Fairy Lights ~ Plasma Voxels Projection Display!

Check out Fairy Lights, a technique for projecting plasma voxels!

"We present a method of rendering aerial and volumetric graphics using femtosecond lasers. A high-intensity laser excites a physical matter to emit light at an arbitrary 3D position. Popular applications can then be explored especially since plasma induced by a femtosecond laser is safer than that generated by a nanosecond laser. There are two methods of rendering graphics with a femtosecond laser in air: Producing holograms using spatial light modulation technology, and scanning of a laser beam by a galvano mirror. The holograms and workspace of the system proposed here occupy a volume of up to 1 cm^3; however, this size is scalable depending on the optical devices and their setup. [...] Although we focus on laser-induced plasma in air, the discussion presented here is also applicable to other rendering principles such as fluorescence and microbubble in solid/liquid materials."

Freeform ~ ML's Adaptive and Dynamic Furniture

Media Lab demos Transform as Adaptive and Dynamic Furniture...

inFORM @ CH ~ Topomorphic Displayfulness!

Lovely inFORM exhibit at Cooper Hewitt Design Museum! A tangible topomorphic dancing display with playful properties...

Ultrahaptics ~ Focused Sound Touch Feedback!

BBC Click's Stephen Beckett spots Ultrahaptics...

"Researchers in Bristol have created a device that makes invisible objects in mid-air that you can touch and feel. The Ultrahaptics system works by focusing ultrasound waves emitted from a collection of tiny speakers."

Transform ~ Tangible MIT Topomorphic Display!

MIT Media Lab colleagues from Tangible Media group reveal Transform, their latest expo-grade topomorphic robotic display! It's really a "dance play"! Here's Fast CoDesign piece and Brochure.