Happy Birthday GIF
The GIF, celebrates its 25th birthday. Watch the PBS Off Book feature celebrating the file format.
The segment about Cinemagraphs is fantastic.
Example GIFs from Cinemagraphs.com
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
But I love instapaper
Designed by the fantastic people at Teehan + Lax
Solving the touchscreen delay problem
Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group is working on new technologies that improve touchscreen input response time:
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.
An Internet Thing
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.
Taming Light – Experimenting with the Light Spectrum
Taming Light is series of photographic experimentation by Alan Jaras. Hidden in the depths of space is a vast experimental light field.
Phaidon Books iPadized
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.
Mag+ Tablet UI Design Concept
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.
TRON is Back
The TRON Guy must have something up his sleeve for the premiere.
Release Date USA: 17 December 2010. TRON: LEGACY is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski. Cast includes Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, James Frain, Beau Garrett and Michael Sheen.