Friday, January 15, 2010

iBar - largest multitouch touchscreen

This is the surface of an interactive, 10 meter long bar. Every glass, cup, cellphone, car key, businesscard or even fingers will be recognized.


Could these kinds of projects change the way we interact in the future? It is nice to see and it has a very cool effect. But what if we lose our natural ability to interact and communicate as we move into the future and get more and more used to these kinds of technology.

Right now we are only using it as a fun thing and it play around with, but what if in the future we use it to interact with each other and lose touch with our nature. It is a crazy thought but something I somehow see happening, especially with the generation that is growing up in todays digital era.

On the brighter side of things, I like this project as people can interact with each other, anything that is placed on the bar top is recognized. In the next video I'm going to post, microsoft takes it one step further.

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