One of the biggest problems with touch interfaces is simulating physics well enough to fool the brain’s perception systems. When a physical action you make with your finger does not lead to the response your brain has learned to expect in the physical world, something feels very wrong. It doesn’t feel genuine. Thankfully, Windows Phone does a much better job at this than Android; Microsoft is clearly thinking about this stuff.
Internet of Things are uniquely identifiable objects (things) and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure. And here is an awesome example from the fella’s over at Breakfast. It brings a physical interaction to the like or dislike of music from Last.fm or Pandora.
I have to make the assumption that the Phaidon Design Classic will not be the last of their publications to be converted to iPad/e-Book form. It’s amazing that once was/still is three(3) enormous volumes fits into your hand at just under a pound.
Magazines have articles you can curl up with and lose yourself in, and luscious photography that draws the eye. And they’re so easy and enjoyable to read. Can we marry what’s best about magazines with the always connected, portable tablet e-readers sure to arrive in 2010?
This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners at BERG.
A timelapse dance video. Etude No. 1 in a series of studies in sound and movement.
Music………………………….gloobic
Choreography & Dance…..Eric Gunther
Director of Photography….Jeff Lieberman
Editing………………………..Eric Gunther & Jeff Lieberman
Yesterday was the end of the February Design Sprawl Project, a collage of all the entries received will be displated at fractal for March’s ArtDetour on March 6th.