by amnesia on February 16, 2010
In the last 10, the world has moved into digital. The word “digital” itself underlines the major role of technology. This year our Razorfish team led by our CTO Ray Velez created a report of 5 Technologies that will have great significance this year.
- Cloud services and open APIs will become essential for social brands, making it easier for businesses to tap into the consumer’s social graph.
- Reliance on the cloud’s infrastructure will continue to grow as the need for real-time scalability becomes increasingly critical for survival.
- Multi-touch technology, which has already become mainstream in consumer devices, will infiltrate retail and business environments so extensively that it will become expected.
- Improved hardware and connectivity will help mobile make the final transition into cloud-based data that allows the user to learn the world around her in real time.
- Agile and iterative Web development will open new doors for innovation by allowing developers to innovate and adjust products based on immediate customer feedback.
To read more about it or download the report: http://razorfish5.razorfish.com.
- The Razorfish 5
by stephanlange on January 14, 2010
Ok Ok I don’t know anything about the tablet, but I read this article on crunchgear and FingerWorks, a company Apple bought a few years back, has an interesting patent about how to extend multitouch gestures.
Check out the video where some of them are explained – funnily enough with the help of a Microsoft Surface table.
It’s going to be even more confusing if all that gets implemented.
by stephanlange on December 12, 2009
The MIT Lab has shown off a new kind of display that not only is capable of the usual multitouch functions, but also recognizes gestures in front of the device like we know from minority report.
Pretty cool I say – still a bit slow in the video, but already pretty awesome for a prototype.
found here
by Brady on December 8, 2009
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Pranav Mistry, the genius behind SixthSense, gives a demonstration of the technology and talks about both where it came from and where it’s going.
Recorded at TEDIndia in November, 2009.
Very interesting to see technology that brings the virtual world into the real world instead of the other way around.
by stephanlange on October 26, 2009
Everywhere you go now you see touch interfaces, phones with touch screens, computers based on touch screens, maps in shopping centres are touchscreens and Windows 7 will support multi-touch.
Something we saw in Minority report would give you aching arms after a while and a tablet would just destroy your neck.
So the guys at 10/GUI came up with their own version of the future of Multi-touch and I think it is rather nice. It will take a while to get used to but so did the mouse when it first got introduced.
check out the video:
Here is the site
by stephanlange on September 10, 2009
This 18 x 4 foot “monster” was installed in the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas and it is awesome.
3 HD projectors are beaming the content onto the glass.
but videos say more then words – I want one:
by stephanlange on July 10, 2009
i was doing some research today about Multitouch on Windows 7 and I came across this article here on how to Emulate a multi-touch device for Windows 7.
All you need is a webcam, a cardboard box, some tracing paper and a photo frame.
I thought, surely we have all that in the office somewhere. After a short stroll around the office I was able to gather all of the above and within 1 hour we had it all up and running.
and it works
So I wanted to thank Szymon Kobalczyk for his blogpost and for making my Friday a little bit more exciting.
Now I am even more excited about all the stuff we will be able to do with Windows 7.
by stephanlange on October 22, 2008
Microsofts SideSight research project promises to do away with that pesky need to actually touch the screen. To do that, Microsoft proposes to employ a whole range of proximity sensors around a device, which would be able to detect gestures up to ten centimeters away, with a quick motion towards the device representing a click, for instance, or a twisting motion letting you rotate an image.
While Microsoft has actually built a prototype of sorts using an HTC Touch (seen above), it still has quite a ways to go, as the sensors on the prototype actually just connected to a PC via USB and then relayed back to the phone using Bluetooth. Eventually, however, Microsoft says that the system could allow for multi-touch to be used on very small devices, which could possibly even use printed sensors that would cover the entire casing.
full story here.
