Archive for January, 2010

symbolsurfing project on The Big Tree

Friday, January 8th, 2010

The symbolsurfing site on the big tree is now live. The research project is working with five places looking at the use and development of the software with people who use their services. We are also making the software available for anyone to download and use.

The site has links to download the relevant software and instructions for setting it up. We welcome your feedback and ideas about it. As the project continues we will be adding pages with more information and ideas.

Have a good weekend.

The symbol surfing project is made possible by a grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

New pocket projector with wifi turns any surface into touch screen

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Happy New Year everyone. Hope you had a good Christmas, and are enjoying the snow.

The Consumer Electonics Show is on in Las Vegas (no I’m not at it), and lots of companies make new product announcements here, and show stuff thats in development.

Light Blue Optics are demoing a  small interactive projector, called the Light Touch. Works on any surface and detects fingers without needing any special treatment to the surface.

I can think of lots of great ways you could use this with people. Looks really interesting