Category: Interaction Design
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Sound Sensitive Virtual Touchpad
Imagine being able to turn any surface into a touch tablet – think of the possibilities. Walls. Tables. Your partner. Hmm… OK, stop thinking about that now and go read about (and watch) how some clever types over in Europe have used sonar type methods to ‘hear’ the location of a writing device on wood.…
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The Zen of Jobs
This is an old article, but interesting in its comparison of Steve Jobs presentation style compared to Bill Gates. Sleek, minimal & to the point are the slides of Jobs, cluttered, confusing and visually painful are those of Gates. Partially I find this interesting because Jobs has not really changed his presentation style since the…
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Launchy – Speed up your life
Launchy is a simple little Windows app that lets you start up applications in an auto-complete, command line idiom – rather than searching through menus or scrambling around your desktop. Once installed and started, you simply press Alt and space together and a window pops up over the top of your screen into which you…
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Adddress at gmail
Gmail, or ‘Googlemail‘ as it’s known in the British isles, has offered up another of it’s clever features to me today. Not only is it by far the cleanest, most usable web email out there but they also let you do weird and whacky things with your mail address. First up – periods/full stops are…
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How long is a piece of meat?
This morning, as I prepared to burn my usual morning cheese & ham on toast, I was struck by how important appearence is to how much you enjoy something. This line of thought was triggered by the ham, thinly sliced from my local deli and nicely wrapped in a plastic sheet. Originally these ten thing…