... bent downwards, the bones appear to protrude while the soft tissue recedes - see also video. What at first glance looks like science fiction is the result of the 'Flexpad' research project. It was developed under the direction of Jürgen Steimle from the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken in cooperation with the Christians-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. "In everyday life, we deform objects intuitively and in many different ways. We bend book pages, squeeze balls, fold paper or model clay," explains Steimle - "by projecting control elements onto tangible, deformable objects, we can control computers and other technical devices more easily and better." To make his project work in the digital world, ...