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  • Actuating Widgets on Interactive Tabletops

    Actuating Widgets on Interactive Tabletops

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    This is probably one of the best concepts I’ve seen recently for interactive tabletops. Tangible controls/widgets that can be controlled by magnets to self switch and move across the table. There is also a very interesting approach for redirecting IR light around the magnets so the cameras can pick up the widgets’ presence. Check out…

  • Microsoft Research

    Microsoft Research

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    Although it might not seem like it Microsoft is really along way ahead of nearly all the other major tech companies. But no one really gets to see their cool stuff because it takes place in their research centres and doesn’t always make it into consumer products. Below is a collection of videos from Microsoft…

  • Magnetic Words Multitouch App

    Magnetic Words Multitouch App

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    Ben Foster
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    Here is a small app I created in Flash in less than 10 minutes (most of that time was getting words!). Inspired by those fridge magnets which are a bunch of words that can be mixed and matched to make obscure and hilarious sentences. Excuse the dodgey touch response at the start… my screen still…

  • Invisible Mouse

    Invisible Mouse

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    Here is a cool video that was posted over at the NUI Group forums. This guy has used infra-red lasers and a webcam along with CCV to track the users hand position and movement, which is then translated into cursor movements and clicks. Pretty cool idea.

  • Cool Microsoft Surface Videos

    Cool Microsoft Surface Videos

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    About a year ago I saw these videos pop up on YouTube showing some really cool physics and cloth simulations on Microsoft Surface. I though I would post them here for everyone to see and easily find them again.

  • Vimeo Toy featured on Vimeo Forums

    Vimeo Toy featured on Vimeo Forums

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    A couple weeks ago I created a toy for Vimeo. Vimeo toys a basically an interesting way to visualise a live activity feed. I’m excited to say that they loved my toy and they have featured it in their forums. You can view the toy by clicking the image above, or visit the forum post…

  • Multitouch Jukebox Concept

    Multitouch Jukebox Concept

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    Ben Foster
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    As most people may know, Adobe released CS5 last week and with it Flash CS5 which now has built in native multitouch events. As an experiment with these new APIs I decided to rework my AS3 coverflow into a multitouch music player using gestures to scroll through album covers. Below you can watch a quick…

  • Photo Painter App

    Photo Painter App

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    Ben Foster
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    Here is my latest experiment in Flash… this time its an app that takes a source image (jpg) and paints it giving it a very painterly look. You can tweak some of the settings such as brush size and blur. The image above was created using this. You can download the Air installer or source…

  • ParticlePlayground Air App

    ParticlePlayground Air App

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    Ben Foster
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    Over the last week or two I have been playing around with particle systems and creating my own to learn all the maths equations behind them. Why? I was playing with Trapcode Particular and started wondering what all the maths behind it was. So I started creating my own particle system in Flash from the…

  • WiiFFiti – A WiiFlash experiment

    WiiFFiti – A WiiFlash experiment

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    Ben Foster
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    Recently I have been experimenting with WiiFlash – using a Wii remote to control Flash. Below is a video of my first test app. It is a spray painting app like the WiiSpray though obviously not at featured. I will make the Flash projector file available soon. Update 2-6-2012: Get the app here. Note that…