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03/25/2006

Sony Data Tiles

We have seen the future of portable computing, and it's data tiles. Tagged transparent tiles are used to show dynamic graphical information when placed on a sensor-enhanced display. For those who haven't seen this technology in action, a video clip is provided after the jump.

“I am interested in designing a new human computer interaction style for highly portable computers, that will be situation-aware and assistance-oriented rather than command oriented.” Jun Rekimoto, Director, Interaction Laboratory, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.
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Posted at 03/25/2006 08:14am by Alice
Amazing video !
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Posted at 03/25/2006 09:08am by ac
WOW WO W WOW WOW WOW i want some
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Posted at 03/25/2006 09:09am by Bud
That's quite interesting, although not very practical right now. It's major draw back is the physical tiles... other than that it's a very cool idea. I still think the future lies in multi-touch pressure sensitive screens.
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Posted at 03/25/2006 09:28am by Daoud
that is pretty crazy
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Posted at 03/25/2006 11:06am by joss
this is amazing....i cant even believe it.
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Posted at 03/25/2006 11:51am by ALX
OMG I've seen the future! And it is Sony. Imagine syncing this with system with your laptop, phone, pda, psp AND ps3 by having little tiles for each device. And did anyone see what that video that was streaming to the screen? It was showing a mouse someone using a mouse to pull things off of his laptop and onto the table next to it with a projector!!!!! How crazy is that? An extention of your desktop LITERALLY on your desktop!!!
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Posted at 03/25/2006 12:25pm by kevin
thats crazy
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Posted at 03/25/2006 12:28pm by Matt
insane
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Posted at 03/25/2006 12:53pm by Gae
thats fricken awesome!where can i get one?
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Posted at 03/25/2006 1:06pm by Dave
...idk if i should be really impressed or wondering wtf these are gonna do for me? am i gonna be buying massive ammounts of tiles in the future for my tile-computer?
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Posted at 03/25/2006 1:58pm by 1337
The physical tiles make it impracticle.
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Posted at 03/25/2006 3:20pm by Grant
I like the physical aspect of it... without a little hands-on action obesity in this country would be even worse.
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Posted at 03/25/2006 8:11pm by Leomar
I swear I saw this last year through engadget.
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Posted at 03/25/2006 8:31pm by K-SO
pretty sick... cept itll be like the second coming of floppy disks..... but MUCH MUCH cooler
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Posted at 03/25/2006 9:04pm by loppydisk
cool but it looks so unreal, like wow dose it know what you want to do. i think its edit together. a special effect from minorty report.
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Posted at 03/26/2006 00:04am by Dazzle
hey 1337, how are tiles impracticle? if you can stack a cd, you can stack a tile you dummy.
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Posted at 03/26/2006 6:08pm by Nerowski
neat
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Posted at 03/27/2006 03:50am by OhGizmo! - Gadgets, Innovation and Design » The Future Of Display, Sony Data Tiles
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Posted at 03/27/2006 3:54pm by Keith
I still don't get what those tiles are for. How in the world does all this work? As an electrical engineer I just cannot see enough from this video but I guess that it is just a teaser video. All I do know is that whoever made this is very professional and loves his work.
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Posted at 03/27/2006 10:59pm by Brett
I love this idea but I agree with Dave, is this going to be a market ploy to make consumers purchase a whole crapload of tiles or are the essential tile going to be included?
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Posted at 03/28/2006 12:46pm by ed666
the point of this being???
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Posted at 03/31/2006 08:54am by Donald
This sort of tile-tablet is ancient. A tablet device like this was shown on BBC's Tomorrow's World years and years ago. All that being said, at the time I thought it was way cool and i wanted one back then. I really dont know why we haven't already seen it.
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Posted at 04/05/2006 11:16am by Death
I have to say that it looks very nice...But is there actually a point to it all? :-O Essentially, what this system appears to involve (IMHO) is glass tiles with RFID chips in them that sit on top of a normal LCD flat-screen. The signal from the RFID chip tells the LCD what kind of tile is sitting where, and displays the relevant information in the chosen part of the screen! I'm sorry...I might have misunderstood part of the concept, but I'm quite certain that I can do exactly the same on a Windows 3.11 desktop! :-P Farewell... :-) >> Death <<
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Posted at 04/05/2006 11:18am by Death
I have to say that it looks quite nice...But is there actually a point to it all? :-| Essentially, what this system appears to involve (IMHO) is glass tiles with RFID (Radio Frequency ID) chips in them that sit on top of a normal LCD flat screen. The signal from the RFID chip tells the LCD what kind of tile is sitting where, and displays the relevant information in that part of the screen! :-O I'm sorry...I might have misunderstood part of the concept here, but I'm quite certain that I can do exactly the same on a Windows 3.11 desktop! :-P Farewell... :-) >> Death <<
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