randomosity

Ok. This guy is into some cool, cool stuff. Jeff Han has a num­ber of very impress­ive short movies of some of the fas­cin­at­ing pro­to­types. Not only Multi-Touch (which the iPhone has sud­denly become most pub­licly asso­ci­ated with), but some very inter­est­ing work using LEDS as pho­to­di­odes, and his media mir­ror which pitched as art­work, but is a very inter­est­ing exten­sion of the multi-touch reflect­ive feed­back.
So what’s the deal with multi-touch? Hav­ing not touched it yet, it looks rather slick. I have an even bet­ter sense of how the magic is actu­ally hap­pen­ing when you take a look at the embed­ded schem­atic here from Han’s site (click for a lar­ger image). It also gives you an idea of how Apple can con­sider keep­ing the screen of the iPhone as a solid sur­face, not spongy like many touch­screens. If you can just rub the sur­face of the iPhone every slightly and in return inter­act with grace­ful and momentum enhanced ‘ges­tures’ this inter­face can really fly. Will be quite excit­ing to see it soon.

Check out Jeff Han’s site. Very cool blend of tech­no­logy and inter­act­ive creativity.