N-trig gets $24 million Investment

Investors, include: Aurum Ventures, Challenger Ltd., Canaan Partners, Evergreen Venture Partners and Microsoft Corp. Read more here ” N-trig’s DuoSense™ technology combines pen, touch and multi-touch in a single device, using zero-pressure capacitive touch to provide a true Hands-on™ computing experience. N-trig enables OEMs to introduce computer products that offer a more intuitive and interactive [...]

Microsoft’s Visions of the future

There are many of these future vision videos around, however the way that Microsoft has presented these ideas is great and worth watching – my only worry is that these future systems will probably run on windoze Vision on manufacturing Vision on banking Vision on retail Vision on Health Care Interesting or Scary visions of [...]

3d Hologram Korea

Interactive Hologram

Been a bit of buzz online about this. LM3LABS has created this gesture controlled Hologram system called Air Strike. [via engadget via fresh creation]

PrimeSense: 3D Immersive Gaming Hardware

Progression of the Wii? -Apparently you don’t need a device to communicate your location within the room to the machine, thats great. However what if there are two or more of you?-I’m sure their working on it “Prime Sense’s concept is a device, which allows a computer to perceive the world in 3D and derive [...]

Unity – Nokia, Regents Street Xmas Lights 07

Christmas is upon us and the London shopping lights have been switched on and the frenzy has begun. This year Nokia as sponsored the Regents Street lights as part of a campaign to promote the opening of their new flagship store on the 14th December 2007. Nokia have worked with their agency Wieden+Kennedy to bring [...]

UMPC – UltraMobile

Its the future……… Products that are taking us towards this:•Samsung’s UMPC•Asus R3 – Apparently Apple have been working with Asus on a tablet. Smaller devices•Nokia’s N95 – With Its GPS feature (from what I have read its still a bit buggy though) Other contenders if they GPS up:•iPhone•gPhone (soon to be released)•Sony Ericsson P1i This [...]

Air Joystick

Potentially the next phase of Wii type interactions. This is what they gotta say: “This is Sensoring, an air joystick that analyzes your body’s electric field to transform it into some kind of Wiimote. In this video, the user waves his hand in the air—without any kind of motion detection markers or cameras—to fly a [...]

Interactive Surfaces

A great example of furniture woven with technology: iBar

Softspace: Contemporary Interactive Environments

On Saturday 8 September 2007, 14.00–18.00 the Tate Modern is holding a talk/discussion around the area of Physical Space Interaction. The talk/discussion will be chaired by are Lucy Bullivant and the speakers will include Jane Burton, Jason Bruges, Usman Haque, Lev Manovich, Despina Papadopoulos,Daan Roosegaarde. The physically permanent identity of architecture has helped to define [...]