Kinect Window Wanderland
Window Wanderland? Initially, when I saw a flyer for Window Wanderland I didn’t intend for this to be a Kinect project at all. I was going to do a mechanical moving background of gently rising jellyfish silhouetted with seaweed floating…
From people to robots in 12 months?
Whilst I can’t vouch for the authenticity of these videos (as they don’t come directly from an Amazon channel) the sentiment still holds true – the pace with which we’re adopting robot technology is terrifyingly fast. The first video has…
Making waiting at pedestrian crossings more entertaining
Since we removed humans from the road crossing process our junctions and traffic lights for pedestrians have become pretty dull. But here’s 2 examples that make the waiting process a little more entertaining. There is a school of thought that…
Drawing Shakespeare on a Surface Pro 3 using Fresh Paint
A few years back, tablet artist Paul Kerkal introduced me to drawing on a tablet. Windows 8 tablets are particularly well suited to this, especially the new Surface Pro 3 which has over 250 levels of pressure sensitivity and Palm…
How do I look so cool on Skype? That’ll be Xbox One
My brother asked me if I had my own camera crew to assist with my Skype conversations. Haha. I don’t. What I do have is Skype on my Xbox One. I can sit on my sofa and it will zoom…
Best Kickstarter video ever?
I’ve been a fan of Keiichi’s work since a first saw Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop so I’m super excited about his new Kickstarter project: Hyper-Reality: A New Vision of the Future. Not only is this the best Kickstarter video I’ve…
Designing the Future of the Intelligent Car: User Experience
I love my cars, I love the changes in their interfaces over the years from the very analogue and symmetrical view in my 1972 Mini, the space age Citroen GS, the cartoonified G-wiz through to my current BMW stable of…
Content before Chrome and on-demand UI
‘Take advantage of the screen real estate’. That’s a common saying that was bandied around when working on the web in the early days. As screen resolutions increased we (collective we – designers, developers – the makers of the internet)…
Xbox SmartGlass – dual screening using Surface as SatNav
There’s been some discussion in recent years about how many screens we each have and that one holy grail is how we get these screens to work together – TV, PC, phone, tablet – so I thought I’d share this…