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I wonder if John Markoff was at the Apple iPhone SDK intro? Anyone who saw the demo of Super Monkey Ball learned how the built-in accelerometer facilitated using the iPhone as a game controller. 3D relative motion just like a Wii.
Last year…the arrival of the Wii and the iPhone began to break down the logjam in technological innovation for the way humans interact with computers.
Both devices extend the idea of directly controlling objects on the screen and blending that ability with visually compelling physics software that brings computer screens to life in new, immersive ways.
With a Wii, a wave of the hand can slam a tennis ball in cyberspace; with the iPhone, a flick of a finger can slide a photograph across the screen like paper on a table…
What is new is a convergence of more powerful and less expensive computer hardware and an inspired set of mostly younger software designers who came of age well past the advent of the original graphical user interface paradigm of the 1970s and ’80s…
The transition to more immersive displays is happening in part because of more powerful computer hardware, but also because of an explosion of more powerful programming tools. These tools offer visual effects that were once within the grasp of only the most skillful programmers to a wide audience with only basic skills…
Next wave of changes in computing look to be interesting in ways I hadn’t expected a few years ago.
PicLens is an amazing add-on for FireFox.
Just google “piclens firefox” for the install site. I can’t post it here because a secure connection is created.
Tips:
To visit the site of an enlarged (selected) picture, click the encircled arrow at the left top of the header.
Click outside a selected picture, then click/drag in the black border area to view the whole array.
I’m sure there are more, but those have been the most useful for me. Thanks, Eideard!
Thanks for the ad bubba.
Moral of the story: Design Counts. And you can’t get that from a sweatshop in China.
I have PicLens on both FireFox and IE7 works great with Flickr. Highly recommended.
Or a parochial git in Amerika.
There are game designers, experimenters in hardware and software in every nation. Only a fool thinks being born within specific borders makes them superior.
BubbaRay – #1 – I’ve added a link to the PicLens site in the picture caption.
I like it for searching through Google images.
“logjam in technological innovation” = monopoly control of operating system by M$ – they don’t have to “innovate” !!! They just bank billions every quarter, with “Pre-installed” CrapWare a mental straight jacket on users !!!
Oh, great!
All you used to have to worry about when sitting next to one of them on the train was them chattering constantly or texting away — now they’re going to be waving their arms about, too!