Mogees, an experimental interface design by Bruno Zamborlin and Norbert Schnell, creates a gestural interface out of any hard surface using a simple microphone (attached to something we never quite see in the demo video, but it’s great anyway). Um, yeah, but … huh? In Zamborlin’s words:
Through gesture recognition techniques we detect different kind of fingers-touch and associate them with different sounds. In the video we used two different audio synthesis techniques:
- physic modelling, which consists in generating the sound by simulating physical laws;
- concatenative synthesis (audio mosaicing), in which the sound of the contact microphone is associated with its closest frame present in a sound database.
Riiight. Anyway, it seems like a powerful idea and if it works, expect to see (or hear) more on Mogees.
Via FastCoDesign, TrendHunter, and various other good people.
