A little while back SuperTouch created a custom made interactive multi-touchscreen for The Mill that switches from frosted glass to completely transparent revealing a hologram effect of visualizations on the screen. Check out some of the photos of this sweet setup.

The pretty interactive graphics are thanks to Andrew Bell of LibCinder.org & TheMill.com.

Also since I forgot to post some of the work I did while at SuperTouch, here is a little bit of that action.

Here is a Kinect based 3d cover flow showing a few videos being moved around with simple gestures as well as controlling the audio volume based on how far away someone is from the screen. You can also turn on and off a Mooninite and switch the glass window/interface from clear to frosted with gesture. You can also see an iPad controlling the 3d interface as well. 

This is a simple interactive cube. Each side corresponds to a different demo and all you have to do is rotate it to switch demos in real-time...it's also sitting on one of SuperTouch's large multi-touchscreen tables...which is why it's all lit up from below.

Another multitouch table for GE this time in all white.

Here is a motion sensing touchscreen that detected when people walked by and would invite them to interact with the screen.

Alpay / SuperTouch's famous Interactive Mirror which is not only a touchscreen but also does face and body tracking. These things are a beast to build and install...but man are they REALLY cool when you see them in person.

Here is a photo of some virtual dressing room software I wrote with Justin for the Interactive Mirror.

There are a number of other projects, builds and installs like the touchscreen/scanner which controlled a robotic projector and some yet to be released stuff on the horizon. I'll get to posting as they go public.

I gotta give up some respect for what Miral, Alan and the iLuminate team have done since the rough prototype I gave them over a year ago. Their EL Wire and LED suits have now been seen on the Black Eyed Peas, Chris Brown during the BET Awards, Christina Aguilera, America's Got Talent, Death Cab for Cutie and more.

Thanks Popular Science! Can't wait to see it in print! If you are interested in building your own tank, feel free to check out my previous post with all the source code needed.

Super simple little app I made to play a prank on a co-worker, took all of about 10 minutes to make...if that, it's only 18 lines of code, works only on a mac. Enjoy.

If you don't know what a mooninite is... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare

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Source Code in Processing:

import com.sun.awt.AWTUtilities;
PImage mooninite;
void setup(){
  size(screen.width, screen.height);
  frame.removeNotify();
  frame.setUndecorated(true);
  AWTUtilities.setWindowOpaque(frame, false);
  mooninite = loadImage("mooninite.png");
  imageMode(CENTER);
}
void update(){
}
void draw(){
  loadPixels();
  for ( int i = 0 ; i < pixels.length ; i++ ) pixels[i] = 0;
  updatePixels();
  image(mooninite, mouseX, mouseY, 50,50);
}

Thanks Engadget!

Well, here is what we were working on. SHOCKINGLY SIMILAR.

So are they spying on me...I don't know. Maybe Microsoft is getting back at me for all my smart ass comments I made as a teenager at their software releases in Seattle. In reality Microsoft is probably just taking the same logical steps as me.

Here is a little sampler. Feel free to contact me about the source, I'm really sorry everything is so sloppy, I'm working to fix things.
Edit: updated...but not the source. changing things rapidly.

For those who want to check out some photos...there are literally only 2 slides with text. Email me if you have any questions.

Here are the slides.

I'm working for SuperTouch / Interference Inc now and it's a bit of amazing. Tore open an LCD screen today, made a foam-core box, reassembled all the electronics inside of the box, added a bit of vellum for a diffuser behind the transparent LCD and moved the backlight to the bottom of the box. I am preparing to create a multi-touch screen out of the box/lcd.

Really early prototype made out of foamcore....also I miss my mohawk and IR blocking shades.

Here are the wireframes of the cases, they were all lasercut over at the AlphaOneLabs hackerspace in Brooklyn and assembled by hand using acrylic weld.

Here is one of the 6 laser cut cases that I created before any electronics, speakers, cameras or lights were put in.

Again the inside of the case before any electronics were put in. You can see the holes for the high powered luxeon led lights were a real snug fit.

Bringing out the big guns for testing. this is  DL3 robotic projector...google it, it's the hotness.

In order to control this beast I had to write a little program that checked commands coming from a flash app and send out midi commands to the control panel (seen in the back left) which in turn would send commands to the robotic projector.

A few of the electronics in place. IR camera, luxeon lights, lcd power board on the far wall, backlight on the bottom, video circuit with a reaaally fragile flat cable ready to be plugged into the lcd screen.

Justin assembling some of the IR led frames.

Here is an early test to make sure our touches were going to be good enough with such a low profile using such a wide angle camera.

Another early test.

After a LOT of changes and revisions from the client, the client's client and whatnot...it didn't turn out quite as we had envisioned it, but it was really fun to build and I was able to learn a lot about creating one off prototypes.

Huge thanks to Alpay Kasal, Sam Ewen, Justin and Seth Sandler for all the help and support on this crazy project.