Mogees is an interactive gestural-based surface for realtime audio mosaicing.
In this video we show how it is possible to perform gesture recognition just with contact microphones and transform every surface into an interactive board.
Through gesture recognition techniques we detect different kind of fingers-touch and associate them with different sounds.
OMG, that’s awesome.
Most of our positional touch technology came from the particle physics world. There were a lot of spin offs starting in the late 60s as they tried to automate particle detection and physicists left academia and research to try their hand selling electronic gear. (One group I knew sold the first digital capacitance meter and nearly made it to the market with a digital thermometer.)
One touch panel was just a sheet of glass you could put in front of a CRT. It had some piezoelectric emitters, a few detectors and a wire wrap board full of chips to decode it. It did single touch fairly well, and if you analyzed the raw data with a computer, rather than using their board, you could even do multi-touch.
We wound up going for a capacitor based system that was a bit better than translucent for our application, but it was neat seeing all the great ideas being tried out. (An ultrasound based drawing tablet was less pleasant, as I used to have a rather high range of hearing, and nearly vomited while all the older guys wondered what was getting me so green.)