Tag archives: interface

Cell-o-redito debate

05May09

Is this idea new or old? Five years working within a team for intel’s future tech trends we predicted that phones should have credit card info…and of course the big debate is how dangerous to put everything in one basket.

Already there are countries (finland + Japan) that allow you to wave your phone to pay for food and transportation. but in America our major fault is security. The lawsuit of misplace phones+devices that has your information in it. And worst the psychology of your mind to perceive money from a phone verses a card. one of the many reasons why people are in debt with their credit card. the weight and feeling of giving cash leaves a higher impact of you spending your hard earn money than handing a weightless piece of plastic that never change in weight or size when you earn or lose money.

but overall this is a new avenue of wireless currency that will not replace credit cards or cash but compliment it for improving local business or local convenience like parking meters. I have not read it but heard about the book Everyware by Adam Greenfield which goes into further exploration into this subject.

so in reminder: “a great idea is simply an idea on paper… innovation is not just about ideas but the ability to turn great ideas into reality… ”

via yankodesign

The device in size of a credit card 54×85,6 mm will replace all those. Moreover it can work as:

- Video phone. Before making a call you can choose an operator of a mobile communication.
- All credit and discount cards that you have. The built in program will prompt an optimum variant for discounts at the given payment place.
- The remote control for any device. It can simultaneously display a teleschedule and recommendations of your favourite site.
- Keys from doors of houses and cars you have an authorization to.
- GPS-system that can automatically upload aerial photos from the Internet.
- Library, video- and music shop. You can read, listen to and watch all that at your choice. Go to a public online library or buy all that you want in any shop of the world.
- Gaming device with support of network gaming (remember that you have a GPS and the virtual reality becomes quite real).
- Even your computer that works with any operational system that is being uploaded through the Internet.

For any actions connected with safety (payment, opening of a door, …) the device authorizes you by reading your fingerprints.

Designer: Dima Komissarov

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New way for E-INK–video style

04May09

A new display technology could make electronic paper look more like the real thing. Conventional ink on paper has a much higher brightness and black-and-white color contrast than electronic paper. The new display, made by researchers at the University of Cincinnati, in Ohio, is designed to match the brilliance and contrast of paper. “We’ve demonstrated a technology where you have the brightness of paper, and color has the same saturation that you expect from printed media,” says electrical- and computer-engineering professor Jason Heikenfeld, who led the work, which was published in Nature Photonics.

The pixels also switch between black and white within one millisecond, making the technology suitable for video (LCDs currently switch in a few milliseconds). A slower refresh speed of tens to hundreds of milliseconds is one of the main issues plaguing current e-paper.

So far, Heikenfeld and his colleagues have made rigid black-and-white displays that reflect 55 percent of ambient light–far more than any electronic-paper products currently on the market. White paper reflects 85 percent of ambient light, so it looks much brighter than Heikenfeld’s system. But Heikenfeld says that the technology could be used to make full-color flexible plastic displays that have more than 60 percent brilliance, and higher-grade materials and manufacturing processes should eventually make his device almost as bright as white paper.

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Focus less when tagging articles

01May09

I think i found my reason to stop tagging… amazing how intuitive thinking is better than over-thinking.

via LINK for full article.

When I was at South by Southwest last month, I couldn’t help wondering how much of a presentation someone can really be watching while also paying attention to a Twitter stream and blogging, as most of the audience seemed to be doing. I was the Luddite taking notes on paper (to save my laptop battery). I also believe that social media doesn’t always enhance experience–sometimes, it takes you out of the experience to be had.

So I was interested today when, during one presentation at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Boston, Raluca Budiu, a user-experience specialist for the Nielsen Norman Group, asked the audience whether typing in tags for articles would help them remember key concepts. The answer, according to her research, is no. Users remembered less after typing in tags than after simply reading an article online.

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Cloud Computing is in the air

01May09

Face in the cloud: CloneCloud allows processor-intensive applications, like this prototype face-recognition application, to be offloaded to remote servers.
Credit: Intel Research Berkley

The problem with mobile phones, says Allan Knies, associate director of Intel Research at Berkeley, is that everyone wants them to perform like a regular computer, despite their relatively paltry hardware. Byung-Gon Chun, a research scientist at Intel Research Berkeley, thinks that he might have the solution to that problem: create a supercharged clone of your smart phone that lives in “the cloud” and let it do all the computational heavy lifting that your phone is too wimpy to handle.

CloneCloud, invented by Chun and his colleague Petros Maniatis, uses a smart phone’s high-speed connection to the Internet to communicate with a copy of itself that lives in a cloud-computing environment on remote servers. The prototype runs on Google’s Android mobile operating system and seamlessly offloads processor-intensive tasks to its cloud-based double. Details of the project will be revealed at the HotOS XII conference in Switzerland later this month.

It’s a trick not unlike the way that many Web-based applications, such as Google Docs, run on remote servers. The difference is that because CloneCloud creates a perfect copy of the phone’s software, it can take on literally any processor-intensive task that it calculates it can do faster than the phone itself, after weighing the amount of time and battery life required to transfer the required data.

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Calorie meter Bandage

01May09

It could be a dieter’s best friend or worst nightmare: technology that knows how much a person has just eaten, knows how many calories he has burned off, offers suggestions for improving resolve and success, and never lets him cheat. And it’s all done by a small, stick-on monitor no bigger than a large Band-Aid.

The calorie monitor, which is being developed by biotech incubator PhiloMetron, uses a combination of sensors, electrodes, and accelerometers that–together with a unique algorithm–measure the number of calories eaten, the number of calories burned, and the net gain or loss over a 24-hour period. The patch sends this data via a Bluetooth wireless connection to a dieter’s cell phone, where an application tracks the totals and provides support. “You missed your goal for today, but you can make it up tomorrow by taking a 15-minute walk or having a salad for dinner,” it might suggest.

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Microsoft’s vision

30Apr09

Microsoft concepts.  go to LINK

I suggest you go see the video cause text and images will not experience the vision of computing future. It is about our own paper performing “magic” before our eyes, getting larger or smaller, showing video, or helping us improve an art project. Very conceptual base.

….Here this concept of tactile interface imagined at the same time for the house and work. Two examples in situation, on a “experiment use-interface” directed by Dane Storrusten and conceived by INVIVIA.

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Version Home

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Version Work

Another concept…

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Product Interface = Brand

24Apr09

via iA

This is just the beginning of the blog post, click on the link to understand his whole meaning to the value of interface design within products in relationship to their branding…

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All things have an interface. Shaping interfaces is shaping the character of things. The brand is what transports the character of things. When looking at McDonalds, iPod, Nintendo DS it becomes quite obvious that the interface is the brand.

No Forks, no Knives, no Language Skills

16 columns submenu horizontal, I think, standing at the counter at McDonald’s. I scroll left and right and put a simple cheeseburger in my mental shopping basket. 16 columns, yet so usable. “Cheezubaagaa kudasai” I hear myself say, and glancing at the cashier display and the French fry machine interface, I hold my breath: Wow. Why did I never realize? Being a foreigner in Japan, I decide to go to McDonald’s because at McDonald’s I don’t need to deal with language. I could get much better food in a similar price range if I were ready to think, read Kanji and explain myself. But I’m not, as I’m hungry.

I’ll fill you Without any Brain Stress

McDonald’s is very easy to use, I then think, and then the McDonald’s interface looks the same all over the world. Yes, that is why it is so successful. A simple interface. I don’t need to think when entering, ordering, paying, eating at McDonald’s. McDonald’s doesn’t make me think. That’s what the McDonald’s brand promises the hungry stomach: We’re sweet and we’ll fill you without any brain stress.

Sandwiches can be Complicated at Times

While checking out (paying), I decide to go through with this thought, and look closely at the cheeseburger, and yes, indeed. The cheeseburger as has the easiest food interface one could think of. No forks, no knives, no spoons, no plates, no chopsticks. Like a sandwich, but softer and sweeter and above all: Standardized. No alarms and no surprises when eating a cheeseburger. Almost as simple as “the only intuitive interface” – the nipple. Sandwiches can be complicated at times.

The standardization makes the cheeseburger’s interface a branded one. Only a McDonald’s cheeseburger looks like a McDonald’s cheeseburger. I unwrap it and look at the bread and the meat and the ketchup mustard color pattern: McDonald’s cheeseburger it is.

produkter05_300dpi, blogged to AHT from Flickr of eatmydesign cheeseburger

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Tubular Laptop

24Apr09

sidenote – i love the “idea” direction this device is heading, but aesthetically terrible. not clean, to much is happening, it is a visual overload.

via TF

D-roll is a next generation concept laptop design which is way distinctive from usual laptops in both shape and function.

d-roll laptop concept

d-roll laptop concept

d-roll laptop concept

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Amuen – social canvas…

24Apr09

via FT

World-recognized strategy, innovation, and design consultancy RKS, in collaboration with Neuma, is proud to announce the debut of Amuen.com, the new social network where creative souls can connect to celebrate, showcase, and inspire all kinds of creativity and art.

When it comes to reasons to live, art and human interaction top the list for Carson Hill, painter, tattoo artist, and inventor. “Art is very inspiring – to me the universe and everything in it is art,” said Carson. Steve Johnson, Carson’s right hand at Neuma (the company behind the Neuma Hybrid) comes from a very different, but no less creative world. The idea for Amuen (am-yoo-en) struck when Carson and Steve realized there was a need for a site that welcomes creatives and artists of all types. No matter what your medium, there are elements of the creative process that transcend any one discipline.

Why the name Amuen? Well, Amuen is a type of African word that means “spirits,” – a nod to the creative spirit within each of us. Neuma on the other hand, is Latin for “spirited” or air-powered. Oh, and if you hadn’t noticed, Amuen is Neuma spelled backwards. But that’s strictly coincidence.

amuen web

amuen web

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BLOG Hunter #12 – siteinspire.net

22Apr09

for myself this blog allows me to be searching for inspiration like i am in a library – the randomness of how we research and search… I love how they link each inspiring site to something similar or off tangent. pic is the link.

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