Archive for the 'User Interface' Category

Apple iPhone 2.0 International Language Support

Apple has announced that the iPhone 2.0 OS will support many languages including Japanese and Chinese with character drawing and recognition. I hope they didn’t forget Korean. This is fantastic! With a physical QWERTY keyboard, this is almost impossible to do. I can’t wait to send an email in Korean to my folks in [...]

WALTOP Interactive White Board: 75″ Touch Screen at Computex 2008

WALTOP Interactive White Board Specifications
Display: 75″
Active Area: 1540 x 1140 mm (60.2″ x 44.9″)
Resolution: 600 Lpi
Pressure Level: 1024
Report Rate: 200 rps
Multi-Pen: 2 pens in specific areas
Connectivity: USB 1.1 (7 meter cable)
Power Supply: USB Vbus
Power Consumption: 220 mA (max)
Supported OS: Windows XP, Vista, Mac 10.2.5 and above

WALTOP’s Interactive White Board has a display size of 75″ [...]

NVIDIA Powers Audi Q5 MMI

Audi’s new Q5 CUV will be rolling out of factories later this year with some NVIDIA power. NVIDIA’s graphics horsepower will be generating some cool map transitions for Audi’s Multi-Media Interface (MMI) billed as a 3D infotainment system. In addition to map transitions, NVIDIA’s GPU will generate photorealistic graphics of points of interests, etc. I [...]

We Feel Fine

I’m not even sure if I can explain this adequately. Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar has been “harvesting human feelings” from weblogs since August 2005. The”We Feel Fine” system searches through the world’s blog posts for the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling” and then records the rest of the sentence and then [...]