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Google May Be Making Their User Interfaces Look Halfway Decent

2:12AM Jesus Diaz | Engadget got a few screenshots of what may be the user interface for all Google web applications, from Gmail to Google’s search itself. As you can see in these images, they may adopt Google Wave’s look. More »
Screens

Microsoft Research Demos Touchless, Transparent Glass Display

11:51PM Rosa Golijan | Microsoft’s research division is doing tours across university campuses and rather than turning them into snoozefests they’re showing off an incredibly prototype. It’s a clear glass display which accepts input through voice control, touchless gestures, pen and eye-tracking. More »
Software

Video: Concept Symbian UI Blends AR Maps, Social Networking

1:12AM Danny Allen | The flashy concept was shown at the Symbian Foundation’s SEE 2009 keynote last month and actually looks pretty cool. But is it too little too late? More »
Software

HTC’s “Virtual Book” UI Patent Could Be Sense UI’s Successor

4:30AM Chris Jacob | HTC’s new UI patent that “organises applications, widgets, and web pages into pages of a virtual book” may “borrow” a few ideas from Palm, but it’s cool with me. I’m all for a snazzier version of Pre’s card system. More »
Entertainment

TiVo Now Pushing The Freeview Mantra

3:56PM Nick Broughall | If you own a TiVo, you’ll probably notice a slight change happening over the next week or so, as the option to “Watch TV” is twisted to instead say “Watch Freeview”. Confusion FTW!! More »
Gadgets

You Can Tell This Coffee Maker To Do Anything But Make Coffee

4:20AM Mark Wilson | Here’s a fantastic idea for a product: A coffee maker that responds to voice commands…just not a voice command to “make me some freaking coffee!” More »
Software

UBar Makes Mac OS X Into A Windows Transvestite

6:20AM Jesus Diaz | uBar is an application that adds a Windows task bar to Mac OS X. Why? No, seriously, WHY? More »
Phones

Mid-Range HTC Mega Screens Have A Whiff Of Sense

6:00AM Jack Loftus | It’s a tale of two phone UIs this afternoon. First we saw Samsung’s whizzed up Omnia II doing what it does, and now a bevy of HTC Mega shots have surfaced too. More »
Phones

HTC Hero’s Sense UI Comes to iPhone as a Jailbroken Theme

11:57AM Dan Nosowitz | Have a jailbroken iPhone but long for the exciting new Sense UI seen on the HTC Hero? A new theme brings Sense to the iPhone, though the skin is, unfortunately, only skin-deep. More »