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Augmented Reality Navigation
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.»
Opel Eye - Anti-speeding Technology
Opel is introducing a new safety technology that reads the traffic signs and displays them on your instrument panel in your car. »
Direct Manipulation in Videos
A group of people from Toronto University have come up with an ingenious way to manipulate videos. Traditionally this is done using some kind of "bar", but what if you could simply drag each element right in the video itself. »
Photoshop Express Online - it's here!
About a year ago I was told that Adobe was going to create an online version of Photoshop - and that was big news. It is relatively easy to create an online mail application (it is just text), but an online version of Photoshop? That would be a spectacular example of advanced application design. »
Introducing Boom! - The Intelligent Search Assistant
Regular readers know that I always advocate efficiency, and this is definitely no exception. I give you Boom! - a much faster way to search the web. »
Multi-Touch for Your Laptop
You have already seen Microsoft Surface, and the incredible interaction it brings with it. But one of the really big problems (literally) with Microsoft Surface is its size. Wouldn't it be great if you could move the technology to smaller and much thinner devices?»
Shift - Using Small Devices with Fat Fingers
Microsoft Research is looking into an age old problem. How do you hit small targets on phones and PDA's when you got fat fingers? ...or even with regular sized fingers.»
Wireless trough your toilet
He he - a new service from Google - Free in-house wireless broadband internet - trough your toilet»
Introducing: WEB2RSS
RSS feeds are one the things that I really like. It allows me to get the information I want, the way I want it. There is just one problem. Not every site offers an RSS feed, and those that do are not offering the right content. »
Do-It-Yourself Multi-touch kit
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. »
Future of Interaction in Gaming
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.»
Tennis in 2083
Lacoste is celebrating their 75th anniversary with a look another 75 years into the future - or to be more precise - a look at what the game of tennis will be like in 2083.»
IE8 Beta is Out
Internet Explorer 8 (beta) is now available for download, and as I predicted in my web trends "the web community will love it - nobody else will notice any difference."»
Multi-touch Whiteboard - Wii Style
Johnny Chung Lee, from Carnegie Mellon University, is making wonders with his Wii remote. First of all he has turned it into a multi-touch receiver that you can use for whiteboards - or practically any surface you can think of. »
The HD Web
Akamai, the number one provider of high-end hosting (including HD video hosting) and Verizon FiOS (a high-speed ISP) has launched an HD site to showcase the potentials with HD video. »
Make sense of Microsoft's and Adobe's new technologies
Microsoft and Adobe has both been putting out a tremendous amount of new technologies, development tools and varies types of applications. But many people seem to be confused of how they compare to each other - not to mention what function each of them holds. Thankfully Ryan Steward has written an article that makes it much clearer. »
Yahoo messenger WPF showcase
I have been talking a lot about WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), because I think it is really pushing us to make applications at a completely new level of user experience. We see a lot of cool things on the web - but they are all built in this low-definition environment. »
Intelliau Robotic Cat
We have taken the best things about cats, and removed some of the worst. Then we created the world's first life-like robotic cat. Intelliau/2 Robotic Cat will not feel like a robot, it will feel like a real cat.»
Firefox Mobile Concept
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.»
FlixFlex Interaction
This interaction concept by Chris Woebken explores how we can interact by flipping, wrenching or bending the screen - as opposed to using multi-touch or keypads.»
Flickr Video
Flickr has finally opened up for the one thing that, in my opinion, was holding it back - video. »
YouTube - Wiggly Wobbly Blobs?
As you have probably seen, YouTube has changed the way it visualizes related videos. Instead of a nice list, that you can understand, they have created a bunch of blobs?»
90 Adobe Air Applications + 50 Silverlight Applications
There has been a lot of buzz about Adobe Air and Microsoft Silverlight and many people are experimenting with it. Most of these experiments are... well... just "an experiment", but some are actually very cool.»
RobotReplay - a cool way to track mouse movement
Darren Barefoot pointed me towards RobotReplay - yet another tool to measure how people are using your website. »
WEB2DNA - the art project
When you one evening are bored out of your skull, and the only shows on TV are zillion year-old reruns, you get into a mood that can only be described as a Monty Python sketch gone wrong. If you then happen to start your favorite web development application you know that the results will be mad, pointless and utterly useless. »
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