Their hands-on showcases the Zune interface rather nicely.
The Facebook-owned photo sharing app was one of the pieces of software that Apple had running on demo units at Monday's hands on showcase, and it provides a full image feed for casual browsing without a need to pull your phone out of your pocket.
The second is a hands-on educational alcove showcasing Björk's custom instruments and music apps, which were made for her 2011 album, "Biophilia". That groundbreaking work was the first album to be released as a series of interactive apps that stitched together aspects of musicology with science and nature to some academic effect.
"This exhibition was specifically designed to showcase diversity in hands-on image-making and to demonstrate both the range and accessibility of abstract art," said Katharine Dufault, the show's curator and a member of the center's gallery committee.
THE Wired Store is a temporary hands-on gallery curated by the editors of Wired magazine to showcase new electronics and gaming and home goods.
Lead singer Rivers Cuomo and the rest of the gang are taking a hands-on approach to programming, choosing a variety of bands to showcase their interests in advance of the release of new album 'Raditude', out at the end of this month.
There will be a live stream on YouTube, but since the event will likely showcase phones and tablets, the lack of hands-on time will be frustrating.
The $30,000 project, designed and built by architecture students at the University of Pennsylvania, was sponsored by the Foundation for Art, Architecture, Research and Making, which is in Philadelphia and which showcases unconventional uses of architecture while giving students hands-on experience.
Also on view at the benefit, where even the divers wore black tie: a 350,000-gallon tropical reef habitat showcasing zebra sharks and puffer fish, and a hands-on tide-pool discovery lab filled with sea stars and urchins.
In addition to the traditional showcase 'Open Day' for pre-university students, outreach staff are facilitating hands-on workshops, problem-solving seminars, and research 'tasters' for a far wider audience.
Students have publishing parties every month to showcase their writing, textbooks have been de-emphasized in favor of hands-on learning and every classroom has an interactive projection system.
