It's all about the experience

    10 Feb 2012

    Video prototyping of different gesture-based interaction techniques to zoom in and out in a wall sized geospatial exploring application. Which one is your favorite? Which one is the worst?

    Tags: Kinect. Research. HCI.

    5 Feb 2012

    Amazing time-lapse photography animation that does a terrific job at presenting one’s struggle to use technology to get things done and stop procrastinating.

    Tags: video.

    22 Nov 2011

    If only we could get 10 times the amount of time we get to create new things in the “real world” …

    Tags: design. creativity.

    20 Nov 2011

    Creativity and simplicity at its best.

    Tags: video. video.

    30 Jun 2011

    “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
    — Albert Einstein

    28 Jun 2011

    3D Immersion Tech, by IDEO.

    This kind of technology makes me wonder if what I really want on my next generation gaming experience is a 3D screen, multitouch, dual (or triple) screens, gyro and motion sensors, etc… or an immersive whole room virtual environment…

    Having experienced all of them, I’ll give you a hint, the immersive environment wins :P Now just let me have this plus Google Earth and I’ll never leave my room. Thanks.

    27 Jun 2011

    Think different.

    ” Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

     Apple Inc.

    30 May 2011

    1966 prediction of the home compuer.

    The year is 1966 and this is how people thought personal computing would become in the future. I have to admit, I think they did a terrific job, considering they properly guessed about lot’s of technologies and practices that had not been invented yet. I mean, the technology to create flat screen TV’s didn’t exist yet, not to mention about this whole idea of people connected to people remotely all the time. I wonder, if we had to predict now how personal computing will be by 2050, could we come up with something as accurate as this?

    10 Mar 2011

    Real-Time What You See Is What You Get collaborative coding.

    I develop software,  a lot. I work in teams and collaborate, a lot. Yet we do it the kind of old fashioned way… That is, we use a shared Google Doc for the design/requirements, Git for collaborative source control and emacs/vim for the actual development. So I started thinking, we use collaboration tools for design and source control, but individual tools for the most important part of our development. Why can’t we have a GoogleDoc-like IDE to code collaboratively remotely in real time, and avoid all the merge, duplicate, rollback issues we often times have? I thought about creating a tool to do this, and while at it, I found this awesome add-on for Eclipse which pretty much does what I want to do. Now the only question that remains is, if I want to go back to using Eclipse as my IDE…

    9 Mar 2011

    Ambient Light-Powered Transparent touchscreen LED LCD. Forget all about Nvidia’s Extreme-HD or the fancy 240hz 3D monitors. That stuff is alright, but THIS IS the future. You see, incremental upgrades such as resolution or refresh rates are good, but this incredibly amazing new screen from Samsung is truly amazing. Not only is it transparent ( yes, you can therefore use it as LCD monitor/window) and supports 10 point multitouch interactions, the thing is powered by solar cells and therefore is absolutely wireless. A self-powered, HD, wireless, transparent multitouch screen, can’t wait.

    Ambient Light-Powered Transparent touchscreen LED LCD.

    Forget all about Nvidia’s Extreme-HD or the fancy 240hz 3D monitors. That stuff is alright, but THIS IS the future. You see, incremental upgrades such as resolution or refresh rates are good, but this incredibly amazing new screen from Samsung is truly amazing. Not only is it transparent ( yes, you can therefore use it as LCD monitor/window) and supports 10 point multitouch interactions, the thing is powered by solar cells and therefore is absolutely wireless. A self-powered, HD, wireless, transparent multitouch screen, can’t wait.