This lamp lets you combine all your iOS gadgets into one huge touchscreen
Collaboration across multiple devices could get a whole lot more interesting if MIT's newest device hack catches on. It's a combination of software and hardware called HuddleLamp, and it lets you turn all your touchscreen gadgets into a single workspace where users can literally toss items back and forth, and manipulate the size of photos and documents to fit across all of them. In short, it turns all your touchscreens into one massive desktop.
HuddleLamp works by combining software installed on each device with a 3D camera hidden inside a lamp that looks down on the all the devices. With the camera in place, the software can make sense of where all the devices are in relation to each other and alter each of the displays accordingly. Smaller items can be moved -- or even thrown -- from one device's display to another, while larger objects fill multiple screens and can be moved and resized at will.
HuddleLamp is an open source project and a commercial product is not currently planned. The tracking software will be publicly released by the developers on November 16, so if you're interested in creating your own super collaboration desk, you can dive into the resources available on the HuddleLamp website.
[via Ubergizmo]
