At the MIT Media Lab, the Tangible Media Group believes the future of computing is tactile. Unveiled today, the inFORM is MIT's new scrying pool for imagining the interfaces of tomorrow. Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away. And that's only the beginning. Created by Daniel Leithinger and Sean Follmer and overseen by Professor Hiroshi Ishii, the technology behind the inFORM isn't that hard to understand. It's basically a fancy Pinscreen, one of those executive desk toys that allows you to create a rough 3-D model of an object by pressing it into a bed of flattened pins. With inFORM, each of those "pins" is connected to a motor controlled by a nearby laptop, which can not only move the pins to render digital content physically, but can also register real-life objects interacting with its surface thanks to the sensors of a hacked Microsoft Kinect. Source : http://is.gd/JA9UBr

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1. One could use this technology in a largescale to create Virtual rooms from VR technology. Meaning that the walls and doors and chairs would magically appear for the individual as they are running through their virtual world.
2. It's real?
3. They never show the light projector installed over the pin table that adds all the color.
4. crazy
5. what is this thing called?
   InForm?
6. that's so cool
7. ...and what the fuck is this?
8. shit reminds me of the devil
9. 1:28 it's like 'pay attention to your fucking phone' XD
10. Amazing
11. This is incredible
12. amazing😘
13. wooow
14. hope this HELPS blind people...
15. its like from big hero 6
16. they should stretch a fabric over it to smooth out the the transition as well as provide a better screen for the projection
17. Dear MIT, you guys are known as a knowledgeable institution, why is it in 30 fps? Get 120 fps plz with your "million dollar wisdom."
18. not amazing at all. Just a little fantasy in applying simple electronic/informatic principles to objects... well, your problem anyway.
19. GET OUT OF MY RECOMMENDATIONS
20. How much is it worth?