That just rocks. Now combine this with multi-touch surface technology... <i>Minority Report</i> here we come!<p>Seriously, another example of cool new technology that actually catches your attention and makes you wonder how they did it.<p>Between what they're doing with music over at www.celemony.com, What Jeff Han is doing (<a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65</a>), and what Trevor Blackwell is doing at Anybots, I'm really starting to get excited about technology again!<p>It sure is better than when they told me the future had arrived and it was pet food by mail.
I don’t see why you guys think it’s amazing? They have just connected all objects in video to videos timeline – you can’t really change anything but just rewind and forward the video. Amazing for me would be if by moving one object in the video the end outcome would be different...
I really want to play with this, one of the main problems that I'm having is that if you don't know which direction the object was moving, say it was going up, and you're dragging down would it do anything?<p>And in one frame you could be holding on to something whilst in the next you're holding nothing... I guess we'll have to play with it to see how the interface works.<p>I kind of get the feeling that it will be like placing the OS X dock on the right or left side of your desktop, you instinctively want to resize by moving up or down, but you have to move left or right.
That's really impressive. It puts me to mind of that image resizing tool (<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/27/i-want-this-in-photoshop-immediately/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/27/i-want-this-in-photosho...</a>) in as far as it's an exciting way to work with an old, familiar medium.<p>TechCrunch covered the former tool, whose co-founder was eventually hired away by Adobe to build it into photoshop. Wonder if MA will pick up on this one...
More information about this system can be found here: <a href="http://www.aviz.fr/dimp/" rel="nofollow">http://www.aviz.fr/dimp/</a>, including a longer video (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib_g7F6WKAA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib_g7F6WKAA</a>) and paper from CHI 2008 (<a href="http://www.aviz.fr/dimp/dimp-chi08.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.aviz.fr/dimp/dimp-chi08.pdf</a>)