Check out this clip about a table or wall surface that is a computer monitor... and touch-screen interface. Very cool.
It allows for the typical touch-screen functionality, but with the ability to merge files more readily, and it even interacts with other devices. For example, you could rest a camera right on the flat surface, and extract files from it and add files to it by dragging and dropping.
This kind of visibility and tactility is very important for some people. Naturally, I'm thinking of applications in a collaborative meeting setting. Imagine people working with the information on a screen rather than just reading it on a PowerPoint slide as someone dictates. People could really be operating with the literal big picture, and manipulating it and co-creating a visual model with the depth of files and links. Sounds great to me.
Similar things are happening at Autodesk. Autodesk fellow, innovation authority, Viz Biz author (coming soon, hopefully), visualization master, and one of the more interesting guys I've met; Tom Wujec, displays the Touch Wall here.
Collaborative technologies won't be complete until they enable powerful visual and tactile interface options. Any examples of this happening effectively, augmented by cool technology or not?
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