Tangible interface

‘Orbit’ completely alters the music streaming experience! Comprising of two parts and a multitude of sensors, the user controls their music through a series of physical movements and pre-set positions instead of through a touchscreen interface; this beautifully marries the digital music with the physical and tangible product. This is all housed within a beautifully designed product that features subtle lighting cues and well-considered touchpoints.

Royal College of Art graduate Eunhee Jo has designed a tactile speaker with a fabric control panel and a speaker that moves to the music (+ movie). The control panel for the Tangible Textural Interface (TTI) speaker is embedded in a concave surface on one side. By pushing the fabric surface, the user can skip tracks, adjust

This series of interactive light objects by Viktor Alexander Kölbig aims to strengthen the relationship between object and user through light sources that not o

Tangible Textural Interfaces – Hideki Yoshimoto, Juhye Lee, Taehyung Kim | Exhibition Show RCA 2012

the interactive audio and lighting project by eun hee jo explores flexible materials as 2D planes, and how they can integrate into an environment.

Lumen: Interactive Visual and Shape Display for Calm Computing (Poupyrev, I., Nashida, T., Maruyama, S., Rekimoto, J., and Yamaji, Y. )

A group of researchers at MIT developed a prototype of a Tangible User Interface (TUI) with ability to dynamically create user interfaces by altering its layout. Named inFORM, the system id built on top of grid-like shape-changing display. It could make use of the way we perceive objects to create an intuitive interface with logical... »

Twins Objects are three pairs of connected devices: Tits Me, Pianoze, and Dual Drums. Nowadays instant messaging is an unmissable actor of our long-distance relationship. However, if we discuss on these platforms with either a very old friend or someone we barely know, result to the same sensory experience. Twins Objects is a quest for new tools of communication, to reassert the worth of human connexions, using the possibilities of the IoT.

Really nice project by Sebastian Rønde Thielke and Anders Højmose created during a three week Tangible User Interface exploration at the "Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design":http://www.ciid.dk. Daily Stack is a playful tool that helps you become more aware of your daily work-flow and time management by creating a physical representation of your tasks. Found via the always great "designboom":http://www.designboom.com/.

The personal website for Ben Arent. An Englishman inventing, designing and running SaaS and tinkering with IoT.

Programmable materials have the power to bring to life inert materials in the world around us. Exoskin, provides a way to embed a multitude of static, rigid materials into actuatable, elastic membranes, allowing the new semi-rigid composites to sense, react, and compute. Membrane-backed rigid materials have the potential to become a broader, more versatile platform for introducing texture change and sensing into a variety of other products as well. By deeply embedding soft materials with…

owow music instruments play music off human motions and drawings to create unique beats and sounds for musical accompaniment.

'push revolution' is a collection of three objects that materialize the ephemeral nature of social media notifications.

the dynamic shape display can render three-dimensional content physically, so users can interact with tangible digital information.

RCA students Sandeep Hoonjan and Xianzhi Zhang have designed a pair of phones that allow people to "physically feel conversations" while apart.