The New Movement
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16:11 /
10.01.2007
Matt Pyke
Sheffield
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Fresh with the buzz of being in the epicentre of the Apple iPhone launch here in San Francisco, and the shock and awe found even in the Apple campus in Cuperinto (where i am writing this from), i'm already crazy excited by the implications of what the iPhone can offer in interactive design potential. First of the sensors, proximity, leads to Theramin-esque music games and ball-bouncing. The tilt sensor to marble mazes, shaking your phonecall participants around the screen, the light sensor to create plasma-lamp, disco-light home accessories. The Multi-Touch Interface pioneered by Jeff Han leads to a fuller use of our dexterity as engagement with software - the feeling of using your body to interact, like the fantastic Wii, makes using conventional, now neanderthold, mobile phones feel like fiddling with a box of matches. Plenty of sceptics have already risen to the occassion to poo-poo the lack of tactile buttons, but we humans adapt and this evolution is going to bring the internet to life, it felt too much like work sitting at a desk surfing the www.......so, anyone want to buy my phone? |
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