How Superman Might Read the NY Times [Surface]
Gizmodo — The Infractor is probably the least efficient manner in which you could read the morning paper, but it involves Fortress of Solitude-esque prisms and interactive rays of light. Quite simply, the paper has never looked better. Video demo: Running on what looks to be a Microsoft Surface, Infractor is software that represents all of the NYTimes as a streaming beam of light, with individual stories floating through the stream like fireflies. Placing an interactive prism on the table splits this beam, allowing you to assign filters like "Obama" to make the stream more relevant. ...

Remains of the Day: BitTorrent Tracker Demonoid is Back Online Edition [For What It's Worth]
Lifehacker — [image] Popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid is back online, upgrades are in the works for Google Video chat, and an interactive concept surface displays the New York Times with beams of lights and prisms. Send an email to Adam Pash, the author of this post, at tips+adam@lifehacker.com .

Infractor multitouch table app makes NY Times a new experience
Gizmo Watch — Now, this could be the way we’d read the newspapers in the near future, or are e-book readers or good old paper better? Come, you take a pick, but do read this to decide. Designed by a group of students af the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, the Infractor is an interactive and artistic software application that is based on the article database of the New York Times i.e. information from 1985 to the present. Being an interactive application, it is developed basically for a multitouch table; wherein more than one person can work together at the same application. The Infractor is interactive rays of light and its ...

Infractor is an innovative way of research
Coolest Gadgets — This next device is odd, to say the least, but I can see how it would come in handy. There is a video of it after the jump if you want to see it in action, but it won’t make sense without a little bit of explanation. Here’s how it works. You begin with a “light source” that is really a database of some information, like the New York Times, for example. This source is placed on a table that is probably best described as a Microsoft Surface (but isn’t). This source shines a light with visible particles that essentially contains all the information of on that database. From there, the user can physically place a ...