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Taichi Inoue made this unique touchscreen system. As the pictures at the link illustrate, the screen lies at the bottom of a water tank about eighteen inches deep. But the user needs to insert just two inches of a finger into the water to activate a feature on the screen. Inoue accomplished this by directing a webcam at the surface of the water. The webcam then measures the location and depth of the finger to provide instructions to the computer.
http://taichi.s372.xrea.com/minamo_en.html via Make
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--TwoDragons
I know what MY answer to that question would be! ;-)
--TwoDragons
I can't catch the world as beautiful and wonderful as you do. I would like to, but I can't.
We are part of a chemical chain reaction that started eons ago when RNA was first produced in the primal earth. We are here just because some materials react with others. We follow light, food, sex... And for most of us is so hard to get some or all of those.
We are just worms with a bigger brain and our consciousness is the worst damnation. I simply can't forget I must die, every day, every five minutes I spend iddle I remember I must disappear and never have existed. I would like to belive in god. All I do is keep my hands busy.
This sadness, this fear, this small world, this body, that will bury me and delete the whole universe from existence. This who I am, takes away from me the people I most wanted to be near. Every year is the same year, every day is the same day...
Yes we are that small. I'm that small and I can't smell the roses without remembering it.
I'll admit, I'm a very devout Christian. Perhaps that colors my perception of the world around me, and how even a small thing like myself exists in it. But even before I converted, I always looked at the universe around me and delighted in all its marvels--and felt like an honored guest at the most incredible function in existence. I just can't look at all this, and believe it happened by simple chance.
But that's a debate for another time... ;-)
--TwoDragons
I just work all day.
Enjoy those moments, hon. When they hit two, you'll be really glad for your powers of memory recall... ;-)
Yayo--Work...oof. Did you have to use that awful four-letter-word...? *shudders*
--TwoDragons