Your Future 3D CAD Interface May be Soft, Cozy Memory Foam

by Josh on February 24, 2009 · View Comments

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foam-touch-interface No more slamming your face against the hard surface of your monitor in hopes of gaining the pity of your coworkers. The soft foam that sends you off to dreams of work the next day is potentially a future interface to create 3D models on.

DIS.PLAY allows you to manipulate projects objects via touch-sensitive force sensors embedded between two pieces of foam.Why foam? Because it’s the dawning of a new age where we won’t need those hard, static 2-dimensional displays of course. ‘iFoam’ 2, anyone?

check out the pics and video after the jump and the 3D modeling part at about 1:15…

impress – flexible display from Sillenet on Vimeo

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DIS. PLAY Via Engadget

Tagged as: display technology, future interfaces, pressure field displays

Dave Moore

Interesting. I'd like to have the holographic design system from Ironman.
Jeff Sweeney

...but it is still 2D-ish! So they need to put those sensors in clay, so I can hold it....

Imagine a hybrid system, you still have a keyboard, mouse & monitor for some of the easier inputs, as you model, your clay updates too. You could change the model via keyboard or clay input. Update a dimension, the clay gets bigger, pinch the clay and your model updates on the screen....
Rod_Uding

Pretty awesome research and development going on here with the flexible display. Will be very interesting to see how this pans out.
Marijn

Also cool when your pc crashes you can finally punch your screen :)
Corey W.

That will be perfect for all of the "moon surface" projects I've got coming around the corner.