“Since refining the FTIR (frustrated total internal reflection) sensing technique, we’ve been experimenting with a wide variety of application scenarios and interaction modalities that utilize multi-touch input information. These go far beyond the “poking” actions you get with a typical touchscreen, or the gross gesturing found in video-based interactive interfaces. It is a rich area for research, and we are extremely excited by its potential for advances in efficiency, usability, and intuitiveness. It’s also just so much fun!“

it sure looks like it. the new ideas like the slingshot are awesome. let’s hope not everything here is going to be locked away in the corporate patent safe…

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inspired by the nulooq, a little rant about radial (or sliced-cake) menus. read the rest »

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the nulooq is a input device that is used in addition to a mouse or pen. the top operates similar to the ipod’s scroll/click-wheel while the base is more like a jog dial, used in video editing. the device was developed by logitech and works in conjunction with adobe creative suite 2: illustrator, photoshop and indesign. when interacting with the top part, a radial menu appears on screen displaying the software’s tools. the dial on the sides can be used to zoom or adjust sliders, like layer opacity for instance.
i haven’t tried it yet but it’s nice to see some innovation in this area, especially that adobe is involved: it feels like they have been sitting on their hands for the last 6 years turning creativity and innovation in for big business (like selling pdf to fortune 500 companies). their ageing interface implementations have been challenged by programs like apple’s motion and others that really take advantage of more modern operating systems’s features.

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the swiss bank held a design contest for the new bank notes
this is what the current notes look like.
the contest winners:
1. Krebs Manuel, Zürich
2. Pfrunder Manuela, Zürich
3. Woodtli Martin, Zürich

the rest of the submissions in alphabetical order:
ackermann davide, lugano
baldinger andré, paris
galizinski markus, zürich
grüninger hans, zürich
lehmann aude, zürich
metthoevel andréas, biel
oberholzer sabina, cevio
renner michael, basel

the whole page in german

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oooweee! this is too cute! squeal!
7 fashionable eggs “come into my tummy, oh so very yummy”
don’t miss the “egg song” and go through the roof (-o*)

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no, you can’t put all those wires underground; there’s already too many subways and shopping malls down there (^^)

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controls to adjust your comfort level in trains of czechia, france, germany.
why did the germans have to stick a lightbulb icon on top of a lightbulb icon?

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deep in the soma district of san francisco, there is…

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