Microsoft is not the only player in the Multitouch computer table system. Actually, Alessandro Valli has been working on this concept for many years. Have a look at the latest work out of Natural Interaction. “SensitiveTable’s interface, Skin, is at an advanced stage of development. Last month’s tech demo shows some of the features we are investigating. The multitouch table itself now features zero force sensitivity.”
Learning binary addition would have been more interesting if it were demonstrated using a Binary Marble Adding Machine. Video after the jump. “The core of the invention is a modification of the divide by two flipflop to retain the marble that falls off the right side, and keep it until the flipflop is flipped to the left by the next marble. See small diagram above right. The retention of this
Imagitronics from Japan shared his latest creation with us in the Hacked Gadgets forum. It’s a USB Controlled Traffic Light Status Indicator which he built to show the number of running applications at a glance. “I retrofitted this generic “Blinking Traffic Light†with a USB module and wrote a simple Mac application to monitor my computer usage and reflect the results in by changing the stoplight. This project was born
Check out this Computer Controlled Room Ambilight Controller that Mike built. I didn’t realize that there was an open source program that would perform the same screen analysis as the Phillips Ambilight system, this gives me some ideas… Video after the jump. “What it basically does is, it waits for info from the PC through the RS232 interface and then controlls the brightness of the different collors. I then wrote
There are so many devices around that let us charge our gadgets on the go but this wind turbine idea is unique. I can just imagine the second version will come with an optional cap mount clip. 🙂 “The prototype, which weighs just 150g and can be mounted on a tent. The unit is designed to generate and store power during the day to allow charging in the evening. Orange
If you like cutting edge gadgets then you need to get your hands on a Wi-Fi radio, but what if you have a love for antiques? Alinke used a vintage radio housing and modified a Wi-Fi Radio to fit inside. At first glance it looks like an antique, well until you spot the LCD display anyway. 🙂 “I found a local vintage radio dealer in town. He’s a real purist
Is there no end to the cool projects that can be done with the Wiimote? I wonder how many people are buying a Wiimote without the console to play around with and make cool hacks like this one? “Nice experiment using my Nintendo Wiimote as a controller for the OSC frequency of my Moog Little Phatty… (Check out the OSC knob cursor moving on the LP) It sound like
