Posts in Innovation

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Oct 12, 2006
Innovation

For All Seasons

Andreas Mueller created a series of interactive vignettes entitled For All Seasons back in 2004. It’s quite difficult to explain, so I’ll leave it to him: [For All Seasons is a] piece about memories, seasons and using the elements of the textual r...

Sep 19, 2006
Innovation

Gestural Interfaces

Jeff Han, a research scientist at NYU, demonstrated a prototype of a gesture-driven user interface at TED 2006. The “interface-free” UI (I hate terms like that) is demonstrated with several interesting demos, which hew towards data visualization i...

Aug 24, 2006
Innovation

Onyx - Concept Mobile Phone

I just found a bolus of information on a concept phone produced by Synaptics, makers of touchpads everywhere and Pilotfish, a German/Taiwanese design firm. The concept incorporates some unique elements to enhance usability, such as automatically a...

Aug 10, 2006
Innovation

What is Innovation?

In some circles, it’s taken as a basic truth that certain companies have more innovativeness in their pinkies than other companies can muster among all of their 70,000 employees. I am firmly of the belief that this narrow perspective is flawed, at...