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Gauges are back!

Leaked photos of an upcoming Samsung camera show memory and battery gauges. Reminds me how wonderful analogue controls and displays are.

Link: New Samsung TL320 (WB100) has OLED display and analog gauges (1001noisycameras.com)

Mobile ambience

The papers from Designing and Evaluating Ambient Information Systems, just completed in Canada this weekend, have been made available online. The proceedings includes some interesting papers, including a paper by Frank Bentley (et al) examining mobile ambience.
“For us, a question we continually face is “How ambient is ambient in a mobile setting?” Is [...]

Puttings small screens next to keys

I’m not sure whether to be excited or terrified by NeoKeys. They’ve removed the labels from the keypad and placed several rows of LCDs above an enlarged keyset. The benefit is that the key behaviors can adapt to context through very specific labeling (fantastic!). The problem is that the keypad layout is fixed for every [...]