"We need to think beyond the screen and find ways to present information and ideas in a way that people can interact with in a more exciting way."
"The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that’s at least 10 times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter. The second thing that any technology startup must do is to take the market. If it’s possible to do something 10X better, it’s also possible that you won’t be the only company to figure that out. Therefore, you must take the market before somebody else does. Very few products are 10X better than the competition, so unseating the new incumbent is much more difficult than unseating the old one."
— Horowitz
Mailbox is no Google Wave. It’s a simplistically brilliant reinvention of the inbox experience, optimizing touch on mobile to create a “why didn’t I think of that” level of intuitive interaction. I find myself “trying” to move stationary things on my mobile touchscreen that feel like they should be dynamic, and am frustrated with unresponsive navigation. Mailbox gets it.
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Stunning - watch in 1080p, full-screen. Japanese artist and producer Daito Manabe teamed up with California-based musician and producer Nosaj Thing with support from The Creators Project.
"Disruption happens. It happens quickly and perhaps most quickly in this industry, and looking at trailing indicators like revenues and profits is of no help. I’ve only witnessed sharp expansions and sharp declines. I’ve never witnessed steady state, quiescent markets in technology. The history of platforms is always virtuous cycles followed by vicious declines. Whatever amplifies success seems to also amplify failure."
Interactive real-time projection uses face-detection software to generate live comic line drawings of people to incorporate directly into the comic strip - brilliance! New York-based artist Nova Jiang collaborated with Jake Jefferies on this interactive digital installation titled ‘Ideogenetic Machine’ which uses a camera to capture participants in real-time. The face-detection software is used to insert blank speech bubbles into the narrative.
Other hand-drawn comics are also added in between to fill the comic and generate unique comics. The content depicts a hypothetical story based on current news and events. The installation will be displayed at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art in Taichung, Taiwan from 12 October through to 23 December, 2012.
While there are some pretty impressive multi-touch interfaces out there, turning the surface of a plant (yes, you read that correctly), into a multi-touch interface is definitely something quite unique and fresh. The generative visualizations from the interactions are beautiful; and while no particularly practical applications have been developed yet, this concept from Disney research definitely opens the door for other unique interfaces.
“The “world’s first” deformable tactile surface capable of creating dynamic physical buttons that users can actually see and feel in advance of entering data into the device, Tactus uses microfluidic technology to create physical buttons that rise from the touchscreen to give users the experience or feeling of operating a physical keyboard. When no longer needed, the buttons recede back into the touchscreen, leaving no trace of their presence. The Tactile Layer panel is a completely flat, transparent, dynamic surface that adds no extra thickness to the standard touchscreen display since it replaces a layer of the already existing display stack.” -TG Daily
Whoa, a dynamic, physically transforming surface? Incredible implications here - imagine having tables, walls, or doors with “hidden” buttons that can emerge from the surface when called upon.
L’Oreal Paris’ latest app make recommendations of colors based on the users’ outfit of the day. Users can take a photograph, then choose makeup to match it, blend it or clash it. By taking a photograph of their outfit and selecting what type of matching they want (hot pink or nude lips with a neutral gray dress?), the app automatically generates a list of suggested makeup colors that go with the outfit. Genius.
