"Super Cilia Skin is a literal membrane separating a computer from its environment. Like our skin, it is haptic I/O membrane that can sense and simulate movement and wind flow. Our intention is to have it be universally applied to sheath any surface. As a display, it can mimic another person's gesture over a distance via a form of tangible telepresence. A hand-sized interface covered with Super Cilia Skin would produce subtle changes in surface texture that feel much like a telepresent "butterfly kiss."
A small object surrounded with Super Cilia Skin could propel itself across the floor, or stop to create visually expressive changes in surface. Conversely, a Super Cilia Skin surface could propel objects across it using mechanical gestures like the movements of a centipede's feet."
"4D-Pixel is a smart surface which physically reacts to your voice, music and shows relievo letters. This interactive sculpture is a merging of electromagnetics, software and electronics. The dynamic of the wall is made of hundreds of pixels which react on the dynamic in soundfrequencies.
This way there is a direct relation between the human activity and the appearance of the surface; in this fusion between body and machine."
"Wind 3.0 exists out of hundreds of fibers which, through a merging of electronics and ventilators, move and interact with the visitor.
Wind 3.0 plays with the relation and differences between nature and technology. The hundred of ventilators stimulate this sensation straight to the skin; prepared to be blown away!" ..they say.
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Tonmoebel.blogspot.com is an online research database for my final work and diploma project "Tonmoebel| Von Gelsenkirchen nach Houston" at HbK Saar University, Germany.
The German word Tonmöbel is not really translatable into English, for which there is no English word. It is an assembly of Tone and Furniture * . This term was used in the 50ies for those big wooden ancient looking pieces of music furniture with radio, phono, record-changing systems and in most cases an included mini-bar.
My research focuses on many different things, as you can see if you watch the links. It's about New Material, Acoustics, Product Design, the History of German Design of the 50ies, Arts, Synaesthetics, and much more..
* German: Ton | Möbel English Tone| Furniture
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