Nokia Beta Labs has recently released a beta version of a potentially helpful mobile application for the blind and the visually impaired. The beta application utilizes mobile phone’s vibration as an alternative feedback to the tactile experience of a braille. Personally I have always been interested in this field. I am also [...]

Touch screen interfaces are extremely popular nowadays. However, despite the hype, user satisfaction from using a touch screen device is not as high as it should be. Certainly there are many reasons behind this. However, one particular reason I am going to address here is the Response. When pressing a button [...]

Bump Technologies have came up with a new way to share personal contact information and photos utilizing iPhone’s Peer-to-Peer Bluetooth functionality and motion sensor. Simply run application on both ends, and BUMP one device to the other, the information is sent to the other side. Above all, the application is completely FREE.

Here’s a new shocker from the E3. Perhaps a even more shocker for me than PSP Go. Hmmm. I take that comment back. I was very very VERY shocked with PSP Go, not because of its specifications, but rather the rumor of hideous, not-sony-like design turning out to be true. Anyway, unlike [...]

It’s simply all too good to be true. The new XBox presented at the E3 yesterday seems to have included two controversial technologies, Full body motion capture and Voice Recognition. We have always presumed these two technology to be crude, unfit for the general customers. And of course, I’m very skeptic with [...]

During my recent visit to Hong Kong, I’ve seen friends who can send text messages on their iPhone without even glimpsing at the screen. And by the way, sound was set to mute. Surely they glimpsed at the screen from time to time. However, it was solely for proof purpose! I’m [...]

This is a video of a modeling software that enables designers to create 3D sketches using intuitive gestures interface. Any designer working with 3d modeling tools or have worked with one would drool over this and can’t wait to get a hold on one. From the video, it doesn’t seem to based on [...]

I’ve always thought that the interface introduced in the movie ‘Minority Report’ would someday appear, year far far in the future. Also thought that, Microsoft’s ‘Surface’ is the closest thing we can hope for in the near future.
Well, contrary to my thoughts, Oblong has came up with ‘g-speak’ which is simply mind blowing. [...]

Few months ago, all the images of this homepage was lost during the upgrading of Wordpress. Recently, I’ve found out that it was my fault to make the mistake of copying over the folder using the ftp program, ‘Transmit’. In other words, the reason why I lost all the images for this homepage [...]

▲Panasonic EZ Touch – image from Engadget.com
At CEATEC, Panasonic has revealed a new remote control called the ‘EZ Touch Remote’. What’s interesting about this remote controller is the interface. It is not the typical button interfaced remote controller. It has a touch-pad and a gyro sensor. Since it has touch-pad instead [...]