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A Google engineer has developed a solar-powered data display for Google calendar information to use as signage in Google’s offices outside of their conference rooms (to display meeting schedules). It uses an ultra lower-power Cholesteric LCD display which can operate on energy generated from indoor light. Aaron Spangler, the engineer, claims on the video that […]
Tellart’s NADA Mobile was launched a few months ago. Since then, the Tellart folks have released the source code under an open source license, so you can use it to build your own iPhone applications using Apple’s Dashcode as your development environment: NADA Mobile is a suite of applications, originated at Tellart in 2008, for […]
Andrew Savikas just showed me how to buy and read O’Reilly books on an iPhone or iPod touch. I was thrilled to see that Getting Started with Arduino was available. It looks great. And the book doesn’t require any soldering, so you can (mostly) safely leave your iPhone on your workbench as you try out […]
Noah Zerkin sent us a vid to his current project. It’s a wireless inertial data glove rig, built with an Arduino- and Processing-based motion capture system for use in creative interaction, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), etc. It’s built entirely with parts from Sparkfun and RadioShack. He writes: The thing that makes this special […]
Here’s a fascinating video demo of Dasher, a single finger interface that allows you to enter text without a keyboard. Single-finger input without a keyboard? Wait, that’s my iPhone. Keyboards are inefficient for two reasons: they do not exploit the redundancy in normal … all » language; and they waste the fine analogue capabilities of […]
The folks at Maximum PC made their own multitouch Surface system: It all started while we were researching an article on future user interfaces. Touch interfaces are hardly futuristic at this point, but multi-touch hardware like the Microsoft Surface or the iPhone is just starting to become a big deal, and we decided to see […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Aimino is conducting some very interesting experiments accessing the the real world via conventional computing interfaces. Arduino is employed for physical device control while an additional machine runs PTAM image processing software determines camera position. The above demo alone is entertaining/intriguing the concept seems to have much potential. Unfortunately Edit->Undo […]
