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Published by Gabriel White.
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Shredding on a Keyboard
JamLegend, a Guitar Hero / Rock Band service for the PC, piqued my interest just because of the illustration that showed how you can play along with your keyboard by holding it guitar-style. It spurred the thought: how can we hold ordinary objects in different ways so that they become different things entirely?
Link: JamLegend [...]
MEX design competition
MEX is hosting a design competition of sorts – encouraging people to showcase design ideas (or new products) for mobile. Here are some of them.
The Blind Phone concept seems to a bit of a dexterity obstacle course – I’m not sure how you could dial with a pinky finger and keep a decent grip [...]
Shorthand’s back?
IBM has come up with a tiny touch-based “keyboard” that uses “shorthand” for input. I saw one of the guys who invented give a presentation about the design, and it seems like a very compelling idea.
“Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding takes advantage of the expressive jotting capabilities in pen-based computing devices. It enables the user to write [...]