Microsoft Confirms The Existence Of Its Courier Device, But Has No Plans To Build Such A Device
The Microsoft Courier has always been a rather mythical product, and there is some good news and poor news related to it. The good news is that Microsoft has confirmed the existence of its Courier project; the poor news is that the software giant has no plans to build such a device. The Courier was [...]
Kylo 10-foot interface web browser video demo
[DEMO Spring 2010] A couple of days ago, we told you that Kylo had just launched a web browser for televisions. Based on a 10-foot interface (that’s the name given for user interfaces created particularly for a TV use), the browser aims at providing a much better web browsing experience than the plain-vanilla browsers built [...]
New Input Mechanism That Lets You Wave Your Fingers At Your Phone
Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and Dr. Takashi Komuro of the Tokyo University have come up with a new input method that they shout “vision-based input interface”. Basically that system uses a forward facing camera to read the gestures of your fingers, allowing you to type, visit, browse pictures and some other stuff without having to physically [...]
Nokia Heats Up Patent War With Apple
It seems that the legal battle within Apple and Nokia has taken another turn as Nokia has followed up with a complaint to the US universal Trade Commission (ITC), claiming that virtually all of Apple’s products, including iPods and Mac, violate 7 Nokia patents, not just the iPhone. The patents would involve hardware-related patents for [...]
Synaptics unveils Fuse, the future of touch user interface
Synaptics, which defines itself as a human interface company, has just unveiled a forward-looking concept device aimed at showing that the full potential of touch devices has yet to be achieved. Despite being widely successful by the past few years, touch user interfaces (UI) still need improvements in areas like one-handed usage or tactile feedback. [...]