Image: © 2012 Tangible Media Group / MIT Media Lab (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Image: © 2012 Tangible Media Group / MIT Media Lab (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

The MIT Media Lab is reimagining the future of computing, and its vision takes another step toward merging the physical with the virtual.

inFORM, developed at the Media Lab, is a surface of 900 pegs that move dynamically based on hand motions. Researchers believe this technology could replace the graphical user interface (GUI) of today’s computers with a tactile user interface (TUI), giving physical form to digital information.

Take a look at inFORM in action:

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