Cooltopia Launches snappgrip for iPhone and Galaxy S3 at CES 2013
User Interface - Snappgrip is another interesting new product shown at the Digital Experience evening press event organized by Pepcom at CES 2013. Snappgrip is a smartphone case with removable camera...
View ArticleSynaptics Introduces ForcePad and ThinTouch Input Devices at CES 2013
User Interface - Synaptics introduced their ForcePad force sensing touchpad and ThinTouch low profile keyboard at the 2013 CES Unveiled evening press event. The photo below shows the ForcePad and...
View ArticleIntel Pushes Natural Human Interfaces at CES 2013
User Interface - At CES 2013, presenters at Intel’s press conference highlighted their recent efforts on providing computers with more natural human interfaces. Intel began their press conference with...
View ArticleConsumer Electronics Makers Still Working to Get TV Remotes Right
User Interface - At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show I found that consumer electronics developers are still striving to improve the user interfaces and TV remote controls offered with their products....
View ArticleThree Trends That Are Redefining the User Interface
User Interface – The 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) offered conference sessions on a wide range of topics. The Home Entertainment conference track included a panel session entitled Three Trends...
View ArticleUser Interfaces Advance in Fits and Start-ups
User Interface - Many consumer electronics users likely think of the first iPhone launched in 2007 as the first widespread use of a touch screen user interface. However, as with many user interface...
View ArticleMitsubishi Develops Prototype Automotive Projection Display
Automotive - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced that it has developed a prototype projection display system for automotive dashboard applications. A key feature of the projection display...
View ArticleNEC Smartphone with Dual 4.3 Inch Displays
Smartphones - Japanese wireless carrier DOCOMO has launched its spring lineup of mobile handsets that includes the new NEC Medias W Android smartphone (photo below). The NEC smartphone features two...
View ArticleMicrosoft Research Demos New User Interfaces and Display Applications
User Interface - Microsoft Research at its annual TechFest event this past week (Mar. 5-7, 2013, Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, Washington, USA) revealed a number of innovations aimed at...
View ArticleSouth by Southwest Interactive Recognizes User Interface Advances
User Interface - The recently concluded South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW Interactive, March 8-12, 2013, Austin, TX, USA) has awarded its Breakout Digital Trend Award to Leap Motion for its Leap...
View ArticleMicrosoft Releases Kinect SDK 1.7 Enabling 3D Scanning Capability
3D Content - Microsoft on March 18, 2013 launched the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.7. The new SDK includes the Kinect Fusion tool that enables the Kinect for Windows sensor to...
View ArticleOculus Rift Developer Kits Arrive in Users’ Hands (and on Users’ Heads)
Personal Eyewear - Oculus VR (Irvine, CA, USA) has begun shipping their Oculus Rift virtual reality head mounted display system development kit. The Oculus Rift (photo below) is intended to provide...
View ArticleEyeglass and Head Mounted Display Products Raise Privacy and Distraction...
Emerging display products including Google Glass and sports eyewear enabled by Recon Instruments’ MOD Live heads up display are driving new concerns about privacy and user distraction. A primary...
View ArticleVote with Your Remotes
Display Week 2013 - Bill Buxton’s (Microsoft Research) keynote address at SID Display Week 2013 (Vancouver, Canada, May 21, 2013) presented a simple, but powerful, necessary condition for preserving...
View ArticleIntel Sees “Touch Everywhere” Driving Their Business
User Interface – At the 2013 SID Display Week Business Conference Zane Ball, Vice President, Intel Architecture Group General Manager, Global Ecosystem Development made the case that “Touch Everywhere”...
View ArticleYota Devices Launches Dual Display Smartphone
Phones/Smartphones – Vladislav Martynov, CEO of Yota Devices spoke at the 2013 SID Display Week Business Conference during the session entitled Strategies for the Mobile Wave. Martynov’s presentation,...
View ArticlePervasive Displays Sees Opportunities for Information Display in Our...
Mobile Display Applications – Pervasive Displays’ presentation by company CEO Scott Soong at the 2013 SID Display Week Business Conference focused on building his business displaying information in a...
View ArticleThe Next Touch Evolution
User Interface – In the Touch User Experience session of the 2013 SID Symposium invited speaker Don Norman of Nielsen Norman Group (Palo Alto, CA), delivered a thoughtful discussion concerning The Next...
View ArticleMobile Display Applications Push Pixel Density Higher
Mobile Displays – At this week’s Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan (June 4-8), notebook PC and display manufacturers are rolling out new high resolution display offerings. At Computex, Fujitsu...
View ArticleITO Replacement Materials for Touch Sensors
Display Components – At SID Display Week 2013 several other developers in addition to newly introduced Cima NanoTech were promoting their indium tin oxide (ITO) replacement materials for touch sensor...
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