Let your fingers do the manipulating

by Alisha Karabinus { Jan 3rd 2008 at 6:00PM }

Forget Wii parties: the hot new trend is creating a 3D interface that you can manipulate with your fingers via the Wii. We can only guess that Minority Report, Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, and other media are heavily influencing people who want their virtual interfaces right now and see the Wii as a path to the future.

Using our new hero Johnny Lee's efforts as a springboard, the guys at Cynergy Labs took the interactive interface and ran with it. With infrared gloves and a Wii remote, a picture is disassembled, reassembled, and moved around on the screen before our very eyes -- and everything is manipulated in mid-air, no actual touching required. The gloves allow for a more delicate (and accurate) range of movements, as is demonstrated later in the video, as they pair the set-up with an interface similar to Microsoft Surface for a distance-enhanced multi-touch experience.

All we can say is: move over, robots. We've got to get busy welcoming our new fingertip overlords.

Tags: cynergy-labs, fingers, hack, interface, johnny-lee, minority-report

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ScoTT @ Jan 3rd 2008 7:05PM

sweet

Lars @ Jan 3rd 2008 7:52PM

Power Glove: So, Eye Toy, we finally meet.

Alisha Karabinus @ Jan 3rd 2008 8:07PM

I try to save these for special occasions, but seriously... LOL.

Tyler @ Jan 3rd 2008 8:13PM

wow.

FantomRedux @ Jan 3rd 2008 8:22PM

must....not.....use....meme......

DO WNAT!

goddamnit........

:P

ZombieOrgasm @ Jan 3rd 2008 11:40PM

Birth of a homebrew project for the Wii?

Very simple idea. But amazing.

Knoxximus @ Jan 4th 2008 12:06AM

Damn....and I though movies were the only place you had to worry about damn crying babies.....THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!

Drew @ Jan 4th 2008 12:53AM

GUYS!!

If anyone asks, I came up with this idea:

Ok, so I'm sure acouple of you have seen how scientists made that picture-projection thing that appears to "float in midair"

JUST like in Star Wars. But they just use some special kind of gas to project the film on. Now, what if they incorperated THIS with it? It would be just like some of the Sci-Fi movies where they can move the floating pictures and shapes in mid air!!

I, am an evil genius.