There is no doubt some awesome stuff come out of Microsoft’s Research and Development department but when it comes to handling data and organisation Microsoft falls short against Google and Apple. But as we can see from the video below their new data organisation engine looks like it could be a real game changer. This sort of technology is great at finding what information you want and cross referencing it with other information, I can see this being a real game changer for Wikipedia. This sort of application is very dynamic and could be incorporated as a web app allowing live information to be accessed anywhere in the world with automatic cross referencing. You can download the application today on Windows here.
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I went to London a few days back and tracked down a few interactive shop fronts, only one is worth showing though. The shop front to Phones4U on Oxford Street features an interactive phone, it wasn’t bad if anything limited in functionality but fun and easy to use and great use of advertising and multi-touch.
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I want this! I want this now! This awesome demo shows how inputs from a controller that Microsoft is researching into can accurately read muscular inputs. They demo this technology by playing Guitar Hero!
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Anyone who loves Flash for full on Web experiences should have heard of Disturb Media, based in the heart of London Disturb Media create some of the best examples of design on the web. I haven’t been on there site for a while but hey to me this is all very new, very sleek and best of all very cool. The site features there previous work including the awesome, Twigital that I featured earlier this month! The site background also constantly changes which may seem like a minor feature but it’s the little things that make this site really special. The thing I love most about this site though is the animation between the pages is simply beautiful.
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Why? Well probably just because they can! This tech demo of a Multi-Touch Sphere is an interesting concept which I believe if applied correctly could have some useful and interesting applications, such as a globe and games. With the rise of Multi-Touch technology it will be interesting to see if this sort of technology will make it into day to day life.
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iBar is a 10 meter glass top bar that interacts with glass’s, cups, mobile phones cell phones*, keys, business cards and of coarse your 10 digits. Created and built by MindStorm. The impressive surface gives this bar the edge. All they need do now is to incorporate this into an Ice bar then they can [...]
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G-Speak is developed by Oblong Industries who are true pioneers in the interaction design field. They have developed a tracking system combined with multi-touch and an array of screens to create these remarkable tech demos of what the technology is capable of. This could be used in the real world for handling a large around [...]
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Today is the release of Microsoft’s Windows 7 but compared to the early beta’s not everyone is thrilled about it. Why? I for one think it’s because Microsoft can’t market well at all, with the hundreds of thousands of people who have been beta testing windows including myself the reaction of excitement has slowly drawn [...]
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I recently stumbled upon a concept design called 10/GUI designed by Clayton Miller. There’s little doubt that multi-touch is going to play a larger part in our interaction with computers in the near future, but it has its flaws. Miller has dedicated time into visioning a operating system graphical user interface that is built for [...]
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