Part of the Mozilla Labs Concept series, Seabird is an exploration of how user interfaces could evolve following advances in motion tracking and projector miniaturisation technology.
This is purely a concept and there are no plans to produce an actual device based on this concept.
It explores a technique for drawing in 3D on a 2D surface using an input device which collapses onto itself, giving the impression of being pushed into the screen – watch the enclosed video to get a better idea of what’s happening.
It will be interesting to see whether this technique will be of any use in 3D CAD software. Towards the end of the video ( 1:41 ) is a demonstration of how to create simple extruded shapes.
Oblong Industries (http://oblong.com/) is the developer of the g-speak spatial operating environment (SOE) .
The SOE’s combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use machines at work, in the living room, in conference rooms, in vehicles. The g-speak platform is a complete application development and execution environment that redresses the dire constriction of human intent imposed by traditional GUIs. Its idiom of spatial immediacy and information responsive to real-world geometry enables a necessary new kind of work: data-intensive, embodied, real-time, predicated on universal human expertise.
Morph is a concept that explores how nanotechnology might be used in the future for next generation mobile devices – utilising features such as flexible materials, transparent electronics, self-cleaning surfaces and more.
The concepthas been developed by the Nokia Research Center (NRC) in partnership with the Nanoscience Center at the University of Cambridge, and demonstrates how a future mobile device can be transformed into completely different shapes.
Nanotechnology enables the creation of materials that are flexible, can be stretched, made transparent and are very strong. A device made out of a material like this could be folded to fit into a pocket or opened out to present a larger working suruface area.
The material could be self-cleaning and the surface could even incoporate a covering of “nanograss” structures which would allow it to harvest solar enery and be self-powered.
The Gadget Show – a TV program on Channel 5 in the UK – recently collaborated with Curventa a design and development consultancy also in the UK, to create a new design concept for a compact digital camera.
Using emerging techology including a flexible OLED screen, wireless (induction) charging and DLP projector the resultant design represents a unique and practical solution.
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