Tangible Computing at MIT

James Patten is PhD candidate with MIT Medial Lab's Tangible Media Group and his work on the physical object based interface is truly amazing to look at.

But are these 'Tangible Interfaces' really intuitive? They look very cool though. I'm sure this will have its own learning curve...

Also, keeping this on-topic and still getting Flash into the picture, I remember something Yugo Nakamura had been working on with Sony, where he had given a demo at a FlashForward of a way to tangibly exchange business cards. You basically drag a business card from your computer desktop on to a table and the other person can pick the card up from the table and put it into their computer. And it seems it was prototyped using Flash. Anybody remember?

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