Wired reports on the Audiopad, a futuristic tool for composing live electronic music, developed by James Patten and Ben Recht.
The colorful, dynamic, interactive “mixing” console is projected onto a flat table top.
Based on Patten’s earlier Sensetable, the table-top computer interface is similar to the Korg Kaoss Pad, a finger-controlled musical effects processor. Users move checker-like pieces around the board. They have a passive wire coil that is read by an inductor in the table to determine the “pucks” location. “Hot spots” on the table open new options while movements of the pucks can change volume, balance, pitch, etc.
Perhaps the interface would also be useful in coordinating, directing or monitoring hundreds (or thousands) of wireless users. Mousing over a “flash map” pop-ups info. The inductive puck might be used in big screen projections, too.
I smell a grant!
BTW, Microsoft researchers and their university partners exhibited some of their projects recently. They include a data glove that “spells” sign language on a computer and “Robie the Robot” who attends meetings for you.
Sounds like R.O.B (Robot Operating Buddy), and B.O.B (Brains On Board), developed twenty years ago by Nolan Bushnell.
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