Why poke your fingers repeatedly into a keyboard crawling with dust, germs and skin flakes beneath the keys when you could jab them into any flat (antibiotic-infused) surface you wish? The Magic Cube from Celluon is just the magical device you’ve been dreaming of. Of course, you can’t wear it like other devices and it’s not a helpful robot friend, but it is compact and works with just about any Bluetooth device.
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I think you’d agree. There’s just not enough visual clutter surrounding us as we go about our daily lives. It would be so much better if we were surrounded by an orb of interface efficiency.
Fortunately, there are people thinking the very same thing, but not only thinking it… creating it and putting together 3D videos to show just what it would be like. Keiichi Matsuda is augmenting his reality to show you how yours may be augmented in the future. Put your anaglyph glasses on.
Imagine sliding your hand… across a bed of scorpions. Then stop doing that, relax your neck tendons and imagine sliding your hand across the smooth transition of a touch interface that flows from vertical to horizontal. Ahhhhhhh. It’s like buttery rays of light coating your fingertips. Really, take a look.
The Media Computing Group, researching graphical user interfaces (GUI’s) out of Aachen, Germany, is LITERALLY stretching the possibilities across your workspace with the Bend Desk. It’s a concept, but with the work they’ve already done on the UI, you can bet it’s going to draw some interest for 3D modeling and graphic creators. I’m sold. How bad do you want one?
With all the touchscreen craziness we’ve seen over the past few years, there are about 500 direction future screen technology could go. Personally, I won’t be satisfied until they’re formable, edible and can be wrapped around my face like a make-shift Halloween mask.
Some people have other ideas, and the perfect organization to compile them all into one meaty video presentation is TAT. TAT knows 3D user interface design. They not only conceptualize fancy interfaces, their technology is currently used in 20% of all touch phones.
They recently held the TAT Open Innovation experiment. They gathered comments, ideas, dreams and wishes ranging from enhancing mobile interaction to embedding screen tech into every aspect of your life… Face it. You can’t escape. They even think we’ll see this technology by 2014. Here’s the video and the highlights. What’s your vote for new screen tech?
Don’t you dare touch my 3D parts! Oh. you just want to virtually touch them with haptic feedback… nope, that’s still a little out of my comfort zone.
Not so for the researchers at UC San Diego. While they’re not researching researchable research, they’re building cool tech to make it easier. In a recent adventure, they went to Wal-mart, bought a Samsung 3D TV and set it up in the lab with a mirror projecting back into the screen and a Novint haptic feedback controller. The results are a heads-ups VR display that allows direct interaction with the image.
Your measly, little common pens are about to become insanely jealous. You may have warned them that smartpens were a comin’ but being the arrogant pens that they are, they simply taunted you with ink leaks and repeated trips to the stock cabinet.
Now, they’ll take notice. The Livescribe Echo Smartpen is showing it’s face and it’s nothing but computerific possibility wrapped in a chunky looking exterior. What’s even more interesting is the possibilities of using it in design applications, from graphics design to 3D product development.
We’re just seeing the beginning of these getting some more advanced functionality, but I’ve got no doubt they’ll be part of how we interface with paper and space in the coming years. Take a look.
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If you felt a rumble in the aether that ended up with a guy suddenly appearing in your face poking your eyeballs with a tablet computer, you’re probably not dreaming and you’re probably not holding back a good solid punch to his gut.
Neither is Timothy Barnard of Fresh Design Base, a Manchester, UK web design firm and creator of SitePAD. He created SitePAD (Pocket Aided Design) to “extend your office capabilities onsite” via your mobile device and provide a way to share the data through an online interface with your team members.
It’s not only the first CAD app on the iPhone and iPad, but is taking direct aim at developing a 3D version and defining what subscription-based CAD apps and touchscreen functionality will be like. We discussed the product with Tim and got the low-down on why he created it and how it helps in design.
Look at the guy outside your window swatting a swarm of wasps away from his exposed skin areas. Now look at the guy in the cubicle next to you using Leonar3do 3D. Both look similar except one is screaming and swelling up while the other is smiling and creating 3D object… in 3D space.
You may have seen Leonar3do a few months back. But recently, we caught up with Dániel Rátai and Zoltan Karpati, a couple of the guys behind the VR tech, to find out a little more about their product and how they think it could impact 3D mechanical design.
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Think about this. A vest that allows you to receive a massage AND acts as a device to manipulate video game play, or in our case, 3D geometry. Are you feelin’ it!?
Well, before you get excited and tell your friends to cozy up behind you, think about this… are they certified to be developing products via the tight knots in your lower spinal region. hmm, I think not. Nevertheless, they can thanks to some creative Austrians from the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz.
The concept is called Massage Me and if you can’t wait for it to hit the stores, you can go DIY or host your own design massage par-tay. YES.
Stop. I’m telling you right now, you can quit using the excuse that you shave your body for swimming and bike riding adventures as a cover-up for your camouflage body painting hobby. Instead, you can now tell everyone that your body is being prepped as a touchpad of epic proportion.
We’re stuffing every oversize pore with the idea of projected UI wherever you go, but the latest Human-Computer Interaction experiment from Chris Harrison called Skinput turns your skin into an input device that’s hard to tear off.
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