This is the perfect nerd gift for the designer in your life. As iPhone apps get more and more popular its a good idea to have the right tool for application design. Go check out the Design Commission website to get yours.
Multitouch Barcelona
This is the kind of exciting human interaction design we need to see more in everyday life, im sure we will come soon, but im way too much of a interactive junkie to wait for it.
Designed for the Red Bull Music Academy 08, Guten Touch is an interactive art installation that involves people into a natural relationship with technology. A two projected displays system plus a 3m x 2m multitouch wall showcase applications designed to engage us into human friendly experiences rather than flashy and jaw-dropping visualizations. Space Invaders hit by foam balls, pixel paintings created with brushes, and digital objects held by hands try to blur boundaries between real and digital. Guten Touch is our enthusiastic good morning to natural interaction.
Watch the video and visit the multitouch Barcelon website for more information and video.
Illustration by Russ Mills
Beautiful illustrations by Russ Mills, Illustrator / painter from Brighten, United Kingdom…
check out his prints at byroglyphics
Cheers!
Moto - Scalable Multi Touch
Scalable Multi-Touch Prototype from MOTO Development Group on Vimeo.
You thought the iPhones touch screen technology was cool, just wait until the sensitivity factor goes up and the details of human interaction comes alive.
Devices such as the iPhone have begun to scratch the surface of gesture-based software interfaces, yet large, true multi-touch interfaces are still rare, bulky, and expensive.
This recent prototype - a next iteration of labs’ Sensing Screen - promises effortless touch interaction, full multi-touch, a robust glass work surface, low stack height, with comparatively moderate cost. It does not utilize cameras or projection technology. This means that in production, this scalable technology could be very thin and very big. It could sit on legs like any table, or lay on a wall surface like any LCD panel.
Wolfram Alpha
Loving the new Wolfram search tools. Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. They aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Their goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematization’s of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.
I think this will be an enourmoous learing tool in the future. Imagine pluging Wolfram data into a very robust and dynaic data visualizatioln tool that can be manipulated in real time, that would be cool.
Crayon Art
Fun illustrations created with crayons by Christian Faur.
Auto Photography
Very nice automotive photography by Webb Bland at Notbland.com. He must know i’m a BMW fan, especialy the M series.
Art from code
Kieth Peters - Art from code.
Generative art refers to art that has been generated, composed, or constructed in an algorithmic manner through the use of systems defined by computer software algorithms, or similar mathematical or mechanical or randomised autonomous processes.
Tesla Motors
I saw a Tesla on the Long Island Expressway this weekend, very nice. At first it looked like a Lotus because of its size, but once you see it up close you quickly realize it has its own distinct personality. This is a great example of a car company (Tesla Motors) paying attention to whats happening to the automotive industry as a whole, and adapting technology to an ever changing planet and economy.
Specs:
> Pure electric power
> 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds
> 244 miles per charge
> Carbo fiber body
This would make for a nice eco-friendly midlife crisis car. I have a few years to go but this car will be on my list for sure.
Augmented Reality Games + Mobile
Yes, it is true I do enjoy games and I do love my iPhone, but what I like even more is seeing the amazing opportunities that will be possible with new mobile devices/software in the future. The most impressive and exciting game ideas are being developed with Augmented Reality, which can be described as a combination of real-world and computer-generated data, where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time.
Take a look at the simple tamagotchi style AR game in the video above. It is easy to see how this technology will open a flood gate of not just games ideas but visual search, commerce and socialization possibilities.
