The border between our physical world and the digital information that surrounds us is becoming ever thinner. Designer and engineer Jinha Lee wants to eliminate it entirely. As he shows us in this short, impressive speech, his ideas include a pen that penetrates the screen and draws XNUMXD models and a computer model that allows us to penetrate the screen and manipulate digital objects.
His speech in Greek by TED Talks
Throughout the history of computers we have been trying to narrow the gap between us and digital information, the gap between our world material and the world on the screen where our imagination can creep. And this gap has diminished, and more, and more so, and now the gap has reached its size less than one millimeter, the thickness of the glass of a touch screen, and computational power is accessible to everyone.
But I was thinking, what would it be if there were no limits? I started to think it would look like. Originally, I made this tool which penetrates the digital space, when you press it hard on the screen, transports the body material to pixels. Designers can realize their ideas directly into 3 dimensions, and surgeons practicing in virtual instruments below the screen. So with this tool, the limit was exceeded.
But our two hands remain off the screen. How can we get inside and interact with digital information using the skill of our hands to the fullest? In the Microsoft Applied Sciences Department, along with my mentor, Something Boulevard I redesigned the computer and I converted the small space above it keyboard in a digital workplace. Combining a transparent screen and depth camcorders to sense your fingers and face, now you can lift your hands from the keyboard and enter this XNUMXD space and get pixels with your bare hands.
Because windows and files have a place in the real space, you select them with the same ease that you grab a book from the shelf. Then you can browse this book highlighting lines, words in the virtual touch range under each floating window. Architects can expand or rotate the models directly with their two hands. So in these examples, we are entering the digital world.
But what would you say to reversal its role and to make the digital information come to us? I'm sure many of us have had the experience of purchasing and returning items to Internet. Now you don't have to worry about that anymore. What I have here is an augmented reality test case This is the perspective you have from a head-mounted display or a transparent screen when the system perceives the geometry of your body.
Going the idea further, I started to think, instead of simply seeing the pixels in our space, how we can turn them into matter to touch and feel them? How would such a future look like? In the Media Workshop of MIT, along with my counselor Hiroshi Isi and my partner Remi Post, we created this one pixel. In our case, this spherical magnet acts as a three-dimensional pixel in our space, which means computers and people they can move this item anywhere within this small three-dimensional space. What we did in essence is to neutralize gravity and control the movement by combining magnetism and mechanical motion technologies and sensors. And by programming the object digitally, we release it from the shackles of time and space, which means now human movements can be recorded and reproduced and to remain permanently in the material world. So choreography can be physically learned from a distance and Michael Jackson's famous shots can be played again and again as a material reality. Students can use it as a tool learning complex concepts such as motion of planets, physical, and unlike computer screens or books, this is a real, tangible experience that you can touch and feel, and it is powerful. And even more exciting rather than simply turning into matter something that currently exists in computers, is to start imagining how planning the world will even change our day-to-day physical activities.
As you can see, digital information he will not show us anything just but it will begin to act directly on us as part of our environmental material without disconnecting us from our world.
Today, we started talking about the border, but if we remove this border, the only boundary that remains is our imagination.
Thank you.
