You can sometimes view prototypes videos like this OmniTouch demo and on the surface think they’re just pretty cool, but when you actually take the time to watch it a number of times it makes you sit up and question what this will eventually lead to?

The level of intereactivity and accuracy they have already achieved within a first generation prototype is pretty incredible. OmniTouch provides capabilities similar to that of a mouse or touchscreen. It is a wearable depth-sensing and projection system that enables interactive multitouch applications on everyday surfaces. It is now conceivable that anything you can do on today’s mobile devices, you could do in the palm of your hand.

The hardware is large at present but over the last decade we have all been witness to the incredible advancements in reducing the physical size of mobile phones and batteries whilst at the same time as they are required to perform more and more demanding tasks.

This is a great insight into what is being developed outside of the mainstream desktop and tablet platforms and it’s conceivable in the future that you could browse the web, read your favourite books, play your favourite games, socialise with friends and use your favourite apps without the need for any bulky hardware. We’d all look a bit weird on the tube though!

I do like the private & public viewing modes.
Will this take off? Time may tell…

I have just been watching this demo of the new Windows 8 OS. Very, very interesting indeed!

This is a momentous departure from what we regard (and are familiar with) as a standard OS and really shows the influence of visual gesture driven multi touch interfaces and mobile platforms.

I can now see why Microsoft put out the press release earlier on in the year saying they were going to run the next generation OS on mobile chip technology.

It will be interesting to compare Windows 8 with Apple Lion when it is released this summer. As we know from the limited press releases they are taking their best thinking from the iPad and bringing it all to the Mac.

As I have stated in previous posts I along with most of the industry are working on research and future thought pieces on the development of mobile platform devices, the future of apps & websites, Transmedia thinking, human behaviour patterns etc. These are very exciting times for all things digital.

Lots of what I have been predicting and talking to various people about is now starting to fall into place. So it’s nice to know I don’t talk bollocks all the time!

Great digital evolution of the humble car brochure. Executed as an app (for iPhone and Android) that recognises traffic signs and transforms them into features of the new Punto Evo.

Take a picture of a regular road sign and the app recognises the sign if it was a QR code, it then associates each sign with a feature of the car directly related to that sign. The app also doubled up as a game where the user could find and win hidden prizes.

If you can get over the really cheesy voiceover it’s a nice idea!

Beautiful short film explaining and celebrating the role of those lovely people we work with and call UX designers.

The Minority Report gesture browsing style gets a step closer!
Students at MIT have developed DepthJS which is a web browser extension that allows any web page to interact with the Microsoft Kinect via Javascript.

Kinect + Computer Vision + Javascript = Very Cool

Get the code and more at depthjs.media.mit.edu

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If your a professional you will still find some little gems of information in here. Make yourself a nice coffee leave your preconceptions behind for once and read with an open mind. Backed up by lots of research and articles from the likes of Jakob Nielsen and Seth Godin.