I’m pleased to see that Jamie Zigelbaum of the Tangible Media Group has posted some of the work we did at the MIT Media Lab in the summer of 2008 on G-stalt: an interface to manipulate complex data sets with the hands.

During that summer, our emphasis was on designing a flexible software architecture for easily obtaining and manipulating all types of web content within the G-stalt interface. Pleased with the resulting design, that basic architecture has since found its way back into projects like E15 and others. In many respects, much of the ideas explored in G-stalt are those we explore in E15 — finding new, flexible ways to get traditionally browser-only web content into applications altogether distinct from the browser itself.

After watching the video, I was reminded of the similarity it has to and older demonstration I made with E15 and the multi-touch capabilities of the iPhone. Still a very nice demo, in my opinion.