Microsoft’s new super glossy vision of the lifeless future of productivity.
IBM Watson: The Face of Watson (by IBM)
Intelligent Home Screen | Larva Labs
Designed for an Android-based phone, the home screen attempts to bring together the multiple channels, through which information-hungry users keep connected. Watch the video of it in action.
Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense | TED.com
Last month I was thinking that there was something in Nokia’s Point & Find technology. Then I watched Bill Gates’ keynote presentation at CES 2008 and saw a mobile device from Microsoft Research labs that showed off camera-based visual identification. You point the mobile phone’s camera at an object and you are supplied with contextual information about it.
So, this TED video made clear what was actually nagging me. I didn’t want Point & Find, I wanted augmented reality. The device that provides this to me needs to feel natural and not, as Maes explains in the video, something that interrupts what I am doing. The SixthSense proof of concept by MIT’s Media Lab is food for thought. It sounds practicable and ultimately low-cost. It will never be fully unobtrusive. For that you will need a new digital eye, implanted broadband connection and thought-controlled input device.
Future Vision Montage | MSN Video
Microsoft popped in to present some of their current technologies on Wednesday. This touched on Azure Services Platform, Office Communications Server, Windows 7, Microsoft Surface, Deep Zoom, Microsoft Tag, and Live Mesh. As it was the DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism) team, you can imagine what the tone of the presentation was like.
Some of the current tech was quite interesting but it was the future vision stuff (see video) that actually started to inspire. The video gives us a glimpse into what Microsoft Office Labs envisions technology to be like in 2019. Much of this is based on current research into gestural input devices, pico projectors, speech recognition, telescopic pixels and flexible transparent displays.
The overriding brief was to re-imagine productivity with a focus on three key tenets:
- Expressions: natural and intuitive
- Connections: seamless and secure
- Insights: contextual and anticipative
Fresh UI ideas from Songza and Algorithm Ink | 37signals
posted by Ryan. [June 30, 2008]
![The Paper Version of the Web | Deeplinking
posted by Sean Flannagan. [March 17, 2008]
UI sketches of Twitter, Vimeo’s profile pages, Flickr’s Places feature, the AbiWord word processor port for the XO Laptop, etc.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/1k7gDl0ghap6jfjwxaF7UFvp_250.jpg)
The Paper Version of the Web | Deeplinking
posted by Sean Flannagan. [March 17, 2008]
UI sketches of Twitter, Vimeo’s profile pages, Flickr’s Places feature, the AbiWord word processor port for the XO Laptop, etc.
Firefox Mobile Concept Video | Vimeo
A demo of an experimental UI for Mobile Firefox by Aza Raskin, Head of UX for Mozilla Labs.
