Caught this in The Sydney Morning Herald today, no information on who makes it, I’ve tried Google without any joy.
Luckily the picture speaks a thousand words, the technology “allows visitors to look at a display, connected with a computer and a camera which detects their gender, age group and mood”
This is pretty amazing, I wonder if it will make it’s way onto mobile via Augmented Reality apps or picture recognition solutions?
Imagine life online without clicking, how would you navigate? Would you miss it? Or would you love it?
Check out dontclick.it, the site that gives you a taste of a world where clicks are banished. It raises some interesting questions and is actually more related to mobile than you’d think.
Augmented Reality eat your heart out, this looks mental.
Check out the end of the video when the guys starts wobbling as the camera goes higher.
Technology by Eon Reality.
This is SICK.
Check this video out by Keiichi Matsuda and Gen Otsubo as part of a larger project about the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality.
What I like about it is how gritty it is compared to that super glossy Microsoft ‘Vision of 2019‘ – not everyone is going to be living and working in minimalist glass buildings 9 years from now.
I’ve been waiting for someone to make a video like this for ages. Especially with all that talk of augmented reality-enabled contact lenses that display your vital signs. Fits with the video perfectly.
There is no doubt that the success of the iPhone has played a massive part in the development of touch interfaces. One of its greatest innovations is multi-touch, which is starting to appear everywhere, including the trackpads on new Mac laptops .
What’s going to be interesting is seeing how people utilise it in completely unique and exciting ways. This is one example which has impressed me recently.
The guys at Moto Labs have developed a full-scale version of a Blackjack table with resistive multi-touch. The logic behind it goes like this:
Gaming is an ideal application for multi-touch screen technology. Replacing physical tokens, chips, cards, or game pieces with virtual items eliminates tedious setup, distribution, and cleanup tasks while increasing the efficiency and accuracy of gameplay.
So a touch screen gaming table might not sound bleeding edge, but check out the natural gestures for hiding your cards and dealing:
And what about the other opportunities for casinos? Read More
Strolled past this interactive art installation at Lexington and 33rd St in New York. It uses capacitive sensors and multi-touch just like the iPhone.
The piece is called Semi Boneless and is by Robert Stratton with the technology coming from Sensacell. Check out the rubbish quality videos my Blackberry took:
God damn you Nike, letting your agencies run wild and be massively innovative with the brand. How dare you.
I totally missed this campaign which ran in the summer, it’s off the hook. Nike teamed up with the guys at Tour De France to display messages of “hope, perseverance and love” with the road-printing Chalk Bot. Read More
Have you ever wanted to send a parcel to someone but didn’t know their address? You’d probably be like most people and just ask for it, but what if you only knew their Twitter username or email address? (cue Psycho shower scene music)
SendSocial allows you to send parcels without the recipient disclosing their address. It works by letting the recipient know via Twitter or email that someone wants to send them something. They then have the choice to either accept or decline, if they accept, SendSocial will request their details and address.
The sender is then given a barcode to print out which the courier (fulfilled by MyHermes) scans on pickup to identify where it needs to delivered. This keeps the receipients address hidden. Read More
Wireless power is awesome. It goes without saying that the potential of this technology is huge for consumer electronics, automotive and even health industries.
Imagine the day when you can sit at your desk without kicking 5 power cables everytime you stretch out. Amazing.
Big companies like Nokia, Dell and Intel are racing to develop this technology so they can make billions the world a better place, but only once they’ve laid rest to consumer fears of getting blasted with cancer everytime they turn on a wire-free TV.
Powermat is one company looking to bring wireless power into the home and office by providing a solution for those damn one or two charging cables you have on your desk.
For the small price of £70 you can have a mat where you can charge up to 4 devices by wireless power including the iPhone, iPod, BlackBerry and Nintendo DS Lite and DSi device.
Bit steep, but it sounds great right? No more wires! Wait right there, I forgot to mention that every device you have needs a special case that costs around £30! Read More
I’ve been studying these brilliant videos over the last few weeks for a project I was involved in and thought I should put them all in one place and share them with you.
They show how mobile phone and devices will be such a core part of our lives in the future, featuring in everything we do from work, family, health and fun. Many of the things you see in the videos are already in development, Microsoft Surface being one example and others such as NFC & Augemented Reality are readily available today.
The following question asked by the Microsoft Office Labs website is a perfect lead into the videos:
How will emerging technology improve our productivity in the years ahead? What opportunities will arise from evolving trends and global change? Microsoft has collaborated with customers, partners, and thought leaders across multiple disciplines to develop scenarios that explore how long-term trends, customer challenges, and emerging technologies might converge to improve our lives, both at work and home.
Check them out:
Intel
Microsoft
Check out this great video from Touch showing the possibilities of using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags inside of physical objects to control media playback.
It gives you some fantastic insight on the tools brands, agencies and advertisers will have at their disposal in the future. That is of course providing NFC enabled phones actually take off, but all it takes is a handset like the iPhone to step in with it and change the market. According to this patent application by Apple, that might just happen.
The even bigger picture is using your phone to interact with everyday objects and devices (also the basis for my NFC concept). Explained simply in the picture below.
What is even more excitin is the exploration not only about the phone reacting as output for an object but also as the input. Read More
When I say future, I actually mean by the end of 2009.
Check out some of these handsets that are being launched by Japan telecomms company Softbank. All handsets are made by Sharp.
Solar Hybrid 936SH
The ‘Solar Hybrid’ is by far the most impressive handset. It gives you 1 minute call time for every 10 minutes charged by the sun as well as a UV rating in case you don’t want to get burnt. Amazingly it’s also waterproof withstanding being immersed in 1 meter of water for 30 minutes.
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