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It seems that the new direction of HCI (human computer interaction) is to HIDE computers and merge monitors with interactive surfaces (desks, tables, blackboards, walls and so on).

This is a music generator (it’s better say “wave generator”) that shows great interface mode: objects on the table are scanned and interact with the (hidden) system that feedbacks with lights and sounds.

Here you are the really great movies of reactable! | here the page of the project

The reactable, is a state-of-the-art multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artefacts on the table surface and constructing different audio topologies in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.

(via dr0p.net)