Pathway #2: Multi-screens from a single device
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Will buying Motorola enable Google to create better user experiences?
Once the press is done with its billion dollar headlines and the advisory teams have been paid their percentages, mergers and acquisitions succeed or fail on a simple test: does the expanded entity create a better experience for its customers. Go…
MEX Notes: Apple applies for pico projector patent
- Source article: Apple applies for pico projector patent
MEX note: Display and input mechanisms are the dominant design constraints of mobile devices. While the technology exists to miniaturise much of the communications and application processin…
The room is your interface
Multitouch Experience Cube from SENSORY-MINDS on Vimeo.
Sensory Minds created this installation for its client GRASS at the Interzum 2011 show in Cologne, Germany. It combines 23 displays to make an immersive multi-touch room, with about 14 me…
MEX Notes: Motorola considering sub-device category?
- Source article: Motorola considering sub-device category?
MEX note: This Engadget article surfaces pictures of a possible Motorola sub-device, designed to be mounted like a watch on a wrist-strap. It would provide music and GPS fitness tracking,…
Nokia launches set-up service for NFC tags and posters
In a sign of the imminent mass market arrival of NFC ‘touch-to…’ technology, Nokia has launched a service for creating NFC tags and posters. The NFC Hub enables users to order NFC tags pre-programmed with Facebook and Foursquare check-ins, Twit…
TubeTap helps users claim refunds for London Underground journeys
Page 42 of Transport for London’s Conditions of Carriage holds an interesting nugget of information: if your London Underground journey is delayed by more than 15 minutes for reason’s within TfL’s control, it will refund the cost of your single jo…
Vodafone Webbox brings internet to TVs over 2.5G
Vodafone’s Webbox was announced in February 2011 and uses a combination of the Android OS and Opera Mini web browser to bring internet browsing to existing TV sets in emerging markets. The physical product is essentially a PC-style QWERTY key…
Russell Davies’ essays on secondary attention
Russell Davies has written an interesting series of articles on designing for secondary attention, a subject which has been consistent theme in the MEX community for some years, most recently with MEX Pathway #2. In the first article, entitled ‘T…