Media clips: Implementation of an intuitive media linker

This paper introduces Media Clips, a novel platform that merges technology and methods ranging from near field communications (NFC) to tangible user interfaces (TUI). Media Clips will enrich the user´s end experience and improve the ease of use in media data handling. Media Clips are compact, and easily manufactured. They are low cost devices with acceleration sensors and displays, while also utilizing near field communication. They can collect, transfer and share media data through intuitive user interaction by using NFC and server-client network systems. They can also merge several types of media data by shaking Media Clips together, which enables the users to feel like they are physically handling virtual media. With the server-client network solution, Media Clips transfer and store only the tag information of media data, which are very small in size. This method significantly reduces the media delivery times, compared to the traditional way of transferring the full size of the data. The architecture of Media Clips, application usage examples and its implementation results will be outlined.