Material World
August 1, 2008
Perhaps to Virilio’s dismay, Scientists have decided that the object does have a place on the internet. In this case, banal objects are used to activate software.
A project from the Tangible Interfaces class at MIT gave birth to a weird but potentially useful idea – using physical objects as activators of computer processes. This unusual concept software is called Amphibian, and uses the very specific weight of everyday objects to trigger computer processes. Weighing the objects on a small scale connected to a computer will match the weight with the digital process, and make it happen.
via PSFK
