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Touchable Holography, an Emerging Technology

Posted on 11. Aug, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Mid-air displays have been seen in Science Fiction movies for several decades. As an example of this interactive holographic experience, the recreational “Holodeck” in Star Trek, instantly springs to mind. While holograms already exist as virtual objects hovering in front of the user, you cannot touch and feel this object. However, amazingly the University of [...]

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Caution: 5 Common Usability Testing Mistakes to Avoid

Posted on 15. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Usability testing is not an easy thing to perfect. However, a good starting point is to identify where most mistakes are made throughout the process. And through this awareness, you should fine-tune your approaches to planning, moderation and analysis, in order to attain truly insightful findings. 1. Recruiting Unsuitable Participants It’s vital that you validate a design through the eyes of [...]

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20 User Experience Books you should own

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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These highly recommended user experience books cover everything from user research and interface design, to information architecture and UX strategy. If you’re really serious about your career as a user experience professional, these books should be the cornerstone of your personal library. What are your top 5 User Experience books? Subject To Change: Creating Great Products [...]

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Designing the Palm Pre: An interview with Michelle Koh

Posted on 04. Jun, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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It’s the question on everyone’s lips these days. Is the Palm Pre going to make an impact large enough to save both Palm and Sprint? We shall see how this plays out once the anticipated savior descends to earth on June 6, 2009 AD. But launching alone will not a savior make. Rather, Palm’s destiny [...]

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VisionAire Multi-touch Holograms

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Obscura Digital has teamed their special multi-touch software with the Musion Eyeliner Hologram Projection System to produce an amazing interactive tool for presenters to use whereby they can manipulate 3-D holographic images in the air. Aptly called VisionAire, the single or multiple users can shrink, zoom and turn the images by simply moving their hands. [...]

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Nintendo Wii 2.0: A mind-controlled console

Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Moving away from sloppy remotes, Nintendo Wii is entering the brainwave era with a slick mind-controlled console. At least this is the thrilling desire of hi-tech dreamers over at T3 Magazine who want to see jaws dropping and brain cells working their way through gaming. The ground-breaking concept, part of the magazine’s future tech feature, [...]

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Text-to-Voice Wand: The "Voice Stick"

Posted on 01. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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The ‘Voice Stick’ concept enters to revolutionize the life of the visually impaired and offer a breath of fresh high-tech air to script recognition. Designed by Sung Woo Park, the cutting-edge device is a portable text scanning tool, utilizing the OCR function to identify text and convert this information into voice. This advanced technology allows [...]

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Nano Ink "Tattoos": the next user interface?

Posted on 17. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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A special tattoo ink that changes color based on glucose levels inside the skin is under development by Massachusetts-based Draper Laboratories. The injectable nanotech ink could eventually free diabetics from painful blood glucose tests. “It doesn’t have to be a large, over-the-shoulder kind of tattoo,” said Heather Clark, a scientist at Draper. “It would only [...]

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Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device

Posted on 09. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Amazon will releasee its 2nd version of the Kindle on 2/24/2009, and what’s really interesting is how Amazon is not calling it an “e-book reader”, but rather a “wireless reading device”. It certainly sounds more sophisticated and might compel customers to cough up the $359 being asked. Kindle 2 features: Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, [...]

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Apple working on 3D Mac OS X user interface

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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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 [...]