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The introduction of Macintosh

I found on this video just while browsing and surfing some videos on dailymotion.

Funny that the buzz is made on such a cheap demo, but at this time it has launched an unprecedent element to the “masses”:

the Graphical User Interface a.k.a. the GUI. This will then change the world of Personnal computing forever and will define the norm as for at least 20 years.

40 comments June 25th, 2007

Surface the retro

Back in 1994, the excellent blog Paleo Future is showing that minority report is nothing new.

At that time it was fiction, but the global concept and more is there.

In the same way, who knows if the Claytronics video one day will not play the same role.

The two first episodes are available, let’s hope that the others will follow soon.

Episode 1:

Episode 2:

75 comments June 5th, 2007

Microsoft explore the surface of computing

We already spoke a lot of the new interfaces of the future on this blog (see previous articles here & there).

Now it’s becoming official as Microsoft announced for the end of this year the release of its Surface computer. Nothing new compared to what we alreasy present but a comercial device instead of a prototype.

The interaction with wireless devices and betweeb surface and objects put on it, start to open exciting perspectives.

Futur is always faster as we expect.

Two MS teasers:

A MS presentation of other possibilities:

And a demo (lower quality) :

30 comments June 4th, 2007

Mobile internet, finally a light at the end of the tunnel?

The story is an old and a well known one.

The number of announcements about the arrival of the mobile internet and all its derivatives (marketing, services …) have occurred a numerous of time already.

The networks (Wap, GPRS, 3G, Wifi, WiMax) have been considered as a leverage and … nothing happened because no real adapted contents nor services were delivered beside (And oftently an excessive pricing, being a huge barrier for users).

Each device type generation have also been considered as a potential factor to start the mobile internet wave: gsm, gsm with colour screens, with wifi, pda connectable to any network… and again nothing sufficient to see a start.

So what?

As told, contents and services (and usability)are certainly the key. But what contents and what services? Due to the number of devices and then screen resolutions available on the market, it is very difficult for a content or service provider to test applications and mobile content areas properly.

This could be history soon with the new CS3 release from Adobe; wich is including Adobe Device Central a development framework with integrated emulators of mobile device with integrated knowledge base about the huge amount of different devices available.

Another software giant announcing a move on the mobile internet’s field is Microsoft with its project Deepfish: a mobile device browser.

These announcements are clearly not a revolution, but strong signals from the industry at two capital levels: User experience and application design tools for improved RMA (Rich Mobile Application).

Beside that, pure mobile based applications will certainly shortly explose, services as described by Forbes, some of them are already there in some places like mobile paiments, other are still studied in labs.

So Mobile internet is closer than never, we all know it will arrive soon, the only question is when?

80 comments April 10th, 2007

Interface evolution part 2

As one of my previous post was speaking about interface evloution as the next big thing coming on the technological world.

I can’t resist to show you another prototype coming out the Microsft R&D labs.

Add comment March 7th, 2007