Chris Harrison, student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University has made Skinput, a technology that appropriates the human body for acoustic transmission, allowing the skin to be used as a finger input surface : "In particular, we resolve the location of finger taps on the arm and hand by analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through the body. We collect these signals using a novel array of sensors worn as an armband. This approac...

iMAL - interactive Media Art Laboratory vendredi 19 février 2010, à 10:00 A research project on authoring and controlling interactive scenarios for music, performing and installation art Presentations * Demo * Workshop * Performances * Exhibition ------------------------------------------------------- with Yannick Antoine, Pascale Barret, Laura Colmenares, Yacine Sebti (chantiers iMAL), Renaud Rubiano, Georges Gagnerez, Loïs Drouglazet (didascalie.net), Mathieu Chamagne, Charles...

At the Arts Electronica center, the Fablab explores design with the new generation of 3Dprinters.The printer:    The material used by this printer: plastic wires of various colors. No this camcorder does not work it was printed on a 3D printer but is only a prototype.  Those 2 functional large clocks were entirely produced on a 3D printer by the MIT labs. All this shows the start of an entirely new field as also presented during the Lift France conference in Marseille l...