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Very interesting video about the working and use of tangible widgets. More information here

Japanese inventers have found another use for touchscreens: vending machines! "An embedded camera will recognize your gender and age, allowing the machine to recommend a beverage suitable to whatever stereotype is attached to your particular circumstances."

Thanks to Priscilla Machils for sending this link!

For the graphic interface of our multitouch table, we will make short animations of paper objects like an envelope, a cover, a folder... We use stop motion because of the tactile and crafty look this technique will create. Today we prepared our studio for the shooting and made some tests with different paper textures.

Gagarin has designed an interactive table for the Sea Monsters Centre in Bildudalur Iceland, opened in June 2009. The table shows a map of Arnarfjord wherein visitors can hunt for monsters in the fjord and find tales stories deriving from the area. Click here for more information.

This demo is almost a year old, but I didn't notice it before. Social soundmachine is an interactive tabletop which encourage users to create electronic music in an intuitive way. http://socialsoundmachine.com/

SenseWall was created for the Department of Computer Engineering of the Coimbra University in Portugal. It consists of a multi-touch wall with a display area of 2.8m x 1.05m. Its purpose is to let pupils and research groups learn new HCI concepts and highlight their creativity by giving them the tool to develop interesting applications.

Augmented Shadow is a design experiment by Joon Moon. He produced an artificial shadow effect through the use of tangible objects on a displayable tabletop interface. His goal is to offer a new type of user-experience.

The project plays on the fact that shadows present distorted silhouettes depending on the light.