Our Sixth Sense: Wearable Fluid Interfaces
This week at the TED conference, Pattie Maes from MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group showcased the latest work of her students, “a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done.” Pattie ...
One Screen Access to Your Life
SCOPING OUT THE FUTURE Yale computer scientist David Gelernter is glad that the Microsoft trial is behind us, because “operating systems are lapsing into senile irrelevance,” and we need to move on to the future. And what will the future be all about? “Every piece of digital information you own or share will appear (in ...