Pervasive Computing Research That Reminds Me of Minority Report

Here is an interesting ubiquitous computing research video from Japan. The video is kind of an anonymous production — it didn’t state the name of the project and who created it. Nevertheless, I love it.

In the video, a large touch-screen display is overlaid with a special grid system. Each square in the grid system is a mini-computing program. The behavior of each program is dynamically configurable by placing a square glass object on top of the touch-screen display. For example, when a user places a glass object that represents “weather” on the screen, the mini-computing program becomes a weather report application.

The most interesting part of the system is the square glass objects. These objects have some kind of built-in pressure sensors. Users can use special pen devices to interact with the mini-computing programs via the glass objects. In addition, the output from one glass object can be used as the control input to another connected glass object.

Honestly, because the demo is so cool, I have doubts about the authenticity of the work. If you know who did this research or where the video came from, please let me know.

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