This is a link to a video of a wearable computer developed by MIT media lab students that is able to turn any surface into an interactive display screen – Check it out!
We are all aware that computers have become exponentially smaller and more powerful but this is significant because it is a step toward eliminating the physical object all together – or at least imagining a world like this. The idea of not needing a camera to take a picture or not needing a physical screen in order to interact with a computer further blurs the line between virtual world and reality or physical world. Worlds are colliding! Between starving our material resources and new technologies which reduce the need for physical objects, how will this affect industrial design? hmmm, maybe we should all bulk up on interaction design courses.
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