{"id":5702,"date":"2008-06-29T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:22","slug":"tangible-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/tangible-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangible Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nNice hack from the MIT Media Lab.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/concept.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Concept\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMost of the objects in your household have a very specific weight which remains unchanged for long periods. This weight, reckoned to several decimal points, can be used as a macro. For instance, your key ring&#8217;s weight could be the macro for your Yahoo password. Or a stapler could indicate your Flickr photostream. To invoke a macro, all you do is place the tangible object on a USB-enabled electronic postal scale. (This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officemax.com\/omax\/catalog\/sku.jsp?skuId=21427715&amp;cm_mmc=Nextag-_-Supplies-_-Mailroom_Shipping-_-Postal_Scales_Meters&amp;srccode=cii_9324560&amp;cpncode=12-55844239-2\">one<\/a> is $85 from Office Max.) The appropriate weight triggers the appropriate computer action.&#160; The experimental software, called <a href=\"http:\/\/amphibian.media.mit.edu\/\">Amphibian<\/a>, runs on Windows only. The project is based in Hiroshi Ishii&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tangible.media.mit.edu\/people\/hiroshi.php\">Tangible Interface<\/a> lab at MIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice hack from the MIT Media Lab. Most of the objects in your household have a very specific weight which remains unchanged for long periods. This weight, reckoned to several decimal points, can be used as a macro. For instance, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/tangible-interface\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[268],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}