g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
The New York Times' Bits Blog reports that John Underkoffler, a science consultant for Minority Report, has worked for the last decade with his company, Oblong Industries, to take the gesture-activated interface from the screen to, well, the screen. Underkoffler unveiled the interface, called the g-speak Spatial Operating Environment, at Friday's annual TED conference.
The interface has been tested for a number of applications, from virtual pottery-making at RISD, where you watch a user create a digital wire-frame pot as if using a spinning wheel, to the more intangible Tangible Media Group at MIT, where the g-stalt interface allows the user to "manipulate complex data sets with the hands".
Several computer, PC and console makers are already getting ready to release gesture-based interfaces and consumers should start seeing them sometime within the next year, according to the Times.
Source:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/minority_report_in_your_living_room_gestural_inter.php
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Sikuli is a new app that makes automating as simple as taking screenshots, if you watch the video below, you’ll truly know how oldschool macros now are. Instead of programming actions, all you have to do is put screenshots of the particular UI items that you want to automate in a list and then the app will use visual cues to do whatever you want it to do. Not only does it make things much easier when actually writing scripts, but it also gives you countless options in terms of automation.
Sikuli can automate any app that has a graphical user interface, because all it has to do is recognise that GUI on your screen. That includes web apps too, Sikuli is a MIT project which means it is completely freeware and supports Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Find out more here…
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Source:
http://creativity-online.com/news/wow-addlib/141930
The company recently integrated the tech into Fashionista, which originally enabled shoppers to try on clothes virtually using AR and then send images of their outfitted selves to their friends. Now, with ZugStar, friends can try clothes on together, kind of like being in the same virtual dressing room.
But ZugStar doesn't stop there. As seen in this demo video, the tech can also be applied to other areas such as hospitality, medicine, gaming, education and more. "Our plan is to integrate this tech not only into the shopping application but also to look at creating other prototypes," says Zugara CEO Matthew Szymczyk.
Source:
http://creativity-online.com/news/zugara-zugstar/141929
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
The World's Biggest Signpost from adghost on Vimeo.
To Promote Nokia's Maps feature and to make a presence in the already cluttered market of Navigation Guiding Products, NOKIA came up with a very simple IDEA. The World's Biggest Signpost digitally guiding you to your destination.
A 50 meter tall interactive structure that points out people’s favourite locations all around the world. You could submit your location either trough your phone or by dropping a pin on the Good Things map, and within moments the 60 ton structure turned and pointed out the direction and distance to your location. Brilliant!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
BBH London has released a series of funny mobile apps as part of the Lynx “Get In There” Campaign. The first one, shown above is called “Say Cheese” and the mobile app lets you take a photo but automatically show an alternate pic of your choice after the photo is taken.
Below are two other app demos, “Spin The Bottle” where you can actually fix who you’d like it to land on and another mobile app called “Perfect Man Revealed” where ladies can fill out the key attributes they’d like in a man, from which the app then scans a database of relevant people only to find you!
Source:
http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/lynx-effect-mobile-apps/
In support of Nike and (RED)™’s partnership they launched a new campaign called: “Lace Up Save Lives” approach to fight HIV/ AIDS in Africa. Crossing the boundary between the different sports, a more representative group of world class athletes teamed up to raise awareness on the AIDS.
Didier Drogba, Andrei Arshavin, Clint Dempsey, Denilson, Marco Materazzi, Javier Mascherano, Fabio Cannavaro, Maria Sharapova and Kobe Bryant using the laces on their feet, hands and as a ball in the movie and want to encourage fans around the globe to join the Lace Up Save Lives.
Source:
http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/nike-red-lace-up-save-lives/
