“Samsung officially unveiled their new 23-inch U250 and 20-inch U200 all-in-one PCs.”
TechPinger
“Samsung officially unveiled their new 23-inch U250 and 20-inch U200 all-in-one PCs.”
“Designers of ADR Studio presented a very nice concept called Apple iWatch. His name, indeed, Apple style, and, as you might guess, this watch. Apple iWatch is a wristwatch with a touch screen and built-in pico-projector. The device is enclosed in aluminum housing and the shape and appearance, in general, resembles miniature iPad. The display, according to the designer's idea can be displayed not only time but also the weather forecast, also available in RSS reader. “
“HP announces the latest notebook into its Pavilion series. The new HP notebook has been named as HP Pavilion Dv6. This cool HP laptop comes with really good features which carry the touchscreen feature.”
“Instead of two turntables and a microphone, DJ Rana Sobhany makes music with two iPads and a handful of apps.”
Toshiba has showed off a gesture interface with ordinary webcams.
“ASUS has unveiled its latest addition to its Eee PC range. The ASUS Eee Top PC ET2010 is one inch thick all-in-one desktop machine, which can also be mounted on a wall if space is at a real premium.”
Kevin Arthur has shared slides about evaluating touch gesture usability for his presentation at UPA2010.
It's a good overview of current status and trends of eye tracking technologies
“Swiss company Atracsys swims in the same waters as Microsoft's mythical Surface beast -- namely, multitouch horizontal displays -- but where it might differ from its more lauded competitor is in actually bringing its hardware to wider markets. Having sold the tech knowhow to Sony, the company is today informing the world that its atracTable is ready for mass production and commercialization this June. We've been told that prototype designs are now "finished," leaving only the marketing, pricing and distribution details to be worked out. A high-contrast, Full HD screen is promised, which will be able to communicate with your mobile devices (naturally) or respond to motion input picked up by a pair of Sony's camcorders which come built in. Skip past the break for a couple of video demos from last year.”
Compare the above video clip with this Future Multitouch Meeting Room found at The Future Interactions Network.
Future Multitouch Meeting Room from Oli Mival on Vimeo.
“Is there a tablet in Google’s future with a three-dimensional, multitouch user interface? It’s increasingly likely, given that the search giant has just acquired BumpTop, a startup whose unique software creates a 3-D environment where users can toss files and folders around as though they were playing cards, stack them in related piles and “hang” them on the virtual walls. If Google is working on an iPad-style tablet, as many believe that it is, a BumpTop-style interface would be dramatic departure from the typical 2-D app/icon approach, and could provide a significant alternative to the look and feel of Apple’s iPad.”
It’s a tall touch display monolith exhibited at Shanghai World Expo by Tharsis Software.
Exposition Universelle à Shanghai (Totem interactif) from Tharsis-Software on Vimeo.
[Thanks, Arnaud]
“Korean phone giant Samsung has teamed up with O2 to launch a special edition of its Monte smartphone that will feature exclusive content to coincide with the release of Marvel's Iron Man 2.”
MONTE DA CAPARICA, PORTUGAL and SUNNYVALE, CA – MAY 24, 2010 – YDreams and Canesta Inc. today announced a partnership that has the potential to redefine augmented reality and bring it to the broad market.
“Augmented reality will change the way we market and use products, communicate and entertain ourselves,” said Ivan Franco YDreams´ R&D Director. “But, to date, implementing augmented reality solutions has only been possible with very specialized techniques. By working together with Canesta, we look forward to making augmented reality a part of everyday life.”
YDreams has been working on Natural User Interfaces (NUI) for more than 9 years for some of the largest corporations in the world. To do this, the company has developed a sophisticated proprietary software platform, combining multiple advanced technologies such as computer vision, physics simulation, artificial intelligence and several others.
“One of the most difficult aspects of designing NUI applications has been to create a sense of real world interactions. We envision consumers naturally browsing through digital catalogs, adding to the user experience of ecommerce or being inside movies, delivered by IPTV platforms.”
Until now Augmented Reality has delivered limited applications to the general public, mostly offering 3-D objects on top of visually obtrusive markers. By using Canesta’s 3-D vision sensors, YDreams applications can do real-time capture of any object in 3-D, without the aid of any special markers or enhancements. “This completely changes the scope of where and how augmented reality can be used,” said Franco.
“YDreams is among the world’s leading organizations in developing augmented reality experiences,” said Jim Spare, president and CEO of Canesta. “By combining our mass market 3-D input sensors with YDreams’ expertise, we will see broad uses of these formerly very specialized applications. This will change how immersive and realistic so many kinds of communications and interactions will become.”
A video of a demo developed by YDreams can be viewed online at YDreams’ official YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXcIZ1R68SQ) and it will be possible to experience the technology live at the ARE2010 event (augmentedrealityevent.com) on June 2-3, in Santa Clara, CA.
About YDreams
YDreams (www.ydreams.com) is a global company that is redefining the concept of interactivity, with a focus on the exciting field of Augmented Reality technologies. Over the last few years YDreams has been developing full-scale interactive environments (from stores to exhibitions), products and intellectual property, combining technology and design.
YDreams researches and develops proprietary/patented technologies in areas such as image processing, augmented reality and gesture-based interfaces, resulting in best of breed solutions that are integrated into projects and products, or licensed to partners.
YDreams has developed over 500 projects for clients all over the world, such as Adidas, Vodafone, Nokia, TMN, Barclays, Coca-Cola, Santander, BBC, JCDecaux, IDEO, among others, and partnerships with Microsoft, Siemens, Geodan, Grupo Portucel Soporcel, Sonae Indústria, Corticeira Amorim, among others.
YDreams was founded in 2000, with headquarters in Monte da Caparica, Portugal, and offices in Barcelona, Spain; Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.
About Canesta
Canesta (www.canesta.com) is the inventor of revolutionary, low cost electronic perception technology and leading provider of single chip CMOS 3-D sensors that fundamentally change the relationship between devices and their users. This capability makes possible “the other side of 3-D” – true 3-D perception as input to everyday devices, rather than the widely understood 3-D representational technologies as output. Canesta’s 3-D input technology, based upon tiny, CMOS 3-D imaging chips or “sensors”, enables fine-grained, 3-dimensional depth-perception in a wide range of applications. Products based on this capability can then react on sight to the actions or motions of individuals and objects in their field of view, gaining levels of functionality and ease of use that were simply not possible in an era when such devices were blind. Canesta’s focus is on mass market consumer electronics, but many applications exist in other markets as well. Some of Canesta’s customers and partners include Hitachi, Honda, Optex, Optronic, Quanta, SMSC, and others which have yet to be announced.
Canesta is located in Sunnyvale, CA. The company has filed in excess of fifty patents, 41 of which have been granted so far
YDreams is a trademark of YDreams - Informática, S.A., registered in the US and other countries.
Canesta is a trademark of Canesta Inc., registered in the US and other countries.
Other company names above may also be trademarks of their respective owners, of which no trademark symbol omission is intended.
MIT student Robert Wang has built a data glove-based gestural interface. The data glove used is a very painted normal glove. So, only components you need for gestural interface are glove and cameras. The system is really cute. The idea is cute, clever, and funny!
Link: MIT via Popular Science
I found it Atmel’s press release:
“… the 10-touch mXT224 which Samsung is using it its Wave smartphone …”
I found two iPad note taking apps with palm rejection capability. The palm rejection capability is crucial to implement note taking applications on tablets such as iPad.
Link: GottaBeMobile
Microsoft Research has showed off “Pinch-the-Sky Dome” that you can control images projected inside a tilted geodesic dome.
LInk:istartedsomething
“Wall Street closed yesterday with a major announcement, HP buys Palm for $5.70 per share, amounting to $1.2 billion. Both companies reported that the deal was expected to conclude by July end.”
“The latest Apple patent on multitouch gestures gives a good idea of the possible ways in which we will all be interacting with our touchscreen slates, laptops and Macs in the future.”
Jakub Linowski has posted an article about affordance for the cursor with a live example. Here is an excerpt:
“I’ve seen users struggle to realize when additional interactions are possible. This I think is largely due to a lack of cues. Hence, these little cursor accordances aim to provide additional contextual symbols that float alongside the cursor.”
Inventor Roger Linn has showed off a musical instrument called LinnStrument. Multi-touch goes everywhere.
via Mashable
“mediaIDEAS has published a new research into the growth and value of the US market for e-readers paid content. According to the report, at the end of 2014, the US user base of e-readers will have grown aggressively to nearly 45 million, and the market for all categories of content sold for these devices will have increased to approximately $10.86 billion. And, by 2020, this e-reader content market will have risen to more than $33 billion.”E-Reader-info.com
“Between various patents and even a bog-standard Sony Ericsson, we've already thought about the possibilities of gesture-controlled phones. The University of Tokyo, in typical form, has taken it one step forward and released a video showing some sweet Natal-like possibilities.”
IR Great Innovation sells off-the-shelf infrared (IR) pen for Wiimote whiteboards. I guess that the IR pens can be used to build one’s own DIY pen/multi-touch hybrid system such as MS’s Manual Deskterity.
Document | Author(s) | Date | Source Title |
Using a touch screen computer to support relationships between people with dementia and caregivers | Astell, A.J., Ellis, M.P., Bernardi, L., Alm, N., Dye, R., Gowans, G., Campbell, J. | 2010 | Interacting with Computers |
An universal remote controller with haptic interface for home devices | Kim, L., Park, W., Cho, H., Park, S. | 2010 | ICCE 2010 - 2010 Digest of Technical Papers International Conference on Consumer Electronics, |
Design of a scalable interactive table system with power line communication | Lee, Y.-T., Lien, C.-H., Huang, C.-H., Mao, C.-C. | 2010 | ICCE 2010 - 2010 Digest of Technical Papers International Conference on Consumer Electronics, |
Harada, N., Kawakami, R., Yoneda, T. | 2010 | IEEJ Transactions on Sensors and Micromachines, | |
Force-sensitive rubbery user interface using an LCD and photoelasticity | Sato, T., Mamiya, H., Koike, H., Fukuchi, K. | 2010 | Computer Software, |
A touch screen button size and spacing study with older adults | Lavictoire, M., Everhart, N. | 2009 | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), |
Remark: You need Scopus access right to open the links of the above papers.
Document | Author(s) | Date | Source Title |
12x12 Capacitive matrix touch sensing unit for SoC application in 0.18um CMOS process | Nam, C., Pu, Y.-G., Lee, K.-Y. | 2009 | 2009 International SoC Design Conference, ISOCC 2009, |
Implemantation and evaluation of the gesture interface for object based e-learning system | Nagata, K., Dounoue, S., Koshi, K., Miyoshi, M., Kiyota, K. | 2009 | 2009 4th International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control, ICICIC 2009, |
I don’t have money to buy them but the titles are very appealing.
Taluko new Multi Touch experience by Fabrik from fabrik on Vimeo.
[Taluko Project information is provided by Fabrik]
“Microsoft has announced Microsoft Touch Pack for the Windows 7 loaded notebooks with touch-support. In May 2009, Microsoft had announced that it will bring new Touch Pack of six applications for multi-touch supporting netbooks with Windows 7 available only through notebook makers. Obviously, this Touch Pack will work only with multi-touch supporting notebooks or netbooks. The Touch function has been built into the deep codes of Windows 7.”
“Engadget has exposed what it asserts to be the leaked documents, giving detailed information about the 5-inch multitouch Dell Streak tablet, which is also known as the Dell Mini 5 and Dell's 7-inch multitouch tablet doohickey, which is known as the Looking Glass.”
“According to a public announcement of Sony Ericsson and an unofficial report from a cell phone website based in the United Kingdom, the XPERIA X10 will have Android 2.1 and multi-touch support and will appear in the second half of this year. The release is expected for September and is far enough to make the update insufficiently attractive to lure buyers away from handsets like the HTC Incredible and HTC Evo 4G, both of them having similar specifications to the XPERIA X10, but sporting larger screens or more recent software.”
“Earlier in February it was reported that Research in Motion's BlackBerry OS 6.0 was in the making. Now, BoyGeniusReport has acquired the first screenshots and some details of the OS. A redesigned homescreen, multi-touch gesture support for touchscreen handsets, and system-wide kinetic scrolling are few of the many features unleashed in the major upgrade. RIM is expected to reveal BlackBerry OS 6.0 at the WES 2010 symposium starting April 27, while it will be released sometime in June or July. Hey, that's when the iPhone OS 4.0 update is expected too!”
“Human interface solutions developer Synaptics Inc. on Monday announced it has made its Synaptics Gesture Suite available for Linux-based devices. This move brings multi-touch support to the open source operating system for the first time. Synaptics currently offers its multi-touch interface in Windows-based TouchPad devices.”electronista