14 Year Old Builds Communication Device for Brain-Injured Friend
Try not to get anything in your eye as you hear this moving story of a teen helping an injured friend communicate with the world again.
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Getting Started with VR: Tools and Materials for Creating Custom Interfaces
With virtual reality you can really get wild with your game interfaces. Spaceship control panels? Easy. An actual parachute harness? Awesome.
Build a Touchless 3D Tracking Interface with Everyday Materials
Using a variety of low- and high-tech components, we’ll show you how to build A Touchless 3D Tracking Interface.
Minority Report-style web surfing with Kinect
It’s amazing to see all the fantastic Kinect demos popping up everywhere. Just goes to show you that people will go out of their way to do fun things with a product if it’s truly innovative. Take, for instance, this demo from MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group who’ve created a Chrome browser extension, called DepthJS, that uses a gesture interface to control a standard web browser using a Microsoft Kinect controller. If you view the accompanying video I’m sure you’ll agree that the effect is strikingly similar to the touch-free UI from the movie Minority Report. I’m not sure if it’s the most efficient method to interface with a browser, but I think it has to be one of the coolest
Design Space Q+A: Sony Ericsson
Next up in our Design Space series we visited interface designer George Arriola at the San Francisco Sony Ericsson office. George was kind enough to draw back the curtain and permit a peek into one of the most secretive and innovative telecommunication industries — mobile phones. Come take a look with us. No NDA required!
Squeezable mobile device interface
Synaptics’ Fuse prototype demonstrates novel input methods for mobile devices. Squeeze, grip, flex, or tilt to interact with the device using various Synaptics technologies.
R1 tactile radio prototype
The user interface to the R1 radio is both familiar and unique. Roll up and down for volume or scroll left to right to tune. It’s brilliant in its simplicity and rather stylish in a contoured minimalist design.
