for Robert Scoble at this year’s Microsoft Research TechFest. Video cameras track identical items on two table surfaces and facilitate virtual collaboration.

VIDEO (Google)
LINK/VIDEO [episode of ScobleShow w/ above clip (@10:09)]

Previously: Andy Wilson @ Microsoft Research

Some hot new footage of Jeff Han’s multi-touch interfaces from TED 2007 which came and went a little over a week ago. I’m sure there will be more of the same surfacing soon.

VIDEO [Jeff @ TED 2007 demoing multi-touch] (via infosthetics)

Previously: Perceptive Pixel

Reactable has come a ways since I last saw it a couple years ago — from something that seemed a little pale in comparison to other analogous systems like Audiopad, to something now seriously dripping in delicious synaesthetic badassery. High-ish res videos available on their website.

LINK/VIDEOS/IMAGES [Reactable] (via Pruned)

Previously: Touching Music

I’ve seen Hans Rosling’s Gapminder, a stunning interactive display of world social and economic statistics, but I’ve never taken the time to watch his presentation at TED 2006 until today. His passion for visualizing data that thus far resides in a more nebulous region of global consciousness is inspiring.

VIDEO [myths about the developing world from TED 2006]
LINK [Gapminder]

In case you haven’t seen/heard Mike Rundle and Paul Scrivens released a redesigned 9rules site today and it’s more or less off the chain. And that phrase is more or less stuck in the 90s. Codenamed “Ali” it’s the 5th version of the blog community’s portal.

Check out the new my.9rules section that aggregates your blog posts; flickr, del.icio.us and last.fm accounts; and networks you with other my.9rules users — for members and non-members alike. Social networking for bloggers.

ARTICLE ["9rules Ali"] (9rules Blog)
LINK [9rules.com]