Interface

A close look at the crazy interfaces from The Avengers: Age of Ultron

One of my favorite things about watching movies is seeing the film’s vision of the user interfaces on screens and computers. They’re almost always over the top (like they were in the first Avengers) but I love to imagine that we’ll see all those exploded graphics in our future and pretend that all that information…

Sploid Casey Chan May 19

Literally Anything Is Touch Sensitive With This Leap Motion Hack

Beer cans. Toys. Post-it notes. A fridge. Even a computer screen, because why not? All of these things become touch-sensitive thanks to a fun little piece of work courtesy of a Russian agency called The Family, which posted their work to Vimeo this week. It’s all thanks to Family’s use of a standard Leap Motion…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Nov 14

Microsoft Can Detect Your Gestures Using Just Your Computer’s Audio

Kinect has drawn a huge amount of interest, not just from gamers but computer scientists, engineers and artists. Now, it seems Microsoft is branching out, because one of its latest research projects offers gesture control powered by just a computer’s speakers, microphone, and some inaudible sound. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-wants-to-turn-crazy-ass-kinect-hacks-into-bus-5862576 Called SoundWave, the nascent technology uses the Doppler…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 8

Microsoft’s Crazy New Interface Designs Could Actually Be Useful

I’m a bit of a sucker for concept interface designs: I love how they show off the massive capabilities of new technology without any obvious current practical use. But these new offerings from Microsoft could actually be useful. Well, kind of. They’re probably not going to be popping up in your home any time soon,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 28

Twitter Is Axing The Old Interface This Week

Twitter users hanging onto the old interface have a few more days to enjoy the legacy design. This week Twitter will upgrade you to the new interface. Kick or scream all you want, it’s going to happen. [Twitter via Mashable]

Tech News Kelly Aug 2

Mac OS X Lion Review: This Is Not the Future We Were Hoping For

It breaks my heart to say this, but Mac OSX Lion’s interface feels like a failure. Its stated mission was to simplify the operating system, to unify it with the clean experience of iOS. That didn’t happen. If it weren’t for the fast, rock-solid Unix, graphics and networking cores, Lion would be Apple’s very own…

Reviews Jesus Diaz Jul 11

Gmail’s Getting a Whole New Look To Match Google+

Google is on a roll this week. It took the tech world by storm with Google+, freshened up the user interface of Google Calendar and just unleashed a new design for Gmail. https://gizmodo.com/do-i-really-have-to-set-up-yet-another-social-network-5817117 Jump into Gmail, hop to your settings and check out the two new themes (Preview and Preview Dense) you can try on…

Tech News Kelly Jun 30

Leaked BlackBerry Bold Touch Videos Expose Stupid, Stupid Pinching

Touchscreen pinching makes sense. It’s undeniably intuitive, and pretty gratifying! And now it’s everywhere—including places it shouldn’t be, like the relatively tiny screen of the BlackBerry Bold Touch. This is like picking your nose with a mop. The thing about pinching with your fingers is that it requires manipulating the screen with—your fingers. And the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Apr 4

RIM Acquires Interface Wizards The Astonishing Tribe

Well isn’t this interesting. Today, RIM announced its acquisition of The Astonishing Tribe, the interface gurus who helped shape Android’s look in its early stages. Yup, the BlackBerrys of the future just got a whole lot prettier. In a brief post on the company’s official blog, RIM CTO David Yach said he was “excited that…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Dec 2

Use This Snazzy Multitouch Interface to Control Your Robot Army

Mark Micire of UMass Lowell is a forward thinking dude. Right now, most of us don’t even have one robot, let alone a swarm. But someday, we’ll be tripping over ’em! Micire’s multitouch interface will help keep them in line. Micire’s interface is built atop Microsoft Surface, and marks one of the neatest (and perhaps…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 26

Did Microsoft Just Leak Internet Explorer 9’s New Interface?

Microsoft has yet to reveal IE9’s interface—not set to debut until next month. But ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley says she caught a glimpse of IE9’s new minimalist look via a slip-up on Microsoft’s Russian press site. Through a leaked screenshot and a bit of translating, Foley says the new layout consolidates existing functions to give you…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 25

Ubuntu Users Will be Touching, Tapping, and Sliding With Impending Update

Multitouch is landing in Ubuntu’s upcoming 10.10 release, with a particular eye on Unity, the netbook-optimized flavor of the popular Linux distribution. The new features are expected to eventually support a variety of touch devices, including Apple’s Magic Trackpad. Canonical, Ubuntu’s corporate parent, has already developed a software framework called uTouch, aimed at simplifying the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 17

The Real Future of Computing

For all the talk about the iPad marking a new era of computing, it’s still important to keep an eye on what’s just beyond the horizon: a future in which our gadgets shed their screens and buttons entirely. [Giz]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Apr 2

What Tech Nerds Think About the iPad

The 60 days between the end of January and Saturday have given us, and other really smart people, a lot of time to think about the iPad and what it means. The Revolution Will Be Simplified The predominant strain of philosophical thought amongst pro-Pad punditry is that it’s the computer revolution we’ve been waiting for…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 31

Skinput, the Touch-Interface For Your Skin, Brings a Whole Nother Meaning to Touch Typing

While resistive touchscreens are being phased out in favor of capacitive screens, Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft are working together on touchscreens for your body, called Skinput. Sure, you could just get one of those laser keyboards and project it onto your arm, but Skinput actually recognizes which part of your body you’ve tapped, based…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 2

The Gesture Cube Is Basically the iPad Cubed

Admit it. As confusing and impractical of a concept that the Gesture Cube may be, If Apple had announced this instead of the iPad, the world would have gone freaking nuts. [Gesture Cube via CrunchGear]

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 4

The iPad’s Interface and Gestures: What’s Actually New (Video)

The iPad is a gargantuan iPhone, perhaps more precisely than many hoped. But, if you look closely, you can see hints of what’s truly coming next. There are a few new scraps of gestures and interface bits, all thanks to the larger screen, which you can see sprinkled throughout the keynote video: • True multi-finger…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 29

A Visual Guide to the Apple iPad Interface

Okay, it’s a big iPod. Maybe in more ways than we expected. Until you start touching the interface. Here’s a visual guide to the iPad’s interface, screen by screen. (And of course, check out our definitive hands on.) https://gizmodo.com/apple-ipad-first-hands-on-5457757 This is the home screen. The new iCal! And in portrait. Pop-ups like this one abound…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 27

The Pen de Touch, for Driving Light Cycles

The Pen de Touch provides haptic feedback while interacting with virtual objects. It also looks like Jeff Bridges could streak across the interface any second. If the device "senses" contact with a virtual boundary, it reacts accordingly. For example, If you’re drawing on a virtual surface, the pen pulls in the opposite direction to represent…

Tech News Chris Jacob Dec 12

Gadget Singularity: Let’s Ditch Our Buttons and Screens Forever

The past decade’s march towards better gadgets shows a trend line pointing towards ultra powerful gadgets with UIs so seamless, they make Macs look like a punchcard computers. But if you think about it, we—not hardware—are the limitation. Besides processing power, price and battery life improvements, our preferences for gadgets and the direction of those…

Tech News Brian Lam Nov 11

Interface

A close look at the crazy interfaces from The Avengers: Age of Ultron

Literally Anything Is Touch Sensitive With This Leap Motion Hack

Microsoft Can Detect Your Gestures Using Just Your Computer’s Audio

Microsoft’s Crazy New Interface Designs Could Actually Be Useful

Twitter Is Axing The Old Interface This Week

Mac OS X Lion Review: This Is Not the Future We Were Hoping For

Gmail’s Getting a Whole New Look To Match Google+

Leaked BlackBerry Bold Touch Videos Expose Stupid, Stupid Pinching

RIM Acquires Interface Wizards The Astonishing Tribe

Use This Snazzy Multitouch Interface to Control Your Robot Army

Did Microsoft Just Leak Internet Explorer 9’s New Interface?

Ubuntu Users Will be Touching, Tapping, and Sliding With Impending Update

The Real Future of Computing

What Tech Nerds Think About the iPad

Skinput, the Touch-Interface For Your Skin, Brings a Whole Nother Meaning to Touch Typing

The Gesture Cube Is Basically the iPad Cubed

The iPad’s Interface and Gestures: What’s Actually New (Video)

A Visual Guide to the Apple iPad Interface

The Pen de Touch, for Driving Light Cycles

Gadget Singularity: Let’s Ditch Our Buttons and Screens Forever

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