Humanizing Mobile Phones with Shape-Shifts and Heartbeats
February 24, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Fabian Hemmert, TEDx Berlin, exploring the digital/physical potential of mobile devices. Floating gravitational center: augmenting physical objects with directional mass. Shape-changing mobile: thin to thick, inclined, or tilting toward more content by slanted direction. Acting like a living phone, with every breath and heartbeat.
Navigating the iPad by Multi-Touch
January 29, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Steve Jobs navigating iPad applications through multi-touch interactions in his interface demo. There’s a nice new range of combined touch and multi-finger gestures extending the flexibility of our relationship with the screen.
Steve Gillmor Panel on the Significance of the iPad
January 29, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Steve Gillmor, Nicholas Carr, Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, and Kevin Marks.
Fresh perspectives and context from different POVs, making some sense out of its impact and ramifications. (Jan 28, 2010, 55 min)
Hypothetical simulation of Apple’s gesture touch system
January 12, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
The finger gesture interface may add new levels of user interaction to Apple’s tablet and transform our tactile engagement with software programs. This test was simply based on Apple’s patented gesture drawings.
Intel’s Double-HD 2X MultiTouch Wall
January 8, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Hundreds of realtime web narratives accessed by MultiTouch from an undulating 3D tapestry, powered by a single i7 processor.
Navigation based on serendipity, and randomization. Laptop/Tablet controller has a range of controllable parameters for customized screen behavior.
Concepts for interactive reading devices
December 30, 2009 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
This conceptual video is a collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices.
This approach is still bound by the tablet’s form factor and traditional print journal layout conventions. The demo’s functionality is still linear, so it would make sense to explore a more node networked contextual navigation system.