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RealMac Clear for iPhone: Task Management Made Easy, Beautiful

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I’m a sucker for lists and GTD software, and RealMac Software’s Clear for iPhone looks pretty sweet. Its stupid-simple way of displaying tasks and manipulating them makes it a good option for people who want to keep track of tasks and get them done in a snap.…

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January 28th, 2012 by: Range

Modai Phone Could Become Your Best Friend

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I think it’s kind of sad how a lot of people are becoming increasingly attached to their gadgets like smartphones and tablets. I mean, finding them to be useful is one thing. But feeling like you can’t last a day without them? That’s something else.…

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December 30th, 2011 by: Hazel Chua

Nesting PC Virtual Tablet Concept: What You See is What You Get

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We’ve featured several entries from this year’s Fujitsu Design Award competition organized by designboom, but all of them focused on modularizing a computer or making it more portable. It’s not a surprising focus, what with the growing popularity of portable computing. This particular concept is also an entry to the same…

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May 23rd, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Flex Touchscreen Interface: Warp Before You Scroll

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Scrolling is one of the most frequent actions made in interacting with touchscreen devices. For me it’s such a basic action that I actually didn’t think too much of it, until I saw this new control interface developed by a research team at Osaka University. Called the Flex, it’s a…

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April 1st, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Microsoft Surface 2: Cool and Expensive Enterprise Toy

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It’s not only iOS devices that have a good grasp of touchscreen UIs, Microsoft isn’t bad at them either. However, there are only a few computers available that allow you to use gestures, and one of those is the Microsoft Surface. At CES 2011, M$ unveiled their next-generation Surface 2…

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January 10th, 2011 by: Range

Hitachi Gesture-Based Interface: Why Do We Hate Buttons So Much?

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Seriously, will the future be button-less? What’s up with this surge of motion- and gesture-based UIs? Aside from Microsoft and Sony working on motion-based gaming controllers, Hitachi is also currently working on a Minority Report-ish interface. The company plans on using the technology for digital signage, and – this I…

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July 28th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Mouseless: Now That’S Magical and Revolutionary

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Pranav Mistry loves creating new ways of using and interacting with computers – he was the one who created SixthSense, a portable interface which projects interactive images, not only intuitive and practical but cool as hell to use. Now he and colleagues Patti Maes and Liyan Chang have come up…

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July 4th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Touchscreen Knob Concept is Turning a Lot of Heads

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In general, devices with touchscreens are intuitive, but not always convenient. Sometimes there’s just no substitute for an actual physical interface. For example, the possible motions for rotation on a touchscreen are awkward, whereas if you had a knob you could easily perform rotation. The folks at dsLabs tried to…

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May 16th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Walky Lets You Control Robots via Finger Gestures, Turns iPhone Into a Wii

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Yuta Sugiura and his colleagues at the Graduate School of Media Design in Keio University had a valid starting point – most of the software or hardware input systems today have no direct correlation to the command to be executed, and so are not that easy to master. As high-tech…

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November 13th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

10/Gui User Interface Concept Ponders How Future Slackers Will Kill Time on the Computer

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Those of us who spend more time in front of our computers instead of other humans know that the current keyboard and mouse method of interaction with our magic boxes are far from perfect. I for one, want a half-sphere, multitouch surface that lets me move stuff onscreen with my…

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October 16th, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

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