Kinetic Surfaces - Displays and surfaces that track and move real objects placed onto them (2001-2022)
- see https://youtu.be/kA-q6XO5mfg , https://youtu.be/e8KzBefac_Y , https://youtu.be/e8TS2fRVYYE , https://youtu.be/Q2kijbcrmD0
Flip-dot actuators and tangible displays - Ultra thin and light-weight digital screen technology (2009-2021)
Included in a UK Government showcase of the best of UK Digital Creativity (2015)
- see https://youtu.be/2FNNlfa_a_A , https://youtu.be/fBGfX9G0e7A
Multitouch 3D display screens and the Fentix Cube - Multitouch, motion sensitive, and modular tangible interfaces - cubes, pixels, and other objects (2007-2010)
- see https://youtu.be/V4A_wfaScy4 , https://youtu.be/PJyJHek2laQ , https://youtu.be/fhSiSFDaFTA
Digital fashion and couture electronics - Collaboration with designer Alexander McQueen for his autumn/winter 2004 couture runway show in Paris
- see https://youtu.be/nYxgWYFZn9Q
Multitouch Surfaces - Pioneering high-speed multi-touch and multi-object tracking touchscreens and surfaces (2001-2004)
- see https://youtu.be/u5_RNA6eNIo , https://youtu.be/0cOx7fyNULQ , https://youtu.be/7yXJMt4KKrM
Internet-based virtual meeting platform - Early 'Zoom-like' multimedia conferencing system with shared audio, video, and whiteboards (1992-1993)
Interviews, writing, external links:
Andrew has worked in interface research for more than three decades - independently inventing and building new kinds of tactile user interfaces, smart objects, smartwatches, synthesisers, actuators, and knowledge management systems. As the inventor of early (i.e. pre-iPhone) multi-touch touchscreen technologies, he acted as an expert witness in the iPhone-related patent dispute between Apple and Samsung.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/06/andrew_fentem_on_ai/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/20/andrew_fentem_interview/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/05/13/dominic-cummings-research-baby-likely-crushed-blob/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2523680/How-Britain-iPhone-technology-Apple-Quango-handed-advantage-competition.html
http://www.gizmodo.com/338502/magic-cube-heralds-the-future-of-gaming-and-human-interfaces
https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/future-gaming-multi-touch-platform
http://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/low-cost-actuators-could-work-with-many-materials
Showcase of UK Digital Creativity - UK Government Digital Catapult
http://www.kinetica-museum.org/artists/artist-profiles/andrew-fentem.html
'Hacking for Dummies' won't cut it, minister - Andrew Fentem, Financial Times
My savings, not government, funded multitouch research - Andrew Fentem, Financial Times
'Obsolete' skills can come back into vogue - Andrew Fentem, Financial Times
US should concentrate on inventing technologies - Andrew Fentem, Financial Times
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Evolving-spatial-representations-to-support-and-the-Fentem-Dumas/38d399c17d192462c5cd901496e984ce2418cd7f
Evolving spatial representations to support innovation and the communication of strategic knowledge - Andrew Fentem, Knowledge-Based Systems journal (1998)
Interacting with Multi-media, Multi-user Systems: Observations on Multi-Media Conferencing Tools - Andrew Fentem and Angela Sasse, ECCE-7 European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (1994)
Andrew Fentem YouTube Channel
Touch cube points to future toys - BBC News
Contact:
Phone: +44 7840 252115
Email: flickpixels@gmail.com
Twitter: @andrewfentem
