Monthly Archives: July 2005

Tactiva Touchpad

If you are anything like me, when I first read the headline about the Tactiva touchpad I didn’t really take notice. After all, the capacitive touch sensing principle that most touchpads use hasn’t seen any major advances for a long time. But the Tactiva doesn’t seem to use capacitive touch, but a camera instead.

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Pushpad

I completed an initial iteration of PushPad for the first-year ACE show: Eccentric Orbits. The project was a success in that it inflated, but that’s about it. I learned a lot of things from this project, mostly that sewing is hard, and that interaction design of something whose physical form I wouldn’t understand until it [...]