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.
In celebration of the opening of their Mobile Division, digital production shop Pirata released this awesome multiplayer boat racing game that uses iPhones and iPod Touches as controllers.
After downloading the app, users goto this site, sync their devices with their selected team, and start the race.
The Pirata team explains the game in this demo:
Find the app for download here.
Interesting to consider what else might be possible using synced smart phones.
This is useful – “The Touch Gesture Reference Guide is a unique set of resources for software designers and developers working on touch-based user interfaces” by Luke Wroblewski.
You can download the PDF, EPS or Omnigraffle Stencil from his blog here.
At the recent IEEE Haptics Symposium, researchers from McGill unveiled new flooring augmentation technology that takes the notion of ‘walking on thin ice’ to a new level.
The flooring uses projection and sensors to simulate the look and feel of walking on a variety of surfaces from ice to sand. This video, from the researchers’ site, provides a neat demo of the ice and snow surfaces:
It’s a prototype and would probably be really expensive, but imagine what we could do in OOH using haptic flooring and/or feet-guided computer navigation.
More information:
- Source of post: the haptic flooring project, via Technology Review
- Innovations in haptics
Sony recently announced it will begin commercial production of a horizontal touch surface this June. Named the “attracTable,” the device is a pretty cool competitor to the Microsoft Surface….especially since they are working on motion input + mobile devices.
Check out a demo below:
(via engadget)
With much ado about the state of Flash Player and the mobile web, Adobe has released some compelling videos of what its technologies have to offer here and here.
We mentioned Adobe is collaborating with Wired for a digital version of its magazine:
Android, Palm and Blackberry are working with Adobe to fully support Flash as opposed to Apple which has shut the door.
Here’s an example of Silverlight3 Deep Zoom being used in the Air Jordan Mosaic 23/25 site. The web application allows the user to upload photos of themselves with their Air Jordan shoes. Collectively those photos form a larger ‘mosaic’ (containing thousands of images), thus giving the campaign a ‘social’ element.
This technology also has multi-touch capabilities and the ability to interactively view hi-res images. The user can pan and zoom deep into the ‘mosaic’ image, and interact with the images using touch screen technology if the application was running on an in-store kiosk screen for example.
You can find out more here.
Interactive touchscreen prototype by Hush studios and Uncommon Projects. The experience is intended to allow users to interact with real time HD content in a tactile manner, be customizable for any brand and includes iPhone integration so you can use your phone to control and navigate content.
No strings attached. Misa Digital out of Sydney have developed this Touchscreen guitar that uses touch screen technology and open source software to push the physical limitations of the traditional guitar. Rock on!
Some info from it’s creator:
My design aim was for a minimalistic interface, with configurability at the sound module end, leaving the instrument itself simple and effective.
That being said, the Misa digital guitar software is open source, and powered by the Linux operating system. This means programmers have the flexibility to modify how it works, and even change the interface to provide specific functionality. This is important because collaboration from the users themselves, experimenting and innovating in their own ways, will further improve the instrument.
The Misa digital guitar is a MIDI controller. It must be plugged into a MIDI capable sound module. The sound of this instrument is limited only by what you connect to it.
GML is an open source language for storing graffiti gestural data as text that is then archival and reproducible. Here’s a video overview of GML and its applications: