'Touch the Invisibles’ interface, where you touch what you don’t see
What is real, what we can see or what we can touch? I think we can touch what we see, and I know you think the same as well. Perhaps Japanese designer Nosigner differs and thus in collaboration with Junji Watanabe, Eisuke Kusachi and Hideyuki Ando has designed "Touch the Invisibles," an art installation, an interface of sorts, which can superimpose tactile information onto surfaces or images displayed on the computer display.
The interface will be displayed at the SIGGRAPH 2009 (international conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques). The artwork is designed to perceive the real and digital world through a sense of touch, and this novelty is managed by a fingernail-mounted vibrator used to update images on the PC, which is activated by the information sent to it by the microcomputer, which however is activated by the touch of the finger on the LCD.
With the use of the tactile interface, the user can touch visual boundaries, and gamers and musicians are going to drool for this if it ever becomes real. The beauty of the artistic interface is that any kind of visual image can be displayed with this tactile feedback, including the computer graphics, which I don’t think was ever possible. This Touch the Invisible interface is definitely setting up a world where we will touch even what we don’t see, that day all of us would have shared the same opinion as Nosigner – that we can touch that which is invisible to us.
Via: DesignBoom
