The Newspaper Tablet Concepts: http://bit.ly/aCtamO (by @baekdal ).The newspaper industry is falling over themselves in the fight to come up with a ever more impressive newspaper tablet. The problem is that they miss the point completely (as I wrote about in "The Future of News, Tablets, and Business Models").
The future of news is not a fancy interactive versions of each newspaper. It's a more engaging and information friendly personal news aggregator. Or a personal, augmented, social RSS reader on steroids. One that is about news and not newspapers.
We are all waiting for the mythical Apple tablet, but I actually think that you should be watching Amazon instead. All they need to do is to create a personal RSS reader, for the Kindle, and combine that with a little layout magic.
But all these concepts are really pretty. Just take a look below:
The Mag+ concept is created by Berg, for Bonnier Magazines. Looks good, except that they are only using a very small part of the screen for the actual text. It's not very scalable in that format.
Again, very pretty - but too focused on just a single news source. This would not work with news for many different sources. The layout controls the content, not the other way around.
Not as pretty as the other ones. mainly because it is merely the print layout on a tablet. They are not using the power of the screen or touch. And they apparently asked the CEO's 12 year old nephew to play some music...
Not exactly a newspaper tablet, but Microsoft's concept comes much closer to what the future of tablet will really be like.
Of course, this article wouldn't be complete without the Sun tablet... :)
Here is a brilliant idea. What if your furniture could react intelligently to your presence and anticipate when you need it. Or what if it could move out of your way out of the way when you are just passing by? What if your furniture could help out in social situation? Wouldn’t that be something?
There are many online image editors. Like Picnik (which was recently bought by Google), Pixlr, Aviary Phoenix, Photoshop online and many others. All them require that you go to their website to edit your images. Wouldn't it be interesting if you could bring the online image editor into your own web apps.?
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.
Earlier this week Penguin presented their vision for how they could translate their book into the ebook format. Or rather, how they can really make us of digital publishing to create much better books.
Remember Microsoft Surface? You know, the big multi-touch coffee table? Now Microsoft is working on a much smaller version with Mobile Surface.
Today, Microsoft announced "Windows Phone 7 Series", featuring a completely new edition to the long infamous Windows Mobile operating system. It looks modern, polished, graphically exciting and nothing like the tiny windows 95 that we have been used to seeing.
As you probably know, both Google and Microsoft have entered into a partnership with Twitter and is now incorporating social search into their regular search engines. This is a big deal because social is a very important element of the future of search... it's not the only part though.
Wouldn't you like to mix wild hand gestures, cute birds flying around your screen, Twitter, tweeting bird sounds, and your web camera? Well, now you can with Flyar.
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.
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