As writers, we usually use the words “come to life” metaphorically.

This time, however, we mean it because your desk is literally going to come alive with the most innovative use of movement we’ve seen in a long time.

MIT Media Lab, an up-and-coming player in the “digital information and processes” game, is designing shape-shifting furniture that does more for productivity than it looks. It’s called TRANSFORM.

According to Mashable, the prototype uses “kinetic energy and sensors to create the wave of motion on the surface”.

Check it:

How cool does it look? Almost like something out of Inception.

This isn’t the first that we’ve seen from MIT. They’ve impressed before with ‘Materiable,’ a similar technology that allowed users to manipulate it’s surface with their body movement.

And on top of that, they created ‘inFORM,’ which “uses digital information to alter the surface so your video calls can become physical and your homework can come to life”.

[source:mashable]