The technology of
inFORM is almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that
three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with
digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of
miles away. And that's only the beginning.
The technology behind the inFORM is basically a fancy
Pinscreen, one of those executive desk toys that allows you to create a rough
3-D model of an object by pressing it into a bed of flattened pins. With
inFORM, each of those "pins" is connected to a motor controlled by a
nearby laptop, which can not only move the pins to render digital content
physically, but can also register real-life objects interacting with its
surface thanks to the sensors of a hacked Microsoft Kinect.
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