HiTV

Jackie Lee the creator of Lovers Cups will also be amazing the exhibition audience with the HiTV a Context Aware Computing project out of MIT Media Lab.

When you are watching television and gets angry with the speaker because he is boring or says something wrong your only way to give affective feedback is to either switch channels or simply turn off your television. The concept of HiTV enables you to interact affectively and hence receive feedback from your television. This can be done by throwing a soft rubber ball at the television screen, which makes the boring television speaker visually distorted and screaming out loud.

The soft ball is like a graspable interface with build in sensors that can detect people interacting with it – for example whether they are throwing the ball at the screen or patting it. A signal is sent from the ball to a signal box in the television by RF. Given these interactions with the ball the user gets both visual and audio feedback. The signal box can also be connected to a network system so that you can share your emotions with other people.

Link: HiTV