Ricardo Sato

Andres Jimenez, Interaction Designer, led today’s brown bag lunch and walked us through various aspects of creating physical computing networks and devices for home automation, location awareness and status sharing. We were intrigued by his objects that posted mood and status updates to Twitter.

Inside the GPS revolution it's more than maps and driving directions: location-aware phones and apps now deliver the hidden information that lets users make connections and interact with the world in ways they never imagined. The future is here and it's in your pocket.

The power of ultrasonic waves has been harnessed to produce "virtual" objects in mid-air.

Shinoda Lab
(The University of Tokyo)
@SIGGRAPH2008 New Tech Demos

In an upcoming issue of IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Ig Mo Koo, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, and co-authors from Sungkyunkwan University and the University of Nevada explain how they have designed the innovative tactile display based on soft actuator technology. Overcoming the rigidity and bulkiness of current devices, the new display is soft and flexible enough to be wrapped around almost any part of the human body, such as the fingertip, palm, or arm.

At TAT, we thrive on innovating, creating new and unique ways of interacting with devices. We produce a number of concept-based futuristic UIs focusing on trends, predications, and possibilities that one can only dream about. We create opportunities for these to potentially exist and envision the way they could affect the mobile and social world.

We started doubleTwist because we were disappointed by the quality of software applications offered by the major device manufacturers. We wanted to build a universal media application that helps people quickly and easily play all their stuff, on all their devices and share their experiences with all their friends.
Our vision is to provide for media what the browser achieved for the web: a single, streamlined interface that connects to any device, media source or network.