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Mozilla Labs: Ubiquity Updated

Posted on 08. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

Ubiquity has just been updated, giving it a significant speed bump over previous versions. Check out the complete overview here >
Ubiquity’s goals are to:

Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.)
Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing [...]

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Apple working on 3D Mac OS X user interface

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal the Mac maker has spent a considerable amount of time outlining a new multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that would make better use of screen real estate by increasing the number of virtual surfaces capable of housing application and interface elements.
View full article here, [...]

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Superbowl.com is alive and twittering!

Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

Thanks to major redesign efforts, we have a much improved Superbowl.com for this season. Again, please pass on your comments, thoughts, likes and dislikes.
Check it out: http://www.superbowl.com
Also, we’ve setup a twitter account to provide on-the-fly commentary behind the scenes.
Check that out: http://twitter.com/SuperBowl

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Seattle Seahawks & Buffalo Bills websites go live

Posted on 25. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

Albeit a late announcement, the newly redesigned and rearchitected Seattle Seahawks and Buffalo Bills websites have gone live. These are the first two websites we’ve  rolled onto the new NFL clubs platform, which will eventually house all 32 clubs. 
I welcome all feedback, as the platform will be an entity of on-going evolution and enhancement.
Take a look [...]

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Robot developed with non-verbal communications skills

Posted on 30. Oct, 2007 by Bradley Hebdon.

Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology have developed a humanoid bot that can use communicate using gestures. The 187-pound robot stands about five feet tall and uses a 3D vision system to recognize gestures like pointing and bowing and determine their meaning — and then use the same gestures when appropriate.

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U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi Virtual Humanoid

Posted on 28. Oct, 2007 by Bradley Hebdon.

Destined to support you in your state of involuntary abstinence, the U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi system maps a pretty girl onto the robot’s anatomically correct, green-cloth surface with the help of a sensor-equipped head-mounted display worn by the lonely, lonely man. The result is a 3D character you can touch and “interact” with. Researcher Michihiko Shoji hopes that [...]

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