arrrrgh
why is his site so sloooooowwwwwww…

Posted at 11:56 pm on Nov 12th, 2007 by thethirdmoose

I wonder if you could do this in Quartz Composer…

Posted at 12:35 am on Nov 13th, 2007 by Dean Putney

The server’s too slow/overtaxed to download either, but there’s apparently a WMV version that’s about 86% smaller:

http://www.shwetak.com/videos/bui(wmv).wmv

T’would be great if someone could mirror it.

Posted at 1:51 am on Nov 13th, 2007 by Amos

Working on DLing the avi file… will post a link of a mirror to the file when it’s complete… (can’t guarantee it’ll be much faster, but at least you’ll have a choice…)

Posted at 10:32 am on Nov 13th, 2007 by tbare

Awesome stuff!

Posted at 10:41 am on Nov 13th, 2007 by Sidhant Gupta

You can view it on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34SEmMxbNkQ

Posted at 12:06 pm on Nov 13th, 2007 by sp

Of course his site is slow…. I don’t think he expected the millions of hits he’d be barraged with once this story broke on Google. Chill out and give the guy time to upgrade his site storage.

Posted at 12:10 pm on Nov 13th, 2007 by Aki

will there be some sourcecode or a downloadable binary? i really would like to look into that thing or at least just play with it.

Posted at 4:58 pm on Nov 13th, 2007 by nex

There is a plan to release a toolkit. Stay tuned.

Posted at 5:59 pm on Nov 13th, 2007 by sp

Incredible. I’m always really interested by different means of input sensing… from the Acoustic interface with the piezoelectric elements to the LED proximity sensors…

I can see this having a huge application, if coupled with voice recognition, in making computers completely accessible for crippled individuals.

Posted at 10:50 pm on Nov 13th, 2007 by n3rrd

This can me used as an add-on to the Wii console to play wii games and such , like the eye toy idea maybe? this guy should sell this to Nintendo.

Posted at 12:01 am on Nov 14th, 2007 by Ryan

@10

the nintendo ds already uses this kinda thing.
i know pokemon does at least, other games i don’t know.

good freaking guess!

Posted at 12:42 am on Nov 14th, 2007 by joelanders

if only someone could make it blow back (no more cash for hookers ;P )

Posted at 6:39 am on Nov 14th, 2007 by no_Xkuez

you naughty little boy you

Posted at 1:07 am on Nov 15th, 2007 by Alex McCown

The new Zelda: The Phantom Hour Glass uses the microphone as a way to blow out candles in the game. This, however, is much cooler as it can bring more possibilities to the table.

Posted at 1:16 pm on Nov 15th, 2007 by Rob

lol. That is freaking awesome. 0_0

Posted at 3:28 pm on Nov 15th, 2007 by Joe

It’d be interesting if this concept could be applied to creating a sort of touch-screen mouse. A pen (or something) would emit a high-pitched noise, too loud to be heard by the human ear, when it is touched to the screen. This would be how a user clicks the mouse button. Any programmers out there, please feel free to steal this idea :P

Posted at 8:07 pm on Jan 16th, 2009 by Schnauzer