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By Jinha Lee

REACH INTO THE COMPUTER AND GRAB THE PIXEL

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5 Discuss:

a) What would you change about your life if you lost the sense of touch?

b) What advancements in technology help you realize the full use of your senses?

Jinha Lee is an interface designer, engineer, and researcher working at the boundary of the physical and digital world. A 2013 TED Fellow, he is exploring ways to harness humans' innate kinesthetic and sensory skills to impact the way we interact with the world of digital data.

For additional information about the presenter go to http://www.ted.com/speakers/jinha_lee.html

Jinha Lee works at the boundary of the physical and digital world. The TED Fellow, designer and engineer is exploring ways to weave digital information into physical space.

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While watching:

Fill in the gaps:

a) And this gap has become shorter, shorter, and even shorter, and now this gap is shortened down to less than a millimeter, the thickness of a _____, and the power of computing has become _____ to everyone.

b) First, I created this tool which ______ the digital space, so when you press it hard on the screen, it ______ its physical body into pixels.

c) By combining a ______ and ______ for sensing your fingers and face, now you can lift up your hands from the keyboard and reach inside this 3D space and grab pixels with your bare hands.

d) Then you can ______ this book while highlighting the lines, words on the virtual touch pad below each ______ . Architects can stretch or ______ the models with their two hands directly.

e) This is a view that you get from ______ or ______ display when the system understands the geometry of your body.

f) What we did was essentially canceling gravity and controlling the movement by combining magnetic ______ and mechanical actuation and ______ technologies.

After watching:

1 Match the words in A with the words in B:

2 Answer the questions:

a) How can designers, surgeons and architects use the digital space in their work?

b) What did Jinha Lee and Cati Boulanger do to show that they can reach inside and interact with the digital information using the full dexterity of your hands?

c) What did Jinha Lee with Hiroshi Ishii and Rehmi Post create at MIT Media Lab?

d) Can students use their invention as a tool and how?

3 Decide if the statements are true or false:

a) The gap between our physical world and the world in the screen is shortened down to less than a millimeter.

b) Surgeons can practice on living organs underneath the touch-screen glass.

c) Jinha Lee proves that the digital world cannot understand the geometry of people’s body.

d) If to combine a transparent display and depth cameras for sensing your fingers and face, you can reach inside 3D space and grab pixels with your bare hands.

e) Computers can move objects to other places by combining magnetic levitation and mechanical actuation.

f) Liberating the object from constraints of time and space means that human motions can be recorded and played back and left permanently in the physical world.

g) Students can use only computer screens or textbooks to learn about planetary motion and physics.