Archive for March, 2008

CeBIT 08

ir_touch.jpgCebit, an annual trade show for information and telecommunications technology, was the second destination on our trip to the north of Germany. Jakob spent one day wandering around looking at the bleeding edge of IT-technology presented in over 20 exibition halls. Continue reading to see more pictures and interesting links.

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Flux 4 Friends

flux_magdeburg_06.jpgOn of our Flux tables has set up at our partner lab in Magdeburg.  Prof. Raimund Dachselt and his team gave us a warm welcome and together the multi functional table was installed in a newly established lab dealing with the magic of future interaction. In addition to the rear-projection setup also a top-projection table featuring 1080p full HD-top projection will be installed in the lab. Continue reading to see more images of the installation.
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Impressions from TEI’08

Thomas Seifried and Matt Jervis at TEI’08From February 18 to 20 the research-community for Tangible User Interfaces came together at the 2nd conference on Tangible Embedded Interaction in Bonn, Germany. Matt Jervis from University of Waikato and Thomas from the MI-Lab presented the results of their work on enhanced filing folders and cabinets called “Aroo - Smart Folders“. One of the conference highlights was the keynote talk by Hiroshi Ishii presenting the vision behind his work and that it might effect people in 200 years (see picture in more…)

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