FluidTunes

Gestural Control for iTunes: FluidTunes

3D Touch Panel

Earlier this month Mitsubishi Electric unveiled their new "3D touch panel" technology. Current touchscreens can read your finger's position anywhere along the X- or Y-axis; Mitsubishi's innovation is to read the finger's position on the Z-axis, adding another level of measurable interaction. The design, Mitsubishi hopes, will increase the functionality of a small screen--enabling no-touch mouseovers and submenu pop-ups, for example.

Mitsubishi Demos '3D Touch Panel' -- Tech-On!

Extreme Sheep LED Art

Microsoft Sustainability

Cycorder

Cycorder The Free iPhone Video Recorder Review | iPhone-Hacks.com

You can watch videos on the iPhone itself or to really see the quality of the video you can download them to your computer. MOV extension video files can be found in the ‘/private/var/mobile/Media/Videos/’ folder on your iPhone. Unfortunately audio is still in the works and is expected in a future release.

DO YOU POKEN ?

In the real world...
With your poken you instantly connect with new friends across online social networks when and where you meet them.

At any computer with web access...
The poken hand pulls out of the body, revealing a USB connector. Insert the USB connector into any computer with web access to easily upload your new contacts to the Poken web database.

On doyoupoken.com...
You choose which of your social network profiles you would like to share with people when you meet them in the real world.
A small logo of each social network you choose is displayed as a link on your « Poken Card ,» which shows only your most basic information. Your contacts can view your Poken Card on doyoupoken.com, but, if they want to see more, they only have to click the logo to see your profile on the social networking site you’ve chosen to share.
On the Poken site you and your friends can view your contacts alphabetically, or chronologically in your "social timeline." You can also send messages, group contacts with a label, write notes for yourself about each contact, and so much more.

Welcome to Poken: "DO YOU POKEN ?"

Coke Avatar

Prograstination

CyberMedia Blog

The eBook market in Japan keeps growing. Japanese who were famous for their high consumption of printed media use more and more digital media. Today 82% of all eBook are read on mobile phones. According to the ‘Keitai Hakusho 2009’ (impress R&) the mobile e-Book market was 290 million dollars in 2008. 65% of all eBooks were mobile mangas (comic books) and mostly consumed by young men. For Japanese women mobile novels are really popular now.

New at the simpleandopen-Blogroll:
CyberMedia Blog

Interface Design: Kicker Studio's neato Gestural Entertainment Center - Core77

Design consultancy Kicker Studio has designed a rather cool "Gestural Entertainment Center" for electronics company Canesta. Take a look:
via: Interface Design: Kicker Studio's neato Gestural Entertainment Center - Core77

Augmented Reality Technology, 3D Interactive Toyota iQ

Augmented Reality Technology, 3D Interactive Toyota iQ | Toyota UK: "Toyota have used augmented reality technology to create a 3D interactive experience of the new iQ car which you can download here.
Toyota iQ is a radical new small car and augmented reality technology allows you to interact with the car to discover its agility and interior space."

Topps Adds a 3-D Angle to Baseball Cards

"Total Immersion, a French company, brought Topps the augmented reality technology. It has already been used in a theme park and for some auto design work. Using the technology, card collectors see a three-dimensional version of a player and can play elementary pitching, batting and catching games using the computer keyboard."
Read more: Topps Adds a 3-D Angle to Baseball Cards - NYTimes.com

http://www.toppstown.com/UserSite/TotalImmersion/Help.aspx

"Sixth Sense" MIT Wearable Device

1. Minibeamer
2. Camera
3. Gestures

Multiplayer Mercedes-Benz Quartett

more: Mercedes-Benz Quartett jetzt kostenlos im App Store [Update]

Cool products that will crash on us in ten years

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&showPlaylist=true&from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>
When Microsoft decides to imagine the future, it never fails to impress. Not only do you have some of the smartest people envisioning what’s possible, but they also invest so much into communicating these ideas through sights and sounds which the production value can be compared to most blockbuster sci-fi films.

(via Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage video) - istartedsomething)

Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit

Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit: "Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability."

Featuring
Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Chris Bangle (BMW Group, Munich)
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Paris)
Andrew Blauvelt (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Tim Brown (IDEO)
Anthony Dunne (London)
Dan Formosa (Smart Design)
Naoto Fukasawa (Tokyo)
Jonathan Ive (Apple, California)
Hella Jongerius (Rotterdam)
David Kelley (IDEO)
Bill Moggridge (IDEO)
Marc Newson (London/Paris)
Fiona Raby (London)
Dieter Rams (Kronberg, Germany)
Karim Rashid (New York)
Alice Rawsthorn (International Herald Tribune)
Davin Stowell (Smart Design)
Jane Fulton Suri (IDEO)
Rob Walker (New York Times Magazine)

Flickr Clock

stamen design | Flickr Clock is Live: "Our friends at Flickr ('almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world') have launched Stamen's new project with them, Flickr Clock. It's a browser for the videos that people have recently started uploading to the site. They're arranged chronologically, and drawn from videos that people have posted to the flickrclock group on flickr."

Siftables

Realtime Twitter Search Results on Google (MT Hacks)

Realtime Twitter Search Results on Google (MT Hacks): "While I am not sure if Twitter poses a threat to Google, I think it is clear that real-time search is increasingly important. And you can be sure that Google knows it. Will Google try to acquire Twitter, or take some other approach? Time will tell, but rather that wait, I decided to get realtime twitter search results on Google today. I created a Greasemonkey user script that does exactly this. It displays the most recent 5 tweets for the query that you are search for, giving both real-time Twitter search results and Google results on the same page:"

Experimentelle iPhone-Applikationen

3D News Reader

3D news reader on the iphone from Ariel Malka on Vimeo.

Find more:
- Dune Reader
- Rollercoaster Reader
- Babel Tower
- Worm reader

on:
Chronotext: Text & experimentelle iPhone-Applikationen

Suggested Feature List for Touchgrind

- Variable zoom
- Ability to design your own board (wheels. trucks, graphics)
- Save replays
- Small map in corner
- More boards
- Achievements
- Multiplayer support
- Old-school boards
- More skateparks
!!!- Use own photos for boards
!!!- Ability to tighten/loosen trucks for steering
- Grindable edges (boxes, ramps)
- Lite version
- New system for unlocking boards
!!!- Scale map icons depending on distance
- Offline level editor
- Change board in game without going back to main menu
- Set markers in zoomed out view
- Save markers
- Delete markers
- A game of "H.O.R.S.E" (yeah we know it should be called S.K.A.T.E)
!!!- Gain speed by pushing second finger
- Manuals
- Manually flip the board when it lands upside down
- Name of trick should be displayed
- Late flips
- Fakies
!!!- Online park editor
- Faster respawn when landing up-side-down
- Grabs
!!!- Powerslides
- Reverts
!!!- The faster you skate, the more zoomed out
!!!- Use accelerometer to control camera
- Stall on ramps and rails
- When you land a trick when time is 0, you should still get the points
!!!- Use the accelerometer to steer
- New stopping/slow down method
!!!- Shoes
- A reset button for resetting score etc.
- Primos
- Ability to grind/slide on lips and edges
- More highscores like best grind, best combo, highest jump, air time etc..
- Real skateboard brands
- Taller and longer stair sets
- Button to exit replay
- Auto-save replay

Find more: Touchgrind

Fresh Information Graphics | Design You Trust. World's Most Famous Social Inspiration.

Fresh Information Graphics | Design You Trust. World's Most Famous Social Inspiration.

NYTimes: A Visual Yearly Overview of News (1984-2009) - information aesthetics

NYTimes: A Visual Yearly Overview of News (1984-2009) - information aesthetics:

A series of visualizations [flickr.com] that represent the top organizations and people mentioned in the news articles of the New York Times for a given year of news between 1984 and 2009. Connections between these entities are drawn, so that relationships can be found and followed. These circular graphs are based on the faceted searching abilities of the NYTimes Article Search API, that were released a short while ago.

More information on the blog entry of the author, Jer Thorp.

Reminds me of the circular graph of the Eigenfactor project, although some subtle differences in "bundling" the edges for visual clarity exist.

Via datavisualization.ch.

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see conference #4

see conference #4 - Die Konferenz zur Visualisierung von Information am 18.4.2009 in Wiesbaden. Präsentiert von Scholz & Volkmer

Speakers:
- Aaron Koblin, Google Creative Lab, San Francisco
-Sebastian Oschatz, MESO Digital Interiors, Frankfurt
- Gijs Joosen, ONL, Rotterdam (Architecture = Information)
- Julian Oliver, Software Künstler, Madrid (Augmented Reality)
- Eric Rodenbeck, Stamen Design, San Francisco (Mapping)
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhard Roth, Universität Bremen

Mobile Megatrends 2009

Mobile Megatrends 2009 (VisionMobile)

View more presentations from andreasc. (tags: samsung analytics)

via VisionMobile :: blog :: Mobile Megatrends 2009

Study Character Relationships - ‘Jules et Jim’

Using Infographics to Study Character Relationships - ‘Jules et Jim’
February 11th, 2009 | by Nathan |
I stumbled upon a collection of 22 cool infographics that represent the relationships between the main characters of the 1962 movie Jules et Jim by Truffaut.

I’ve pulled a few of my favorites and included them below.

Simple Complexity � Blog Archive � Using Infographics to Study Character Relationships - ‘Jules et Jim’