Queen’s University computing professor Roel Vertegaal from the Ontario school’s Human Media Laboratory is investigating futuristic computer screens on Coke cans that would receive RSS feeds and videos (as seen above). He’s also looking at doing this on paper too (view the slideshow on Desktops of the Future for other innovative examples).
“What we’re talking about here is nothing short of a revolution for human-computer interaction,” says Vertegaal, who writes about “organic user interfaces” in the June issue of the Association of Computer Machinery publication called Communications of the ACM.
“We want to reduce the computer’s stranglehold on cognitive processing by imbedding it and making it work more and more like the natural environment,” says Vertegaal, in a statement. “It is too much of a technological device now, and we haven’t had the technology to truly integrate a high-resolution display in artifacts that have organic shapes: curved, flexible and textile, like your coffee mug.”
Thanks to Network World
For more details, stay in touch with Human Media Lab via their blog and videos. Very impressive!
