Mark Micire of UMass Lowell is a forward thinking dude. Right now, most of us don’t even have one robot, let alone a swarm. But someday, we’ll be tripping over ‘em! Micire’s multitouch interface will help keep them in line. More »
The Swype text entry interface that’s been tearing up Android phones, World Records and maybe iPhones was spotted doing more of the same on a large touchscreen at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference. Spoiler: It looks like Swype, but bigger: More »
Bag-based? Sack-based? Balloon-based? Balloon-boy-based? There’s no shortage of ways to describe Microsoft Research’s new tactile interface concept, which lets people interact with prods, pokes, massages and squeezes instead of clicks or taps. More »
newVideoPlayer("/P3Twitter.flv", 506, 423,""); Stupid hands, always getting the glory for all of the hard work that originates with me. Now, fingers, feel your tragic irrelevance as I tweet with electric elegance without your pitiful clumsiness!
God, it’s been years since this concept surfaced. BumpTop, the 3D, physics-enabled, extremely literal take on a desktop manager is finally available for download. It looks… well, it looks as interesting as it ever did.
Nokia has always held the line that the reason their top-end N-series has yet to see any sign of a touch-based interface was because they were simply waiting to “do it the right way.” (The company’s first all-touch device, the 5800, was made official only a few months ago). All’s fair there, but when I asked Nokia’s Chief Designer Alastair Curtis this week in New York what exactly the “right way” entails for Nokia’s more internationally focused phones, the answer was, of course, “wait and see!” What did come up indirectly, though, was mention of gesture control for mobile phones–something a recent Nokia patent seems to indicate as well.
