Archive for February, 2007

First public demo of growwwing at BarCamp Montreal

Growwwing is described by its creator as “a marketing solution that enables them to wisely use the web. The users will be able and guided to simply create and manage their web site, gather form data, send newsletters, put ads on the Google network and follow all these marketing initiatives with an easy to understand [...]

Reactable, another experiment of Tangible User Interface (TUI)

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Developped by Sergi Jordi , Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger and Marcos Alonso at the Music Technology Group within Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
This another example of great TUI use. It is not based on multitouch technology but on video analysis of an illuminated surface. Each object is recognized through it’s shape, color and patterns printed [...]

Google too has a mobile phone concept : Vision

Now here’s an idea that’s certain to be reality in just a few short years. Called Google Vision, it’s a concept developed BY UK designer Callum Peden. Google Vision features a handset-type device that opens out to reveal a retractable flexible screen. Callum’s idea is for the device to capture images through its camera and [...]

Slightly better demo of the OLPC User Interface

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OLPC – One Laptop Per CHild – program sports a very original UI based on invisible concentric circles metaphorically figuring activity, home, friends and neighborhood. Read more at http://www.laptop.org/laptop/interface/principles.shtml.