Dreaming

Those of you that have seen Minority Report, will remember Tom Cruise draging objects across a screen and manipulating them in all kinds of ways, or pushing them aside to bring up something new. I dreamt about doing exactly that yesterday. It was really cool. No doubt the dream was brought on by a video of Jeff Han, a research scientist at NYU's Courant Institute I saw recently. Click here.

The guys at NYU have come up an interface, which responds not only to touch and gestures, but to varying degrees of pressure. In the video he flips photos across the screen, zooms in, throws them away, and calls up new ones, among a variety of other cool uses. Truly amazing! Read about Han here.