TRANSFORM - Amazing Technology Invented By MIT

[@hermaeus_jackson]

Be amazed as your desk literally launches your laptop off whenever you get a text.

[@Werhakon]

Into your face xD

[@sagiksp4979]

MEDIC

[@ItsSpice]

it doesnt effect parts already elevated

[@OrangeC7]

TheMinerFromHell omg imagine if they forgot to add that in development... "Alright, seems good to go!" "Ok, let's set things up.. mhmm... ok." "Now, I'll send you a text..." _WHOOSH_ *POW* "..."

[@shard7572]

lol

[@Spee2k12]

Makes spilling coffee on your table expensive

[@roselynmaximo]

big lol you need 1k likes

[@Spee2k12]

@@roselynmaximo haha, can barely remember watching this now. Thanks! lol

[@marcusaplin71]

Unless it rounds up the split coffee like cowboys herding their stock and the table then pours the spill back into the cup

[@Execution_matters]

This feels so alive, I loved it. Looking from a human-centered design perspective the interactiveness of this product will always get you engaged in the activity you perform. But just imagine a scenario after this, getting back to a normal table. 😆😅

[@DrAvocadoChickenMC]

imagine the ground beibg made of these things and we can snap our fingers and a couch will apear we can sit in the couch and get a masaage

[@DrAvocadoChickenMC]

massage

[@vikanikitina7801]

OML YES

[@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda]

+DrAvocadoChicken could be a problem, if you have programmed it to create a couch, when it hears the snap of someone's fingers, and a friend visits, who didn't know of that programming, and (s)he clicks their fingers, and up pops a couch, and flings them in the pot of boiling water nearby, ... or the new 999" TV, and smashes it, and hurts them!! Just because they were standing in the wrong spot!! You may say, the computer would know where they were standing, but, not everything is perfect, it may miscalculate! Or you may have forgotten to set the default uprising speed from 'very fast' to 'slow' !!

[@DrAvocadoChickenMC]

Joshua Hrouda well it doesn't have to be a click does it. you can just say a code word or "activate couch"

[@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda]

Yeah, you're right, but I just went with what you put down, and extrapolated further. You could still do it as a prank, by purposely telling the computer to create a couch, and KNOWING your friend is standing in the RIGHT spot to get flung!! hahahaha

[@abigguitar]

1:11 It even collects the chips when the other person wins. LOL

[@markreef1]

This invention is simply amazing. Imagine those between 20-30 years will become small white squares, million, colored. While sitting at home will have the chance to take advantage of the three-dimensionality to the other side of the world. This is the future !!!!

[@jtitum2200]

I can't wait for this to be lined in my house in the future😊

[@colsong6363]

I feel that this is the future of technology. When TVs were first invented, they had large blurry pixels, like these large rectangles. In the future I hope that this becomes the new TV, desk, computer, and really everything.

[@OrangeC7]

yeah I just hope that it doesn't get so thin it can be use as a murder weapon xD

[@barmiro]

it's a great start, but for me to buy one of this things, several improvements would need to be made: 1. increase the piston density by 2-3 orders of magnitude 2. make the whole thing dead silent 3. NO MAINTENANCE REQUIRED. As is, it would need a lot of maintenance.

[@ThatxOtherxDude]

barmiro Imagine if they made each one the size of a pixel with leds and touch pads. You could have a 1920-1080 moniter thats touch and can change shape, FUTURE HERE I COME!

[@lefabe3867]

+That Other Dude yeah, fiberglass stripes could be a good point to start with.

[@MrGoatflakes]

+Le Fabe yeah just thinking that ;p make it out of say acrylic that had some frosting at the ends and that could be a fibre optic element as well as the piston :)

[@MrGoatflakes]

+Le Fabe actually, you could have the sides of the pistons with displays on them as well as the top, at the cost of piston resolution.

[@Sourcecode01]

+barmiro Exactly my thoughts

[@UrbusGurbus]

Imagine the inconvenience of spilling something sticky like soda in it.

[@JorgeGamaliel]

Awesome! There are a lot of very interesting applications. Tangible digital communication. In fact we can transmit emotions .

[@zix2421]

Oh my, it looks so cool, future is here! I’d buy it

[@umnikos]

The best desk in the world... ever... i'm without words... so amazing... revolutionary... that is like a hologram, but it's interacting with the world in physical way...

[@charlesn8933]

I cant believe no one is bothered that the blocks are not completely flat with one another.

[@mikune01]

After almost 10 years, this still feels way too futuristic

[@BFDudes]

Playing YuGiOh would be way more interesting with a table made of this, maybe some holograms aswell.

[@BCO4progress]

That makes a great on line chiropractic mattress. Also Wheel chair seats cushion☺

[@Newton_animation]

Wow Mit students seriously. Got amazing innovative ideas

[@ulysses_grant]

The TRANSFORM should have written "MIT" in the end of the video. Thank you MIT for doing such amazing projects.

[@haiperbus]

PLZ release this to the public!

[@cmcteq]

this is absolutely incredible

[@franjaengarcia6091]

this will definetly put a finish to the hangry in the world

[@abbacab77]

lmao

[@art-oq1pi]

This is like 8 bit video games or old animation And it will soon become even better

[@samuelk.6574]

Wow! Maybe this is the most wonderful thing I've seen.

[@Gustavo-ok7jw]

Oh I can't wait to have that thousand actuators deafening noise at home.

[@LeetMath]

would be a cool thing to have in museums maybe

[@mikans_sweetss]

Wow this is great it is good at seeing the people

[@k9man163]

it makes my ocd go off that the cubes are not on the same level

[@Scented_Shadow]

You don't have OCD.

[@mattmaillet1186]

he means OCPD

[@zeynepkocadag7181]

I can't believe that i haven't saw this before. Although it was 8 years ago. How can i learn more abaout it and is there it's new or improved version?

[@zeynepkocadag7181]

@@jrjrdjndjdk Sounds great. Is there any address that I can check out?

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

I can imagine spilling my friend's drink by calling his phone while they're both on this table. TRULY, THIS IS THE FUTURE OF TROLLING!

[@koreboredom4302]

they should really make the tip silicone or something.

[@SonnySkye]

That constant clacking sound would do my head in.

[@thetsarofall8666]

take this, make it bigger, install it into the floor(with obvious upgrades) and boom, you have and adaptive floor that can spring up furniture whenever needed.

[@AndreiASMR]

This is more like a vacuum tube in the grand scheme of things, a primitive building block, and a great start. I have no doubt that in fifty years the successors of this technology will be integrated into every day life.

[@mota940]

isso é incrivel (this is amazing)

[@anselmschueler]

At 0:58 and later, you can still see part of the line from the phone to the bubble even though the bubble is gone.

[@Taipan_Pete]

This makes me cry, i want one in my house so bad.

[@mgpstudios5388]

Wonderful, I wish immediately!

[@mudra12]

Transform could make a great massage table synced with meridan lines in the body, with sensors to activate chi flow.

[@RyanMakesLight]

I love the gaffers tape as a "random haousehold object"

[@brickrage4208]

Now all you need is the funds to this on a really big scale!

[@MaZe741]

Sounds like an updating timetable at a trainstation

[@xenvious]

I want that. That looks awesome.

[@MrGrilledcheeseits]

With proper backing and a few tweaks this could be a world changer.

[@MegaMineguys]

this is gonna be really useful once they step things up

[@semphony100]

this needs to be taken to the next level Finer tubes , more smooth edges, covering material elastic enough to expand, thus providing a more flex user friendly interface with real application potential

[@biz_markie9189]

Can we do this with pins? Like those "pin art" toys where you put your hand, or face, or whatever you like against the pins on the toy and the shape shows up on the other side in the pins? It would allow more precision, and more detail. I can imagine maybe having a virtual office meeting where you're showing off a 3D model of a concept car or something using those if you can't be there in person. This would put us more towards a realistic 3D experience.

[@ANT-jm4qx]

Biz_Markie91 Yes, but it's too expensive.

[@ClevererAlonso1]

It´s incredible, congratulations for this project

[@gawni1612]

Okay it had me at the poke scene.

[@Rogueshiva]

u need to make a kickstarter to make a giant room with this and the power to lift up a person

[@민승규-z9n]

i can see the future.. so amazing

[@giuseppelima1751]

Best DnD table ever

[@HarryLin]

Wow, I'm blown away

[@IHLWonk]

Make the blocks smaller, and they can make even better shapes and uses... like pixels on a screen, sharper movements.

[@KaizCh]

Now in Offices :"WHO IS MAKING THAT LOUD TYPING SOUND"

[@josephdittrich4634]

Next time I need a ball moved to the other side of my desk and I have several million dollars to spare I'll let MIT know.

[@Rezduck_]

this is amazing, now to just make the cubes smaller and make it across the entire table :D

[@TheOnedose]

it's look like Antichamber... very nice! ;-)

[@eshanaalam8785]

Mind blowing invention

[@rileyzook-moran4012]

The future is now... And to people saying this is pointless, sure but it's also a prototype. It will evolve over time becoming better and better. That's how technology works.

[@wowchallenge261]

Really so nice video amazing yaar

[@keefygee55]

Really beautifully enhanced dot matrix printer heads. By 2020 it will be available in Ikea in the Art department. I admire the work and artistic attributes but to me it is just a computerised pin art frame. with sensory inputs and outputs.

[@TairnKA]

My first thought, other than Kewl was could it propel the ball accurately over the spaces between the articulated panels, how far of a gap and how fast?

[@BunniBuu]

By thinking of this product as furniture, it loses a LOT of its practicality and improvement. Think of its uses as a projection for 3d models that you can physically manipulate. You could easily program infrastructure. If the pins were smaller and there were way more of them, it could be totally used for so much more. Imagine being able to perfectly map a location in physical form. Imagine being able to replicate a specific patient for a hospital procedure. Imagine programming physical puzzles for games. Imagine planning out an entire D&D sequence on one of these (including maps, enemies, etc). Since all that would be required is some programming, you'd never need to buy miniatures again. You just need one 3d model... and you can have that model move!! You could make a visual movie with the thing. You could make physical sculptures. If they were strong enough, imagine a chair made of these. It could be programmed to change to exactly the size of who is sitting in it and even give a massage! Theoretically, if it was made cheap enough, it could be used for certain industrial purposes, but it would be god damn hard to maintain and probably not worth it. If you think of this product as "just the beginning of something larger", it could go very, very far. (Of course, in a world where you have to actually make the money from the product before you can improve it, that's never going to happen... but it's nice to imagine)

[@seanli7565]

stfu

[@abelpanji7293]

It’s just like the micro bots from big hero 6

[@Neptoid]

more blocks< = more fun

[@Likely_Alucard]

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

[@noxabellus]

I have an idea how to do this without using pnuematics, tell me if I'm crazy or not: Use a small servo motor for each grid cell, and have it drive a screw shaft, with a threaded nut in the center of the cube. It's square neighbors will keep it from spinning with the shaft, so it will travel upwards and downwards

[@noxabellus]

Lol oh...yep its possible...turned out I just invented the traveling nut linear actuator. Only someone beat me to it, probably a hundred years ago or something

[@jamess7333]

Still though, its nice to know you're AT LEAST as intuitive as some mostly unknown century old inventor. :)

[@gabrielpoupou1479]

I just invented a new recipe....

[@Gravity360]

produce this on a large scale, roomsize. Remove the audible noise and add vr ;) The room's physical layout could dynamically change based on the scene the user is in.

[@terrancepritchett1895]

This project is really amazing. was thinking of a way to transport the four basic elements through this technology for the usage of so many things like a stove. It would be awesome to put a sensor system combined with magnetic force fields within this system to prevent violence, diseases, and catastrophic events around the world. We are going to be able to trans port medicines through it for all species. We can make this into a suit to be able to detect a adjust to conditions on other planets.

[@amazingcato5315]

I see the replicator tech is coming along nicely.

[@hangitstrips3681]

Very COOL!

[@rachellemieux2306]

If somehow this could become a tv screen for 3D tv...it would be amazing

[@jho20-22]

It can

[@hoduchoang]

Humans are amazing!!!

[@Evan420]

So how many volts does this thing take? Really awesome though, this should really be in stores

[@Evan420]

+EvanPlayzMC Also, what's the song at the beginning?

[@99cseni]

Wow that's amazing

[@JordanMitschelen]

This is so cool!

[@tomsir3193]

It's a brilliant idea, though it could be improved by increasing the density of pistons. Almost like increasing the resolution of a screen, I believe this would make the whole system more aesthetically pleasing. I would also get rid of that annoying clicky noise.

[@andreadiotallevi5780]

Super inspiring!

[@Official_hyexnxhx]

WOW IS AMAZING END IS WORLD FUTER SEE

[@commandernightstrike]

that is so cool!!!

[@Mekazas]

Amazing and beautiful! I wonder what type of actuators are in use?

[@masterpbk]

Incredible

[@NotLegato]

i am just looking forward to when someone manages to build a system like this that has FAR more resolution, and can render objects in 3d space without needing a single plane to work off of.

[@hiddeninternets5894]

Any update yet? Has anyone done it?🤠

[@proudeden3504]

LET ME BUY IT!!!!!

[@nhathuy_nguyen]

tuyệt vời quả là công nghệ của tương lai

[@linux750]

cool. now they need to make a version of this that is mobile. Like the Golem from Bayonetta 1.

[@vladimirsuvajac1807]

Love it, no more annoying "honey pass the salt" or "pass the salad" , your table can do it for u

[@jobin2649]

Perfect sync

[@glenthemann]

i keep waiting for the LA Beast to pop out... what are the odds an mit vid uses the same free audio loop?

[@MrPhaphal]

where is baymax

[@neXus200xx]

Great thing. Only if cuboids we smaller in H and V depth and tips were a bit sperical (no sharp edges). Also, cuboids and most of machine could be skinned with some damping like substance but with small or no friction.

[@towatchutube123]

wow, just wow.

[@oblipsmainchannel4158]

And this was 2 years ago?! Two?!?!?!? Wow,technology has advanced!

[@serhend3]

good tech if added motional items and more small particles

[@keemybrzee8442]

I might get emotionally attached to my floor

[@neguishegrate5032]

In MIT the floor move you.

[@goidibarrabas]

1:35 No man, is your ex... don't answer!!!

[@nvmPratyush]

Underrated comment

[@jamesmcpatterson2733]

Cool stuff

[@kaimanagalaxy8080]

What if they used smaller things like the pin impression toy? That would make it so much smoother and better!!!

[@VinlockGG]

just needs to have higher resolution to it