Entries Tagged as 'Interface'

Friday, November 7th, 2008

iPhone as Serious Musical Instrument?

There have been a few iPhone apps that suggest where things are heading, not necessarily with the iPhone as musical instrument (it is still a small toy) but with musical instruments of the future. The multi touch, inertia driven interface at larger scale is going to be very interesting as well as the proximity and [...]

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Google’s own web browser; World meet Chrome!

Google is developing its own web browser based on the open source framework webkit engine, which is also used by Apple for its Safari web browser and interconnecting applications such as mail, dashboard and itunes.
The browser called Chrome (Page not available to the public yet as of 02/09/08) has been built with speed, security and [...]

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

The Avatars Are Taking Over The Asylum - Layered Social Virtual Worlds

ORIGINALLY POSTED BY GARY ON PERSONALIZEMEDIA
Fed up with your avatar having to live inside a wall-garden world? Want to bring it out into the wider web to play? Well it seems a revolution is at hand, early days and a few notable services listed below, but keep your eyes peeled as virtual characters start to [...]

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

the rise and rise of the zoomable…

Twice this week I’ve stumbled across interfaces which I’ve found irresistible and blog-worthy. The first is PicLens (not brand new this week - but certainly within living memory ie: several months). The second is the Zoomii interface for browsing Amazon books.
PicLens is a Firefox 3.0 plugin which allows you to navigate through sites such as [...]

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

MEFCON 2008 - What a stupid question to ask?

Courtesy of Michael Ball:
“Is there a market for feature-length films on the mobile phone?” I asked Tomas Gewecke, new President of Digital Distribution for Warner Bros., at the US Mobile Entertainment Forum Conference MEFCON last week.
You’d think, by the audience reaction, that I just confessed to running over his dog.
Warner cut a deal recently with [...]

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Multi-touch Open Source dev kits!

It would seem that multi-touch interfaces are the new black. In any case - they’re really really popular. They’re popping up like mushrooms all over the place with companies like Microsoft and Apple in a mad race to get devices/concepts to market. Ken Han introduced the genius of his multi-touch interfaces to a rapt [...]

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Apple actions location based mobile content patent

A much publicised patent application published in December 2007 revealed that Apple had explored allowing handheld owners (such as the iPhone) to place orders from local stores. The system would, for example, allow customers to order a drink with the press of a button on their iPhone which would then notify them when their order [...]

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Virtual World bursts into Mobile World

Following on from the watercooler post last week on Second Life running on a Samsung phone it is interesting how in the last month we have virtual worlds appearing on mobile devices at every turn - iPhone etc: below. Will May 08 be known as the month Web 3.0 (the real time, social virtual world [...]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Cross Media Social Network Film Marketing …the Spongecell way..

An interesting video with the creators of the new pilot web site from Carnegie Mellon University, called Spongecell. Spongecell. brings together the interactivity of social networking to product marketing and promotion campaigns. An interesting example was the Yari Film Group in the USA..
Yari Film Group sees 40% opt-in
“We wanted to promote our movie “Final Season” [...]

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Three weeks later the body as game interface

I bought a Vuzix VR920 (3D slick glasses) the other day and can now experience World of Warcraft and Second Life amongst hundreds of other virtual worlds in 3D at 1024 resolution. This has an in built 3 axis gyro type control - so as you move your head the view changes naturally - what [...]

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Standing between revolutions and everyday life…

“Design and the Elastic Mind” is a major exhibition currently presented by MoMA till May 12 2008. The title of the exhibition emerges from the assertion that while “adaptability” is hard-wired into human intelligence, coping with the recent and dramatic changes in our experience of “time, space, matter and identity” requires something stronger - [...]

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

The Richest Mobile Platform Ever?

We have been using our iPhones to do some strange things here at LAMP over the past months. Most of the coolest apps come from the very active community of developers already delivering some great apps via the installer application that runs on unlocked iPhones. Some of us are remarkably running PlayStation 1, Nintendo Entertainment [...]

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

a beautiful collision > code + visualisation - the new breed of designers

Interesting to see a number of “design” companies relying heavily (but poetically and thoughtfully), on code to generate visualisation work these days. I know it’s nothing new, but I am genuinely excited by the possibilities inherent when really good information design, generates really good visual design generated by really good code. People are probably familiar [...]

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Interactive Widgets for Apple TV..

MacNN reports on a number of new patents from Apple, one of which involves an interesting use of “widgets” alongside streaming video that would allow for more interactivity.
The August 2006 filing introduces the possbility of incorporating Dashboard-like Widgets alongside video content in the Apple TV interface. The Widgets could be triggered by the video itself [...]

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Clinton vs. Obama - PC vs. Mac?

Further to Peter G’s post re. predicting wins via the blogosphere for McCain and Obama in Super Tuesday, I thought I’d contribute this. The NY Times is posing the question “Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?” You can probably guess which OS each of them has been assigned. More important, however, is the [...]