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Moppet mashup: great multi-touch solution

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:57:27 +0000

Recently FWA wrote about this niceley done multi-touch solution from PhenomenBlue. You can see yourself in the Microsoft Surface table, play with other people in a virtual puppet show. And of course send your snapshot to your twitter/twitpic. Love it.
Read more: Project – Behind the scenes.

Microsoft Surface – Moppet Mashup from Phenomblue on Vimeo.

Razorfish does multi touch for Windows 7.

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:24:14 +0000

“Razorfish partnered with the Microsoft team to deliver multi-touch experiences which emulate a Windows Phone 7 Series device. The experience is deployed on multiple 40″ multi-touch displays at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.”

Windows Phone 7 Series – Touch Experience from Razorfish – Emerging Experiences on Vimeo.

Flatfrog Multi-touch gets $18 million in funding

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:30:29 +0000

Swedish company FlatFrog gets funding to accelerate the commercialisation of their nice multi-touch solutions. I like their thin solution and this is good news! I believe this confirms what Razorfish wrote about in yesterdays excellent report “Five technologies that will change your business” : Multi-touch will transform Retail in 2010…
Exciting times!

From: Crunchgear

Gesture Cube – I want it.

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:32:01 +0000

No need to touch – just give it a wave!

Just wave your hand to access music, web, your family and friends.
You don´t even need to touch the surface. Read more: Gesture Tube or Touch User Interface.
Gesture Cube uses 3D spatial movement tracking to help transform navigating a device into a magical intuitive experience. The underlying GestIC® technology detects your hand´s approach and movements – your favorite apps and media all at a wave of your hand.

Future meeting rooms…

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:17:24 +0000

Read more at Edinburgh Napier University – Future LIving, Future life website. Or watch the BBC news (with Swedish Snowflake technology) about future offices.

Retail Digital Signage.

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:09:00 +0000

A cool holographic touch screen…from Intel. Read more about the future of Digital Signage in the retail industry at this excellent blog: Elevating Interactivity.

Put your energy into what you love…

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:27:31 +0000

“Sometimes there are things you love to do that you forget about. Put your energy into the things you love–put all the energy you can into these things…and see what happens“

Copied from the excellent blog Marketinghitch.com. Recommend the latest post about “What marketers need from their ad agencies”. Great post!

“10 red ballons have been hidden around the U.S. and you have to find them. How long would it take you? Could you do it in 4 weeks , 6 months, a year? MIT Media Lab’s Dr. Riley Crane took that challenge, which last month was presented by the Pentagon’s DARPA, and with his team, used social media to accomplish the task in just 8 hours and 52 minutes!

UID wins the Microsoft Touch Challenge

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:02:31 +0000

User Interface Design GmbH wins the “Touch First Developer Challenge“, a Microsoft Surface design contest. Both the graphical design and interaction design is really really nice! ”The award-winning application is an interactive company presentation. Digital cards give information on reference projects, competences, methods, and contact persons of UID. The Surface table is operated via gestural interaction. Apart from gestures that already exist such as touching, rotating, or scaling, UID also developed own gestures.”

Avatar movie -now in bus shelters.

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:30:30 +0000

I don’t really like bus shelters. Well -up until today. Check this campaign for the upcoming movie Avatar (and LG cellphones). Using touch screens they turn the bus shelter into a multimedia kiosk… Me like.

For more info on how to transform public spaces to interactive marketing… check this blog: The word is my interface.

And…of course - MIT – has a very futuristic bus shelter called the EyeStop. Public transport will be so much more fun in the future…

Mixed reality from Germany…

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:38:58 +0000

Virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. Interactive presentation technology is moving fast. It seems to me - that Germany is ahead of things – already at the edge of new technology with new companies popping up and doing amazingly creative work. So: another new innovative company from Frankfurt gets my total attention (and love) - NewMedia Yuppies (what a great company name! haha I wanna be your Yuppie!). They work with Frauenhofer Researchers and Instant reality. Well worth checking out these links!

But ok, I do love Germany and their innovative companies. Also: a New Zeeland company called MindSpace Solutions, have some innovative people and products as well. Check out this amazing AR binocular technology! It rocks my socks!