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Nokia Builds a Touchscreen Display Made of Ice
hasanabbas1987 writes "Touchscreens have been with us for quite some time now and we have seen all kinds of them: resistive touch, capacitive, multi-touch, etc. However, Nokia's research lab in Tampere, Finland has developed a rather unique kind of touchscreen: a touchscreen made of ice. Well, to be honest, it's not really a touchscreen for everyday use, nor is it very portable, as the rig includes a projector and some infrared cameras (PDF) which are connected to a computer, but after all it's a touchscreen made out of ice and that is quite remarkable. Nokia says this 'playful experiment' reveals that interactive touch displays can be built anywhere, and we are very sure that Mr. Freeze from Batman will be highly interested in the project."
Wow, nice straight copy and paste job of the blog post there...
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It's not really a "touch screen" like on an iPad et al, it's really a "touch surface" like on the Microsoft Surface.
Cool
Icy what you did there.
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"Every so often"? I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's probably built regularly around once a year. Usually around the same time to boot.
That work was just published at the ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces conference, so there is a rather more coherent explanation (and another video) at:
http://www.dfki.de/its2010/papers/sp199.html
(Not affiliated with either group, but ITS was a lot of fun)
Yah, I live in Kiruna (you can see the site from the hill across my house if you have a good set of binoculars). The Ice Hotel gets rebuilt from ice blocks hauled up from the frozen Torne river every year. I believe it's some sort of collaborative art/architechtural project as far as the actual design and building goes, but I'm not really sure. It's privately owned, in any case.
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For anyone who doesn't feel like clicking through the slow copy-and-paste blog to get to the actual NewScientist article:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827875.800-worlds-first-ice-touchscreen-virtually-burns.html
...around once a year. Usually around the same time to boot.
Man, they need to work on those init scripts. Get some services starting in parallel.....
...gives "Sticky Keys" new meaning...
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I give it a couple of months before it becomes vaporware.
Please do not use this type of chilling humor.
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"The system could be used in cold countries for interactive displays..." I couldn't help but laugh at that. I just imagine them showing up in Alaska planning to sell this to all the Eskimo's to use in their igloos and being shocked that they actually have heated homes now.
They do it every year in Quebec. see: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/06/earlyshow/living/travel/main1183527.shtml