MIT’s Dynamic Shape Display is Like a Sandbox in California that You Can Manipulate from New York

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Those of you who’ve seen The Wolverine, remember that crazy self-adjusting gurney thing that Master Yashida was lying on? That might not be as far off a piece of technology as you’d think. A team of researchers at MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group have created this mind-blowing Dynamic Shape Display with a similar vertical-pixel-grid set-up:

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Called inFORM, the system provides a fascinating way for one party to physically manipulate objects at the other’s location. It has to be seen in action to be believed:

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