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The XRDS magazine published by ACM is out now with an edition dedicated to the future of interaction. With a series of articles about tangible interfaces, brain-machine interface, physical computing and pervasive computing. The magazine even has a Hiroshi Ishii’s profile, the MIT Media Lab professor, precursor in several concepts in this area.

Concidence or not,  here is a recent lecture of John Underkoffler also from MIT Media Lab. The title is  ”The future of the UI”.

Made yesterday here at home, I used integrated notebook webcam. Olive oil is the drum, pepper controls pitch and the cube is the clap. Rotating objects on the table controls the BPM (Beats Per Minute) or the intensity (in the case of pitch).

Build with Pure Data and Reactivision.

All foods used in this video are vegans :)