The New Movement |
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16:11 /
10.01.2007
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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? |
Yes, some poignant suggestions for the future indeed - at last technology is evolving in a biological manner, so that we can finally move beyond just a screen and use our physicality in making a telephone call, playing a game, etc. I'm excited by the possibilities of the relationship of dexterity in digital worlds. Hope the sun is shining in CA!
Posted by Robin Rimbaud
01:31 / 11/01/2007
01:31 / 11/01/2007
Exciting opportunities indeed are offered by these technological innovations. It will be interesting to see how the interactive dynamics of these objects will present themselves on our daily physicality. (e.g. We are all aware of how much the sony walkman greatly affected our understanding of personal and public space). Also, the design of much iconography seems to be struggling with the proliferation of 'invisible' properties (how do you represent 'infrared'?) or the multi-functional attributes of such creations (e.g. The logo for the mobile on the iphone is one based on handsets from a bygone era).
Posted by Marcus Leis Allion
06:28 / 11/01/2007
06:28 / 11/01/2007
Furthermore, something is also removed in the design of many such devices–namely, manipulability. The possibilities of re-writing the rules are being isolated and governed by the developer and no longer the end user. Interaction and interpretation of the world is becoming increasingly complicated by the use of technology (e.g. digital rights management) and the abuse of intellectual property laws. It may be worth pointing towards an example to clarify my point. Hip-Hop, had it not already existed, could not emerge with our current market enforced restrictions on creativity.
Posted by Marcus Leis Allion
06:29 / 11/01/2007
06:29 / 11/01/2007
As is noted in the post, the possibilities of the technology are 'endless'. Unfortunately the assumptions dictated by economic ‘reality’ along with the extreme punishments for breaking the new laws (predicated on corporate interests, rather than argued democratically) put a finite restriction on that potential. What could we create, together, were these sanctions to be negated? As you are probably aware, many people are discovering the results of such thinking with so called copyleft works proliferating the internet. Rather than seeing this as 'free' work, it may be more beneficial to understand it as a creation/preservation of common culture. A commonality created by all for all.......so, anyone for discursive politics as The New Movement?
Posted by Marcus Leis Allion
06:29 / 11/01/2007
06:29 / 11/01/2007
I guess Apple saw this presentation last year http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han
Posted by mate
02:42 / 12/01/2007
02:42 / 12/01/2007
good.
Posted by re.norwaywood
22:13 / 13/01/2007
22:13 / 13/01/2007
the multitouch technology is from jeff han. his stuff runs actually on os-x and his tech was involved in the iphone ui construction.
Posted by smartiepants
07:56 / 14/01/2007
07:56 / 14/01/2007
LG and Prada are claiming they got the drop in the touch screen:
http://news.agendainc.com/mt-agenda/content/archives/2007/01/prada_and_lg_la.html
The floodgates are now open.
http://news.agendainc.com/mt-agenda/content/archives/2007/01/prada_and_lg_la.html
The floodgates are now open.
Posted by Boicozine
06:05 / 19/01/2007
06:05 / 19/01/2007
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