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Demo: The Art of Interfaces

Artistic, functional devices from MIT’s Media Lab, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

The MIT Media Lab, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, is developing new user interfaces that are both artistic and functional. It’s research with a focus: says Hiroshi Ishii of the Tangible Media group, “We want to make information graspable.”

[Images coming real soon. – Ed.]

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