VIDEO: Minamo, the Water-based Touch Screen
Touch screens are nothing impressive these days; we've got touch screen phones, tablets, laptops and computers out the wazoo. What we don't see everyday are water-based touch screens.
The video below is a demonstration of the Minamo interface (Minamo means 'surface of water' in Japanese). Creator Taichi Inoue writes that he made Minamo because, "Water is the most intimate material for [the] human body." The process involved placing a tank of water over an LCD display and using a webcam and a light to detect when the users finger breaks the surface. Taichi says a "color tracking system on Max/MSP+Jitter finds the coordinates where the finger appears" and moves the cursor to the spot.
Taichi doesn't provide much else in the way of details but it's an impressive device, even if we can't really see any use for it. Don't we normally like to keep big tanks of water away from our gadgets?
(Taichi Inoue via MAKE)
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water nice idea!
now we are talking about real liquid in crystal display
dont u just wana play with it in the shower ..... oh and the screen is cool too.
I could see where this could come into play in a different way. Not a full tank... currently we see the resistive and capacitive type of touch screens, if we make very thin films and put a very thin layer of water between them, and with the right design, it could make for one of the best feeling, most responsive touch screens on the market. I'm not sure if that is where he is going, but it could lower the cost of the electronics of the touch screen and give better results... Its first use would have to be in 23 inch monitors where they could use a type of web camera to view where the disturbance took place... now it wouldn't have to be far back, using math, you could make it very thin, like the side LED lighting system and work from there.
Thats just my guess on how this crazy idea could lead to an actual usable technology.. but who knows....
THAT'S SO COOL!!!!!! can i add gold fishes in it???
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THAT'S SO COOL!!!!!! can i add gold fishes in it???
The only thing is, depending on how they are picked up, you might have to fight the fishies for the cursor.
The only thing is, depending on how they are picked up, you might have to fight the fishies for the cursor.
I can see it now, fish made digital art! Open drawing program add fish and sell!
This could become a cool art project.
Just for those who don't get it: this was not meant to be a desktop monitor replacement! G.O.D.!!!
I hope it comes with some moisturizer.
Just for those who don't get it: this was not meant to be a desktop monitor replacement! G.O.D.!!!
Ahhh.....The video had me fooled..
Now you can watch porn, and rinse it off when you're done.
And when you're thirsty from carrying that fishtank on top of your latest netbook, you can take a sip!
Very handy concept!
Nice, and it only takes 2000% longer to do stuff. what a concept.
The water is a cool effect, though maybe someone else came to this conclusion, too...
The water tank isn't needed. It's the camera that's doing all the work. HELLO?!
Stupid.
a mac ic... so that's the technology steve jobs has been using in his underwater fortress...simpsons anyone?