Interesting Products

I was leafing through the UCSB MAT program website and checking out some of the students' work there, and randomly clicked on Mengyu Chen’s website. He mostly seems to do things with VR and AR, but I really loved some of his work on “Objects”, particularly the “Misanthropist”. https://www.mengyuchen.com/object/Misanthropist It’s a stool that runs away from you. The video really helps to illustrate it. It’s not perfect, but I think it a brilliant project....

The GergoPlex is (I think) the keyboard I would most like to try using. It looks like this: It’s not a stenography keyboard (although if you peruse the rest of the g Heavy Industries website you’ll find the Georgi which is), but it is ortholinear and split in half, and I think I would like it a lot. I’m really just adding it here so that I can find it again – it’s sold out at the moment – and because I love the design of it so much more than I have of any keyboard I’ve ever seen (most of which are, in my opinion, hideous)....