This Board Lets You Touch And Move Objects Through A Computer

Modern telecommunications let you see and hear things across greatdistances -- but it does nothing for our sense of touch. Engineersat the Massachusetts Institute of Technology want to change that. Agroup at the school's famed Media Lab have developed inFORM, amotorized board that can display digital information in a way thatcan be tangibly felt and manipulated. A computer pushes plasticpins up and down to form a 3D shape, similar to how a Pin Art toyworks. A Microsoft Kinect sensor is used to detect a person'smotion. As MIT's demo video shows, inFORM could

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