Intuitive Musical Instrument

Collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface: Take a look at the video demo of Reactable.

http://www.reactable.com/

Artist Bjork made use of this very cool interactive technology at Coachella 2007.

Human-computer interaction research links

HCI Design at Indiana University:
http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/hcid/research/

Stanford HCI Group:
http://hci.stanford.edu/

CMU HCII:
http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/Research/projects.html

Centre for HCI Design:
http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/research/index.html

HCI at IBM:
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/r.hci.html

HCI at Cornell:
http://www.hci.cornell.edu/projects/projects.htm

HCI at Tufts:
http://hci.cs.tufts.edu/research.html

HCI at Microsoft:
http://research.microsoft.com/research/detail.aspx?id=2

Floating homes video report

From Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=65198

Interactive Gestures Pattern Library

http://www.interactivegestures.com

Proof of Concept

Denver International Airport has a 10-inch diameter pneumatic tube for moving aircraft parts from a warehouse a mile away: TransLogic-50.pdf

Our TransTube initiative for moving products from a neighborhood warehouse quickly to the home is certainly feasible.

The fundamental restart

Stanford researchers seek to overhaul the Internet:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/march14/clean-031407.html

Other clean-slate links:
Stanford program: http://cleanslate.stanford.edu
Carnegie Mellon program: http://100x100network.org
Rutgers program: http://orbit-lab.org
NSF's GENI: http://geni.net

Intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen

Jeff Han, a research scientist at New York University, demonstrates a few primitive applications using a touch-driven screen which responds to multiple touch points and varying levels of pressure > Read more