where i work, at the medialab, we all know this one trick: whereas interactive technology demos break, movies of interactive demos are always reliable. we call this the ‘wizard of oz’ demo, where all of the ‘interaction’ is actually cued by the filmmaker(who usually is also the researcher). chriswoebken took this to an extreme with these beautifully produced videos about new concepts for interaction. in this case the stop-motion medium works perfectly to describe a future of smart materials made possible by nano-technology. the videos perfectly illustrate the interfaces and even though the ideas aren’t groundbreaking some of the clever details could one day become reality.
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[…] are far more powerful as inspiration for future kinds of tangible interfaces, maybe one day when nanotechnology gives us the ability to use atoms as dynamic input/output media the same way pixels move […]