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.
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.
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.
Above is an image of 1301 fluorescent tubes powered only by the electric fields generated by overhead powerlines. It was created by Richard Box while artist-in-residence at Bristol University’s physics department.
He got the idea for the installation after a chance conversation with a friend. ‘He was telling me he used to play with a fluorescent tube under the pylons by his house,’ says Box. ‘He said it lit up like a light sabre.’ Box decided to see if he could fill a field with tubes lit by powerlines. After a few weeks hunting for a site, he found a field, slipped the local farmer £200 and planted 3,600 square metres with tubes collected from hospitals.
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.
it is slowly coming… still waiting for a fully transparent screen, but why just the number pad ?
Introduced at the latest GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as a concept, the new LG-GD900 phone with improved UI and transparent keyboard will be LG’s latest star at CTIA 09. If we’re still waiting for more detailed specifications, LG has confirmed that everyone attending the CTIA 09 will get the chance to see this baby in the flesh and play with it…
Because I believe in collaboration, I asked three firms I particularly admire to join me, they were One and Co (Jonah Becker), Philips Design (Scott Lehman) and Frog design (Mark Rolston). These three gentlemen are super talented and generous. Together we outlined the major trends that we collectively believe have significantly influenced the industry over the past few years, I’d like to share them with you now:
“It’s not about the object, stupid!�?
I guess its obvious from the title, but we believe today’s powerful creative’s realize that the object is just a prop – yes you have to design it faultlessly – but it’s just part of a broader story we need to be crafting..
Globalization
What an opportunity, lets all embrace this one. Learn to understand different cultures, their idiosyncrasies, their ideologies, and then translate them into relevant products. It’s also about learning to team globally – a thrilling opportunity.
Individuality
If you go into a design Studio and hear words like ‘cool’ used to describe the work, run as fast as you can! The language of today’s design Studios need to be about “relevance�?, “culture�? “empathy�?… today’s marketplace is fragmented, hard to define, and driven by the cult of the individual. It’s a fascinating place, and it requires a new level of human understanding.
There’s no such thing as ideal conditions
This one is particularly close to me heart. Timelines are short. Expectations are long. Budgets are tight… there’s no such thing as ideal conditions. The key is in taking what you have and still making it shine. Making it look easy. A task that requires unconditional commitment.
he is interviewed about the importance of design and how the company Teague has stayed true to themselves about the importance of designing emotionally. –
Walter Dorwin Teague was a true pioneer; he understood the importance of emotion and believed our ultimate goal was to create a pleasurable experience for the users of the objects we design. Seems simple enough, though over the years I believe the industry has somewhat lost sight of that. Design today has become a bit of a business press darling, in some respects that exposure has raised the bar, but I don’t know that the design industry has properly capitalized on that. I’d like to see more examples of design leading business; educating, mentoring and demonstrating the massive economic potential of emotionally relevant products.
So, if you have not noticed i have been on the likecool blog all day. cause their postings are that extreme….. but this i wanted….. more like the emotions of want it now, but never buy it….
The Lenovo’s new laptop Pocket Yoga, Cool! It is a smaller enough to fit into your pants pocket like a VAIO P . Featuring ultra-wide display, a leather-bound shell, touchscreen… Now you can only see these hot pics at lenovo flickr set, there is no word, no pricing, spec and when is available…
Avex Broadcasting & Communications Inc, a new company founded by Avex Entertainment and NTT Docomo, announced Wednesday that it will produce and broadcast dramas, variety shows, music shows and animation exclusively for cell phones through its new service BeeTV. Twenty-one programs, all of which run for less than 10 minutes, have already been given the green light. BeeTV starts airing its programs on May 1 for a monthly charge of 315 yen ($3).
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one of the many reasons why apple iphone was not successful in the beginning within japan….they did not realize the amount of users that watch tv on their cell phone! heck i would if i took a train to work. In the american style…we have tv in our cars… so we are just as bad.
“AGFA-Gevaert NV and IMEC of Belgium, and Holst Centre, Philips Research and TNO of the Netherlands announced that they have prototyped a 12 x 12cm flexible OLED lighting panel by using highly-conductive transparent resin electrodes in place of ITO (indium tin oxide).
So far, it has been difficult to secure enough electrical conductivity of ITO in a low-temperature process. The new transparent resin has a high conductivity and is suited for coating method. Therefore, it is relatively easy to use the resin in a printing process. For the development, the companies received support from “Fast2Light,” the European Union’s project aimed at manufacturing flexible OLED lamps by a printing process.”
this is a quick information blog of blogs. A simple collections of oxcullent findings out on the web.
(currently I am shifting gears about how this blog will evolve. For quick and updated information there are links in the info section - google reader and twitter)
