Back in late October 2009, Adobe Labs showcased an upcoming feature in Photoshop called Content Aware Fill. And it was absolutely amazing. Now they have released another video, showcasing even more impressive image manipulations.
A number of people have pointed me towards PhotoSketch, a research/student project from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at National University of Singapore (now there is a mouthful).
Every Star Trek fanatic dream about the holosuite. A room in which you have holographic projections that looks like the real thing - and that you can touch, feel and interact with. We are now one step closer to that dream.
A few days ago I posted the article about World Builder - a short film demonstrating a way for architects and builders to create the world of they're dreams using holographic projection. Aku commented, "Someone needs to invent a time machine soonish or I'll go mad with anticipation". But do we really need to wait? Could we do it today?
Here is an ingenious way to illustrate how many people like, or don't like, a specific page on your site. A crowd of animated people will gather around your browser window if a page is popular. And if not... well...
We have already seen a ton of touch based screens, ranging from ones with a simple input method to very complex multi-touch and multi-sensor displays. Now you can do the same with mirrors.
Wouldn't it be great if you could simply flip open your mobile phone to make the screen bigger? Samsung have created an OLED prototype that can do just that.
The webcam is turning into an ever more powerful addition to our computers. We have already seen what you can do with PlayStation Eye. Ray-Ban has the virtual mirror, and now you will soon be able to control your computer via your web cam too.
I love sketching, but sometimes I would really like to be able to sketch in 3D. You know, to get the feeling of dimension and shape. More importantly, wouldn't it be something if you could sketch in 3D as easy as if it was 2D?
3D printing has been around for a long time, but it is still far too expensive for small businesses or personal use. But now a new online service makes it very affordable for everyone.
Epaper technology has been around for a long time, but has not yet reached the right level of sophistication. It is used in popular devices such as the Amazon Kindle, but it only works in black and white, and page updates are fairly slow. That, however, is going to change.
Ivan Tihienko has created a very impressive concept for how we can use the computer, without having to sit in front of it. He is envisioning a holographic projection system that place the projected image in front of us as we go about our business.
The Astonishing Tribe, a Swedish company that specializes in creating mobile interfaces, have been experimenting with different kinds locking and unlocking mechanism on mobile phones. Interesting (well, some of them...)
People are always a making a lot of fun and interesting concepts. Some of them have real potentials, some are just extremely cool and then there are concepts like this one, which is something we all want, but are not going to get anytime soon.
A number of my readers have pointed me towards Swype. It is a new way to input text on touch based devices, such as phones and tablet PC's. Instead of tapping your finger on each character you simple swipe over each character in a word. The software will then translate the path you made into words.
The whole field of Augmented Reality (where we mix the virtual world with the physical one) is simply mind-boggling. And you don't have to be a scientist to explore its potentials. All you need is a PlayStation 3, and buy the PlayStation Eye, which is basically just a good web camera. What you can then do is to play games like the ones in the video below.
One of the most important tools for people in my industry is Adobe's Creative Suite. I probably use Photoshop more than any other product. And today is the day adobe released CS4.
The fashion industry is one of the fastest moving businesses in terms of new trends, but the new trends are mostly in the details. The colors, the material, and the dimensions - that sort of thing. It is actually quite rare to see new innovative things designed specifically for the fashion industry.
Today, Google officially launched its contribution to the browser market, with its new browser "Google Chrome". I will not go into all the details about it, because I already wrote about it here, but I will talk a bit about the performance.
Google is working on something called Google Chrome. In short, it is how Google is going to fix the browser. Take a look for yourself, this looks mighty interesting.
Braid is a new game on XBOX Live Marketplace. It was something I bought because I was bored, but I was completely blown away. It is fabulous.
KDDI AU and Yamaha have been exploring how to get music into a mobile phone. You might think that this has been done before; every mobile phone can play music - right? But not like this. This is not about listening to music. Instead it is about creating music.
Researchers at MPI Informatik have developed a new kind of lens that pushes the boundaries of what you can do with images.
Mozilla Labs is asking us for help determining how we are going to use the browser in the future. Aza Raskin came out with his vision about a month ago, and now Adaptive Path has made theirs.
It is amazing that what used to be science fiction is now pretty much reality. The inventions have already been made, the innovative ideas have been put forward, the technology is more than capable, and the cost is not a problem either. So what is the problem? Why don't we yet live in the sci-fi future we dream of?
Researchers from University of Washington have developed a technique to drastically enhance video clips using high-res photos taken of the same scene.
Robert Winter (and colleagues) has looked at how the next generation GPS's could work on devises such as the iPhone 3G. And it has a number of nice features to it.
Water is a very common thing, and not surprisingly it is also the subject of many interactive experiments. Here are some of them.
Have you ever wanted to have your very own multi-touch table? So far this has been an extremely expensive endeavor, but now you can get a "do-it-yourself" multi-touch kit.
Aza Raskin, the user experience chief of Mozilla Labs, have published a video about how he envisions Firefox on a mobile phone equipped with a touch screen.
Opel is introducing a new safety technology that reads the traffic signs and displays them on your instrument panel in your car.
We were all amazed when the Wii controller came onto the market. The ability to swing a virtual tennis racket, play golf or bowling similar to the way we do it in real life was quite spectacular. But a company called Softkinetic has taken this a step further. Now you don't need a controller at all.
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