http://www.iftf.org/iasp , interesting overview from researcher Anthony Townsend and team at the Institute for the Future. Discusses growth areas for economic development and technical innovation over the next 20 years. Sharp presentation here…
This should be fun (and give the Wii – which I own – a run for its money). Gestures appear to be a rapidly growing new paradigm in UI control. The XBox is enabling full-body motion recognition plus speech/voice recognition. Check out the video to see it in action…
Timely, per my last post. With myriad information sources that people sift through, context and reliability are becoming increasingly important to search – both on the web and in the enterprise. Common practice to date has been for a user to click through tens or hundreds (or more) search results of meta-tagged information trying to determine the best [...]
wolfram|alpha is worth a look and quite cool. With an emphasis on knowledge-based computing, the tool currently processes over 10 trillion pieces of information (which are continuously updated), handles free form, natural language query, and provides real-time results. You can also check out Stephen Wolfram’s overview of the tool here (or watch below). As he states, the project is in its infancy [...]
The mouse, keyboard, and (dare I say) remote control have long dominated human computer interaction while the touch screen (i.e. Surface) and tablet technology, have emerged in recent years, as more human-centric interactions. In a similar vain to Johnny Mnemonic or Minority Report, gestures and manipulation of virtual objects are quickly evolving as an effective means to interact [...]
this is brilliant. I posted a few weeks ago about tagging, which leverages mobile infrastructure, a camera phone, and special image patterns to provide users with additional context and/or experiences about whatever the ‘tag’ is associated with. Imagine coming at this from the user’s angle where wearable technology enabled you to interact with your environment through [...]
I worked in the mobile industry for a number of years and spent some time exploring location-based services and contactless transactions for mobile devices. I stumbled across this technology today from Microsoft that really wowed me. Tagging is not a new concept (we’re doing it more and more with our photos, documents, blog posts, and [...]
…actually it was a couple of years before this on an Apple IIe (I had learned to program on it, then worked with a couple of classmates to write an educational game called Celestial Adventures) – But the Macintosh was my first home computer circa late 1984. I still recall the black and white screen and [...]
Per my post a couple of weeks back, the livelabs folks have launched a web-based photosynth utility. I’ve given it a shot with two of my 3D models embedded below. They are not quite as fluid as I want them to be – as you will see, not all of the images have been mapped [...]
I’ve used an unwrap technique for 3D modelling which helps the designer to apply textures effectively onto various surfaces of a model. The value is that I have full control over 3D space and can break the model apart to see the visibile surface in a 2D representation. This allows me to design a graphic that [...]
