Disney Research presents Touché, demonstrating that touch interactions don’t have to be limited to an on/off detection on glass, but rather any type of touch on any type of surface.
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Corning released a follow up to their ‘A Day Made of Glass’, demoing the future of touchscreen technology.
Here’s Part 1 with 17.5 million views as of this posting:
ZeroTouch is an optical multi-touch technique using infrared sensors. It can be mounted over a desktop, computer screen, or hang in the air.
With the ability to detect 20+ fingers and track objects in free space, this opens up a whole new world of interaction possibilities!
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Apple recently released an iAd gallery to the App store where you can get some examples of the latest and greatest iAds to interact with & show creatives.
And if you’re on Android, AdMob has an app for you too.
A great tool for viewing design comps on your iPhone—take the mystery out of mobile design and view it real-time.
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Innovative furniture design that adds a new kind of flexibility and touch capability to the workspace, created by the Media Computing Group at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany.
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On July 24, 2010, YouTube invited people from all over the world to capture glimpses of their lives on camera and upload them to YouTube. The resulting Life in a Day project, directed by Kevin MacDonald and produced by Ridley Scott, weaves together about 1,000 snapshots of people’s lives — out of over 80,000 total submissions — to create a completely user-generated and powerful documentary of daily life.
Tonight the 90-min feature film premieres at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and streams live on YouTube simultaneously (8 p.m. EST). Google Creative Labs also developed a massive touch screen installation featuring all of the videos, including the thousands not shown in the film, that’s currently on display at Sundance in Park City, Utah.
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Projeqt aims to enable people to share their stories by providing a simple way to create a website viewable on any device. TBWA created the publishing tool and used it to build their own website.
IDEO’s vision of the Future of the Book.
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TAT has produced another video demonstrating the potential future of screen technology has surfaced. This one does a good job showing how any surface can be turned into a touchscreen.
