The app is elegantly designed and driven entirely by gestures, making it easy to add tasks, remove and rearrange them. That’s always been the benefit of iOS apps and it’s nice to see Clear trying to exploit this as much as possible. The nice, simple colors also make it very intuitive to see tasks in priority order. From the video, it looks like you swipe right to complete a task, and swipe left to dismiss it. A drag motion lets you reorganize tasks, while the app also uses an ingenious “pinch apart” gesture to add a new task, and a pinch inward to collapse menus and lists within tasks.

RealMac Clear should available from the App Store soon.

[via NOTCOT]

Here’s the video:

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Isn’t it funny, yet inevitable, that our visions of the future are always constrained by what’s in our present? For example, why are the interfaces so reliant on touchscreens? Did you see how inconvenient it was for the mom to type on her bathroom mirror and set up the map in her car? We already have voice-recognition software like Dragon Dictation; I’d like to think that the future will have more of that. Why type when you can dictate? Hell, KITT exchanged witty banter with Michael Knight.

What about wild ideas like controlling computers with your eyes, or with your thoughts? Or phones that don’t look like transparent iPhones? What about a phone that’s embedded in our ears and eyes? Where are the holograms? And where are the actual keyboards?

But I may be asking too much of Corning, because the video is an advertisement more than anything else. And as I said the company does have a few neat ideas, especially when it comes to what they know best – tough glass, large seamless displays, appliances with multipurpose glass parts – but I’d like to think that the future of computing is not just more of what we have now, but something better.

[via Emergent Futures]

Here’s the interface in action. It’s still in development, hence the delay in response, but it does work:

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What I can’t understand is why Hitachi is planning on incorporating this on desktop PCs and even TVs by the middle of next year. No doubt, gesture-based technology is useful in some instances, but does it really have a place in everyday usage? Will our lives be more awesome if we could wave our hands in front of our PCs just to view pictures and zoom in on maps? Have I just become too old to appreciate new technology? What the hell is going on?!

[via Akihabara News]

ZenZui’s differentiator is its unique “zooming” user interface which lets you quickly maneuver from one application or website to another. The interface features a grid of customizable “tiles” which provide links directly to the users areas of interest. Once a tile is chosen, the selected content immediately fills the mobile devices screen.

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