In iPhone apps there’s a “shake to undo” function that lets users to undo the last action. And now that app is right here for Macbooks. With the “Shake-to-Undo” app, computer users can easily get something undone by moving their MacBooks around. [Read the rest of this entry...]
On the Good Design Expo in Tokyo, Japan-based Docomo company built a giant screen to introduce their latest Palette UI interface, something that would improve the navigation between each app on your cellphones by assorting your softwares. Still, the Palette UI is really fantastic, because it would attract butterflies, numbers, and other elements into a cellphone and changes then into colorful stripes. To understand how great the Palette UI is, please check out the video below for more information. [Read the rest of this entry...]
To update its iOS credit card app launched in May 2011, Square recently issued a Version 2.1 app that features a better transaction speed, improved tipping interface and a no-signature service for transactions less than $25.00. With the new version, transactions of $0.00 price points are also supported. [Read the rest of this entry...]
After a lengthy nine months of development, IBM has recently announced its new thin-film solar cell, which is made from cheaper materials while features an efficiency of 9.6% (40% higher than previous prototypes). The new thin film technology uses copper, tin, zinc, sulfur and selenium to take the place of traditional copper indium gallium selenide or cadmium telluride. Besides, the researchers also adopt a new kind of solvent- hydrazine, which is less costly and decomposes more easily. Instead of manufacturing the cells, IBM claims that they’d prefer to license out the new technology when the time comes. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Researchers at Nokia Research Center unveiled the ‘Mobile Radar’ during “Demo House 2010″. Using the same technology adopted by the police to give you a ticket for speeding, the device could measure an object’s distance, speed and direction. Therefore, you can control your cellphone via simple gestures without touching it. For example, you only need to wave your hands in front of your phone if you want to adjust its music player’s volume. Check out the video below to see how the ‘Mobile Radar’ is used. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Guess what, you will hear your own voice announcing certain direction when using the GPS devices! Isn’t that amazing? The free Windows-only application takes the users only 30 minutes to record the needed directions with their own voices. Just try it. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Nobody would refuse simple ideas that work effectively, or much more effectively. And ‘Inklet’, a latest concept from Ten One Design, is an advanced piece of software that transforms MacBook’s trackpad into a drawing tablet. That is to say, your multi-touch trackpad of the MacBook would translate what you’ve drawn on the interface into drawing marks with the help of ‘Inklet’, just as you can see in the video after the jump. So, for $24.95, you can use your trackpad like a tablet, doesn’t that sound appealing? Cool! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Because of lacking musical talent, most people do not have opportunity to make an accompaniment of their own short tune. However, this new software named MySong could dynamically generate a piano accompaniment just for you.
What you should do is just record your tune and then replay it with this software. Video demonstration after the break.
IBM have developed a new software which could indicate the position of the users in some virtual game like Second Life. It could also read the text in the game, so that the blind could also enjoy the online virtual game just like in reality. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Researchers from Ishikawa-Namiki Komuro Laboratory are workingon a device that could detecting the objects around and then inform the user by vibrating. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Omron released their new software which could measure your smile on the scale of 0 to 100%.
Restore a document which has been shredded in to 600 million pieces? You gotta be kidding! No, it’s real. Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute’s Production Systems and Design Technology lab have developed software which could restored shredded document by analyzing 25 features, including color, shape, texture, handwriting and typeface. [Read the rest of this entry...]
