Archive for September, 2008
Swype a new way to input text on touch-screens.
This new technology called Swype is nothing more than amazing. it allows a new paradigm of text-input for touch screens. Best is having a look on this video from Cnet recorded at the Techcrunch50.
Swype
Dating through genetic compatibility
A brand new startup called GenePartner based in Switzerland propose a dating service based on genetic compatibility testing. Here is the discription they provide on the website:
At GenePartner we are dedicated to help you find your ideal life partner. Our formula is based on research on hundreds of couples and analyzes the pattern of genetic [...]
Matthew Frederick’s Architecture design principles
After reading the recent post of LukeW, the temptation to steal some of the insights have been to hard. Here is my own selection among the selection of Matthew Frederick’s good design principles from “101 Things I Learned in Architecture School.
The more specific a design idea is, the greater its appeal is likely to be. [...]
Touching virtual objects thanks to ultrasonic waves
An exciting news on bbc reports on a new groundbreaking first results of a Japanese research team about integrating computing and sense of touch (haptics). Takayuki Iwamoto and colleagues use ultrasound waves to simulate the touch sense in the air for virtually simulated objects.
Sound is a pressure wave, meaning that as the inaudible sound waves [...]
Google Chrome: the firefox killer?
Google annonced through a comic book the launch of its own web-browser called Chrome. The tool seems to be rather minimalistic so far but will obviously provide a better integration of the google tools and services as google-bar, Picasa, Gmail and so on. I am wondering about the rationale behind the launch of this browser, [...]
