A wicked smart and industrious Felipe Gomes has posted a video of some of his work getting multitouch support on Windows 7 using Firefox… More information on this here and at his blog here… Multitouch on Firefox from Felipe on Vimeo.
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Matt Cowan from Reuters gets an interesting tour of Microsoft’s European technology lab in Cambridge. Some really interesting stuff highlighted here…
|Very interesting and creative interpretation of the classic Little Red Riding Hood fable… Slagsmålsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.
|Patti Maes demonstrates an ultra-cool, ultra-innovative approach to user interface design at TED that was developed by a student (yes…a student) named Pranav Mistry from the MIT Media Lab.
|One of the areas that I am constantly discussing and debating with friends and colleagues is the importance of user experience, particularly in how it relates to how we as humans interact and communicate with/through technology. There are some fantastic examples of user experience innovations that are in market today (Apple iPhone, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Surface…etc), which have [...]
|With it’s dominance of the search market, it’s dislike for everything Microsoft and it’s continued focus on cloud computing, many people wondered how long it would take Google to get into the browser game. Well, with it’s recent release of Chrome, that time is now. If you are a MS Windows XP or Vista user (sorry [...]
|A friend from work told me about this little Facebook app called: iamgreen. Essentially it asks you some simple questions and uses that data to rank how green you are (in a superficial and simplistic way), which you can then use to compare your results to your friends and colleagues. You can also browse other [...]
|I first saw Photosynth demoed by Blaise Aguera y Arcas at TED back in November of 2007 (video available below). Even a year ago, the application was almost beyond belief. Well, it looks as though Microsoft has finally made it available for mass consumption. Developed out of the Microsoft Live Labs, a group of brilliant people [...]
|Two of the more significant challenges virtual worlds have had to deal with since their inception several years ago are realism and ubiquity. In terms of realism, virtual worlds have been interesting and engaging, but far from realistic. More like cartoon or semi-realistic gaming environments, they have failed to live up to the hope of [...]
|Although the use of electronic warfare is not new, the approach taken recently by Russian “hackers” is an eerie way in which to wage war in the 21st century. Arstechnica sheds some light on recent reports of Russian “hackers” launching a massive distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on Georgia. Over at Shadowserver(a not for profit security [...]
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