By Bradley Hebdon
It’s the question on everyone’s lips these days. Is the Palm Pre going to make an impact large enough to save both Palm and Sprint? We shall see how this plays out once the anticipated savior descends to earth on June 6, 2009 AD. But launching alone will not a savior make. Rather, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘User Interface’
June 4, 2009
Designing the Palm Pre: An interview with Michelle Koh
April 27, 2009
VisionAire Multi-touch Holograms
Obscura Digital has teamed their special multi-touch software with the Musion Eyeliner Hologram Projection System to produce an amazing interactive tool for presenters to use whereby they can manipulate 3-D holographic images in the air. Aptly called VisionAire, the single or multiple users can shrink, zoom and turn the images by [...]
March 12, 2009
Nintendo Wii 2.0: A mind-controlled console
Moving away from sloppy remotes, Nintendo Wii is entering the brainwave era with a slick mind-controlled console. At least this is the thrilling desire of hi-tech dreamers over at T3 Magazine who want to see jaws dropping and brain cells working their way through gaming.
The ground-breaking concept, part of the magazine’s future tech feature, introduces [...]
March 1, 2009
Text-to-Voice Wand: The “Voice Stick”
The ‘Voice Stick’ concept enters to revolutionize the life of the visually impaired and offer a breath of fresh high-tech air to script recognition.
Designed by Sung Woo Park, the cutting-edge device is a portable text scanning tool, utilizing the OCR function to identify text and convert this information into voice. This advanced technology allows visually [...]
February 17, 2009
Nano Ink “Tattoos”: the next user interface?
A special tattoo ink that changes color based on glucose levels inside the skin is under development by Massachusetts-based Draper Laboratories. The injectable nanotech ink could eventually free diabetics from painful blood glucose tests.
“It doesn’t have to be a large, over-the-shoulder kind of tattoo,” said Heather Clark, a scientist at Draper. “It would only have [...]
February 9, 2009
Kindle 2: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device
Amazon will releasee its 2nd version of the Kindle on 2/24/2009, and what’s really interesting is how Amazon is not calling it an “e-book reader”, but rather a “wireless reading device”. It certainly sounds more sophisticated and might compel customers to cough up the $359 being asked.
Kindle 2 features:
Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin [...]
January 30, 2009
Apple working on 3D Mac OS X user interface
A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal the Mac maker has spent a considerable amount of time outlining a new multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that would make better use of screen real estate by increasing the number of virtual surfaces capable of housing application and interface elements.
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