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Household plants as interface? Sure, why not.

Ok – so this falls well and truly in the ‘solution in search of a problem’ category of concepts, but is, nonetheless, kind of cool. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcRSKEIucjk&w=560&h=315] It is interesting how machine learning is becoming more and more prevalent as an enabling technology for new interfaces.  I guess we are, by nature, just too messy […]

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The stylus is mightier than… your big fat finger???

Well, here’s a rather long-winded, but nonetheless revealing review of a stylus and a few ‘drawing’ applications available for the iPad. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ksjKcQm-uk&w=560&h=315] For me this illustrates nicely one of the major drawbacks of existant touchscreen technologies, namely the lack of precision of the pointer.  Whilst this limitation is only relevant for some domains, and […]

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