Tangible media
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Tangible media is a field of research created by MIT professor Hiroshi Ishii, in which the link between the physical world ("atoms") and the computer world ("bits") is linked using physical objects, such as "phicons" (physical icons), and other "graspable media".
[edit] Examples of tangible media
There are two broad classes of tangible media: central media space objects, and peripheral media space objects ("ambient media").
Examples of central physical space objects might include an answering machine that uses marbles to represent each of the messages, and the user can pick up a marble to hear each message.
Another example of central physical space models include Ishii's "bottles" that play back sounds when opened. The bottles are equipped with sensors so that when you open up the bottle you hear a sound as if the sound is recorded inside the bottle.
