Marina Mann » Technology http://marinamann.com/blog Leadership in digital strategy, digital marketing Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:45:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc The Future of Human Computer Interfaces = No Keyboard http://marinamann.com/blog/2010/06/02/the-futur-of-human-computer-interfaces-no-keyboard/ http://marinamann.com/blog/2010/06/02/the-futur-of-human-computer-interfaces-no-keyboard/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:06:52 +0000 Marina http://marinamann.com/blog/?p=912 John Underkoffler is the creator of the now famous Minority Report gestural interface. The future of human computer interface is no keyboard, it’s you. In the very near future navigation happens in 3D. The system is about manipulation and navigation in the virtual space while interacting with real world objects (like your hands).

Among the spectacular-ness of gestural is a way of navigating data (as seen in Minority Report). Here you can take tabular data and apply it to geo-spacial information so the data can be understood and made meaningful. The collaborative design work demonstrated is also amazing.

To paraphrase Underkoffler regarding his inspiration: We create and our technology is a combination of design and efficacy that allows us to do that.

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HTML5 is what user experience should have always been without plug-ins and the sometimes excruciating “loading…” times.

Imagine never having to be confronted with another “click here to download plugin” or “loading…and still loading…” message again. User experience utopia? Maybe not, but definitely user experience relief.

In the near future, using HTML5, we’ll be able to do all sorts of things that are hard or next to impossible to do with download-able plug-ins currently. HTML5 brings new flexibility of user experience, and promises of semantics, JavaScript APIs for drag and drop, offline storage, image generation, plugin-free video and that’s only to name a few.

It’s hard to find many examples of websites built in HTML5 today. To give you an idea of what’s possible, check out Mugtug.com’s sketchpad.

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No Flash support, just like the iPhone. I can put up with blue boxes in the place of websites on the iPhone, but not on a tablet that I’d like to use for surfing! (Not to mention Jobs single highhandedly contributing to the demise of Flash – but that’s anther story.)

No multi-tasking. You can’t have two applications open at the same time! It feels like 1994 computing.

No camera for video conferencing. No camera for taking pictures. Nada.

No widescreen mode. Movies formatted for widescreen are squished into the 4:3 aspect ratio making it unusually painful to watch.

Apple only applications. The iPad will only run applications from the iTunes store, unlike any standard mini-laptop that runs all kinds of applications.

Side loading only. Think you can download whatever you want off the Internet onto your iPad? Think again! The only way to download anything to your iPad is by hooking yourself up to another device using a cable. (Come on Jobs!)

It’s not perfect, however there are a number of wonderful things about the iPad. For everything you need to know check out Gizmondo.com

]]> http://marinamann.com/blog/2010/02/12/the-ipad-is-here-and/feed/ 0 Apple will announce their new innovation tomorrow: Will “it” do for publishing what the iPod did for music? http://marinamann.com/blog/2010/01/26/apple-will-announce-their-new-innovation-tomorrow-will-it-do-for-publishing-what-the-ipod-did-for-music/ http://marinamann.com/blog/2010/01/26/apple-will-announce-their-new-innovation-tomorrow-will-it-do-for-publishing-what-the-ipod-did-for-music/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:28:38 +0000 Marina http://marinamann.com/blog/?p=807 Tomorrow in San Francisco, Apple will announce to the world media their new innovation. The buzz for the new device has been deafening.  It’s been called: the super tablet, the iSlate the iPad and a few more. The speculated promise is everything from thermal paper to uber multi-touch, in-the-bathtub, under-the-pillow reading and monumental media device. Salivating for readers and media consumers and terrifying for publishers. Will the tablet change everything? Will it do for publishing what iPod did for music? And if it does, are publishers ready for the demand for digital content? Probably not.

The even bigger question goes beyond the availability of digital content, but begs the question of  paid content. Will consumers pay for content they currently get for free? Do people pay for water? We’ll see…

More about Apple’s “news” tomorrow:

Apple iTablet rumour round-up – Telegraph

The Apple Tablet: a complete history, supposedly — Engadget

Play Paywall!, the new web game sweeping the newspaper industry » Nieman Journalism Lab

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Here’s a great 5-minute video walk through of how Android compares to the iPhone experience. Don’t let the “for developers” label scare you. It’s a great look at the customer experience on the T-Mobile G1. A few cool features include bar code scanning (hello location based coupon-ing!) and how the touch screen and keypad work together. Although you don’t have the multi-touch features which is a big loss, I love how the pull down screens make it easy to switch between applications like email and maps.

A 5 Minute Walkthrough of Android For iPhone Developers

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