Emulator for Traktor Pro

Emulator is ‘the world’s first and only fully customizable, multi-touch software for professional DJs and music producers.’ Creators Smithson Martin are a software development company with a focus on DJ technology, and this is their flagship development. Check out this video example of how flexible the Emulator software is, it can be used on DIY multitouch screen projectors or under multitouch all in one desktops. find out more

Nokia Mobile Flexible User Interface

Hidden within Nokia’s Future Lounge, this very flexible display offers up a glimpse of what sort of thing we could possibly be dealing with when we roll up to Nokia World in 2021. The prototype Nokia Kinetic Device, including its display, can be flexed across both the vertical and horizontal planes — with bending and twisting motions controlling the interface. If you bend the screen towards yourself, it acts as a selection function, or zooms in on any pictures you’re viewing. In music mode, you can navigate, play and pause with the tactile interface. It’s still a way off from arriving on phones, though Nokia is aiming to whet developers’ appetites with this prototype. We may have seen some twisty interfaces already, but nothing packing a four-inch screen and built-in functionality like this. Nokia couldn’t confirm the screen technology being used. Could that be a flexible AMOLED display? See those impressive viewing angles and contortions after the break and judge for yourself.

“A Day Made of Glass” by Corning

Cool concept video by Corning about what can be done using their glass technology in digital and physical environments. Lots of interesting ideas. Where is the multi-user interaction?

Canadian Twitter Based Murals

The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) has launched interactive murals to inspire Americans to book a Canadian vacation. These murals have taken over the streets of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles this summer – pulling content from Twitter to display real-time updates from and about Canada. The digital storescapes celebrate the CTC’s comprehensive social media strategy, and follow its 2009 Marketer of the Year award from Marketing Magazine.

WESC Interactive Window Display Concept by Module Advanced Interface Design

Interactive Window Concept made for the module Advanced Interface Design at Hyper Island hosted by North Kingdom. Links: Beatriz Areilza bareilza.com, Gustaf Engström gustafengstrom.se, Juliana Oliveira Silva cargocollective.com/?julianasilva, Lucas Lima luklima.com, Marcus Wallander lorem-ipsum.se

Surface 2.0 by Microsoft

This new version of Surface is powered by a multicore CPU and GPU by AMD and will be manufactured by Samsung (SUR 40) in a partnership with Microsoft. What’s special about the new version is that the new Surface is just 4? thick and uses the new PixelSense technology where every pixel is an infrared sensor (instead of a camera like the old Surface), making the device slim enough to be wall-mountable. The new Surface also features the biggest piece of Gorilla Glass ever produced. Sinofsky demonstrated the accuracy of the new PixelSense technology by placing a piece of paper in front of the Surface and the device was able to read the text accurately.

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LightSpace by Microsoft Research

LightSpace combines elements of surface computing and augmented reality research to create a highly interactive space where any surface, and even the space between surfaces, is fully interactive. This concept transforms the ideas of surface computing into the new realm of spatial computing. Instrumented with multiple depth cameras and projectors, LightSpace is a small room installation designed to explore a variety of interactions and computational strategies related to interactive displays and the space that they inhabit. LightSpace cameras and projectors are calibrated to 3D real world coordinates, allowing for projection of graphics correctly onto any surface visible by both camera and projector. Selective projection of the depth camera data enables emulation of interactive displays on un-instrumented surfaces (such as a standard table or office desk), as well as facilitates mid-air interactions between and around these displays. For example, after performing multi-touch interactions on a virtual object on the tabletop, the user may transfer the object to another display by simultaneously touching the object and the destination display. Or the user may “pick up” the object by sweeping it into their hand, see it sitting in their hand as they walk over to an interactive wall display, and “drop” the object onto the wall by touching it with their other hand.

MetaMirror AR TV Concepts by Notion Design

Meta-Mirror is a concept application that delivers an enhanced television experience without disrupting the conventional expectations of home entertainment. It allows viewers to access content relevant to the program currently being viewed. The product is a software platform which runs on a secondary device of the users choice, displaying this contextual content over a mirror of the television broadcast. By bringing together live television, real-time contextual information and an intuitive user interface, Meta Mirror is positioned to update television from uni-directional broadcast to two-way interaction. Great projects on Notion’s website.