The latest of the Economist’s Technology Quarterly has a survey of the history and state of touch technology.
“The double click does not translate terribly well to touch screens, however. This has led some researchers to look for alternatives. In developing his multi-touch screen, Dr Han found that there can be more to touch input than [...]
Francesco Cara from Nokia talks about the mobile ecosystem.
Link: Evolution of the mobile communication ecosystem (liftconference.com)
Nicholas Nova has collected some references about the history and genesis of game controllers.
Link: Evolution of Game Controllers” (liftlab.com)
Stephen Fry (yes, comic actor of Blackadder, A Bit of Fry and Laurie amongst other things) has a passion for mobile devices, it seems.
“Let’s go back to houses. The sixties taught us, surely, that architectural design, commercial and domestic, is not an extra. The office you work in every day, the house you live in [...]
Stuart Wolpin writes the story of how Motorola created the first handheld cellular phone, the Dynatac.
“A year earlier no one had even been considering the development of a hand-held portable phone. The idea of a mobile telephone was not new; car phones had been around in fairly small numbers for about a quarter-century. But each [...]
How the Sony Walkman came to be.
“There were some cassette recorders available at the time, although they were not designed for the general public. Sony called theirs Pressman and marketed it exclusively to reporters. These recorders lacked stereo sound and were very expensive. They also used (typically) microcassettes, which had no support from record companies [...]
“The purpose of this document is to be a comprehensive timeline of the history of PDAs. Specifically, my intention is to clarify which companies premiered each of the primary front-end features that are considered standard in modern devices, as of the mid/late-1990s commoditization trend.”
Link: The evolution of the PDA: 1975 – 1995
If only mobile technology was as pleasurable, useful and adaptable as the Post It.
“Post-it Notes, on the other hand, were dynamic, customizable, business casual. They inspired spontaneity, rapid ideation, free association. You could link one seemingly unrelated idea to another without worrying about any logical cohesion of ideas; that�s what the glue was for.”
“In an [...]
Published by Gabriel White.