I think that kind of technologie offer a type of interaction, inherent to work pd: to connect, to drag, to move with fingers. An [objent] become in a pseudo-phisical object represented front eyes,  in interaction with a sensible environment. Reactable is a simply experiment in that way
<br><br>Is easy to see that in next future, the artist, and researchers, will use that kind of &quot;let think with your hands&quot;<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/5/31, Spencer Russell &lt;<a href="mailto:spencer.f.russell@gmail.com">
spencer.f.russell@gmail.com</a>&gt;:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Really, it seems to me like the true father of &quot;Surface&quot; is Jeff Han&#39;s
<br>amazing multitouch surface:<br><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/video/player.html?bctid=769654555">http://www.fastcompany.com/video/player.html?bctid=769654555</a><br><br>Also check out his talk at TED from a couple years ago:
<br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ</a><br><br>On 5/30/07, Cesare Marilungo &lt;<a href="mailto:cesare@poeticstudios.com">cesare@poeticstudios.com</a>&gt; wrote:
<br>&gt; Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:<br>&gt; &gt; Though I&#39;m a big fan of Reactable, and quite not a fan of Microsoft, and<br>&gt; &gt; though I do recognize the similarities, I don&#39;t think the creators of<br>&gt; &gt; Reactable invented computer vision, nor the idea of a touch display.
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