The focus of technological developments seems to be about encorporating touch and physicality into our electronic devices.
In entertainment - the Nintendo DS, operated by a stylus on a touch screen and the Nintendo Wii which uses a motion sensitive control system. The Wii allows for a level of immersion and 'reality' to game play. The Nintendo DS features an application called pictochat which allows users to create a wireless chat room with other Nintendo DS users, whereby they can swap drawings created on a simulacra of a sketchpad - complete with lined paper, a scribbling sound, different thicknesses of pencil and an eraser. I would be interested to see if these technologies could be 'hacked' in some way so that computer games systems could be used to make artworks.
WACOM pen - allowing us to draw digitally in a more naturalistic way - from the japanese WA meaning harmony and COM meaning computer. A tool to allow us to be in harmony with technology? On talking with the WACOM representative at the Adobe Live conference in May, I discovered that it is now possible to draw directly onto a computer screen with a WACOM pen instead of onto a separate tablet. I was told that there are future plans to develop fabric screens so that the process of drawing seems more natural. WACOM bamboo site
The apple iphone will be the first mobile device to be operated entirely by touch screen and will feature a phone, music and video player and internet access - iphone
Minority Report computer screen
Jeff Han - touch screen technology being developed at MIT YouTube Video
Virtual Reality
Marshall Mcluhan - The Extensions of Man - 'Automation'
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