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It’s so exciting to be in this industry right now, with all these new haptic innovations going on. If you run a mobile phone company, prepare to hire haptic designers to team up with your visual designers. It’s going to be a design area in its own right.
Senseg’s website has slightly more information about how their technology works.
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This 3D editor has so much eye candy, it is awe inspiring.
Great work Eskil Stenberg.
More here: http://www.quelsolaar.com/files/index.html
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What’s a solid framerate for touch UIs?
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I miss physical knobs in my interaction with computers. Maybe this crazy idea can bring us one step towards an increased use of knobs. Who knows.
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An actuator that is built on a thin rubbery material. Amazing response time, ranging from 1Hz to 17kHz. It’s about time someone filmed this product and put it on Youtube. For tactile feedback, I think this is an excellent candidate for a long overdue replacement of the crude motors that give modern phones their unaesthetic vibration patterns.
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This future is inevitable. Start preparing now!
Today: Not having a website for your business is unthinkable.
Future: Not having your posters and other graphic promotional material registered so that they can be auto-recognized will be unthinkable.
The URL will disappear from business cards. Your company logo will act as link.
The URL field in mobile web browsers will have a camera icon.
You won’t have to ask your new friends for their phone number. Just permission to take a photo of their face. Algorithms will do the rest. GPS coordinates, together with shared contacts in your social networks will give face recognition a leg up.
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The phone switches mode, depending on how you hold it. It is similar to phones that turn off the screen when you hold it to your ear to talk.
From CHI 20009
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The gesture click+drag is a brilliant design for compact writing on small touch devices, so try to ignore the 1/awesome presentation.
You can try a palm simulator demo, at their website. In the top left area is a link to the JetKeys Demo. JetWay Technologies.
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I love marking menus. This is lovely. Just get rid of the voice feedback and I’m all in. Demonstration starts almost two minutes in.
Today TAT – The Astonishing Tribe has released new versions of TAT Cascades and TAT Motion Lab. TAT Cascades, the leading user interface framework on the market, has been upgraded with a range of new features and improvements focusing on performance, efficiency and easy customization.
Even higher performance
TAT’s UI Framework is known for its high performance across different platforms and operating systems. Now the performance has been further improved, resulting in increased frame rate and responsiveness, noticeable in common use cases like flick scrolling a list and screen transitions. The 3D capabilities are also improved, with a noticeable difference in rendering quality and frame rate, both using software and GPU based rendering.
Fast device customization
The significance of fast customizations to improve your time-to-market is of critical importance to manufacturers today. In the new release we have therefore extended the possibility to implement the UI flow declaratively in XML, meaning that you can build and customize your UI Flows without the need for coding and compiling C-code, and in effect tailor your devices for different regions, segments or customers in record time.
Rapid prototyping with LUA
TAT Cascades now supports LUA script bindings. Instead of being dependent on a software engineer writing C code behind, the UI developer can now create complex user interfaces just using a combination of XML, XML-operations, and LUA script. As a result, UI developers get a much more efficient prototyping environment.
OpenVG™
TAT Cascades now supports OpenVG acceleration as a complement to software or OpenGL ES based rendering. OpenVG is a standardized cross-platform API that provides a low-level hardware acceleration interface for vector graphics libraries such as Flash and SVG, targeted primarily at handheld devices that require compelling user interfaces and text – while enabling hardware acceleration to provide fluidly interactive performance at very low power levels.
Project efficiency
The ability to run large phone projects is of great importance for overall development efficiency. To help guide developers through the complex structures the UI the new version of TAT Motion Lab includes a project overview that shows a hierarchical view of all UI components. The properties editor has a new intuitive interface and great enhancements have been made to the XML verification capabilities. Developers can also turn on profiling to measure different parameters of the UI like frame rendering time and memory allocations to efficiently optimize the performance.
For more information about our products and the latest release please contact us at info@tat.se or call us at For existing customers we refer to http://developer.tat.se for access to complete release notes.