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CategoryMEX Notes: BBC News – Creating Cumbria’s musical hill
- BBC News – Creating Cumbria's musical hill – Pierre Sauvageot's installation of musical instruments on a windy hill in the English Lake District asks whether the environment itself can be a conductor. It got me thinking about some of the themes…
MEX Notes: AT&T ‘Working On’ Shared Data Plans
- AT&T 'Working On' Shared Data Plans – AT&T is waking up to the idea of tariffs built around customers rather than devices. At first glance this may appear to be a simple pricing issue: if a customer buys a 1 Gb monthly data allowance, he wants …
MEX Notes: Only a Few Can Multitask – NYTimes.com
- Only a Few Can Multitask – NYTimes.com – We started exploring the effect of simultaneous multi-platform interactions on user experience back in 2009 and it has remained a consistent theme for MEX ever since. The growth in the number of digital …
MEX Notes: BERG: turning receipts into ‘paper apps’
- BERG: turning receipts into ‘paper apps’ – BERG (the British Experimental Rocket Group, in case you were wondering…) continues its interesting exploration of new and 'quiet' information surfaces, this time looking at how paper receipts could b…
MEX Notes: Chips for multi-platform; Ageing digital content; Windows strategy; Tablet future
- Texas Instruments Debuts 1.8GHz OMAP 4 Chip – 3 displays, simultaneously, at resolutions up to 2048 x 1536. That's a recipe for some seriously interesting multi-platform experiences.
- Photo Rage for iOS – I stumbled across this application in t…
MEX Notes: Nokia Play To; Glassless 3D; Data usage stats; Transparent screens
- Nokia Play To beta – show and play media over WiFi (DLNA) – All About Symbian – This is an important step for Nokia in bringing first generation multi-platform content sharing to Symbian devices, the potential for which has already been highligh…
London’s up-and-coming design talent showcased at Made In Brunel
Made In Brunel returns to London on 9th – 12th June 2011 at a new venue: the Bargehouse on the Southbank (behind the OXO Tower). I have attended on several previous occasions and recommend it as an essential date for anyone interested in meet…
Wind power for mobile devices
This elegant concept design by Julien Moise may be some way from technical reality, but it raises interesting questions about how alternative power methods could convey sustainable values in the user experience of mo…