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)
VW Campaign by Deutsch L.A.
January 28, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Humanizing narrative with feisty character, drawing historical parallels of cultural rituals with VW’s legacy. Sluggy Patterson, and the punchy tradition.
Austrian Armed Forces Ad
January 28, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
The art of persuasion on primal instincts triggered with your basic ingredients and delivered with a smile. (It’s about the concept)
Robert Sapolsky on the Uniqueness of Humans
January 20, 2010 by George Canciani · 1 Comment
Been following Robert’s research for a few years, offering applicable insights into our nature as a species. Sapolsky speaks about the uniqueness of humans in relation to the rest of the animal world, topics include aggression, theory of mind, the golden rule, and desire. (37 min)
Interaction of Color and Light, LEDColourLab
January 20, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Two installations from the Zurich ColourLight Center that play with LED lighting and colored surfaces. This is an examination of design-relevant phenomena of the interaction between light and colour, developing knowledge and result-oriented methods for relevant research solutions.
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.
Samsung’s 14-inch transparent OLED Laptop screen
January 9, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
First and largest transparent OLED Panel prototype. Designed for use in applications, smartphones, animated photo ID cards. Applied to tablets, with Augmented Reality apps would be a nice start.
Samsung Flexible AM OLED Technology as new design component
January 9, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
OLEDs (organic light emitting diodes), are finally accessible, do not require a backlight to function, can display deep blacks, draw less power, and are thinner and lighter than LCD panels.
Foldable OLEDs have substrates made of very flexible metallic foils/plastics, are lightweight, durable, and their use in devices can reduce breakage issues. These flexible displays are ready to be applied to a whole new generation of imaginative applications. Another design tool for conceptual expression.
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.