Monthly Archive for May, 2008

Wii Surfing

Some German students rigged a Wii fit to their PC for some Silver Surfer style action over Google Earth.

via Core77:

Bill Buxton gets his way…

Radial Menus (aka Pie Menus) make it into Windows 7 (eta 2010), presumably for tablet and touch devices.

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Bill Buxton was a UX (User eXperience) designer for Alias where Radial Menus were implemented for Maya and Sketchbook. He now works for M$. Personally, I like Radial Menus and think that they would have made sense for the iPhone, but Apple seems to hate them. (iRonic, huh?)

via CrunchGear

Chad Pugh creation-cast Science Machine on Vimeo

This guy is just awesome!

DimP is PimP

DimP is a Direct Manipulation Video player that allow users to drag items on the video screen at their rate of motion to move with the cursor. A great gift for investigators and folks that want to feel like they’re controlling time and space.

Finally, a good use for multi-touch

Missle Command + Multi-touch = Yes!

GreenPix

GreenPix is a massive wall of LED lights purely powered by solar energy. It is a true testament for sustainable design.

Greenpix

via Engadget