Virtual Piano Tech Pen

virtual piano pen.
sure, the sound and the music are not perfect.
But it is easy to make, to learn.
it must be fun for children to star with it!!!
cool!

Innovation at Google

Innovation at Google

the CIO of Goolge is talking about the innovation at google.
an information search-engine is not the soul of google.
Google is actually an innovation engine.

the most important of a search engine is to create a positive user experience, provide a very high speed and useful (what is really needed) information.

but what is innovation? where is it from?
innovation should base on the user need
surely, the user doesn't really know what they want, BUT they might know what knid of problem they have. so let's start it from the "problems".

a very nice speech. if u have time ;D (51 mins)

sharp just lauched the thinst cellphone display !!

"Sharp is set to show a new, super thin cellphone display at the Flat-Panel Display in Osaka, Japan, tomorrow. The 320 x 240 LCD is just 0.68mm thick"

technology changes design. this is a good example for it ;D

link

Sony Ericsson bluetooth watch MBW 150

Sony Ericsson TimeMaster line is a serie of bluetooth watch, which works as a remote, receiver, coordinator with the "walkman phone". (caution! only walkman phone!)

you will know, who calls u, you can read the sms and u can control ur mp3-player with it. there are tree style:

u know it, i like classic mostly ;D

classic

music

executive

Moto Labs Multi-Touch screen

Moto Labs a very interesting group about interaction design/prototyping.
here they just show, how they make thier multi-touch screen work:
inorder to use this equipment under normal light, they DIDN'T use camera as tracing tool (i still havn't find out, how the trace the finger..maybe touch-sensor? or pressure sensor?)

in the link, we can also find the simulation. it works very fluently and quick.
multi-touch is the most intuitive interface till now.
it aprovides a way, that everyone, who even doesn't have experience with pc, can use/deal with it easily. it is happening NOW.

i think the next issue would be:
how can we use this technology to work on way more complicated tasks, such like text typing, graphic and 3d-modelling, which need a very precise handling. it is extreme interesting to see how far it will go ;D
and maybe i will jump into such kine of projects later...

Designer: Yuta Watanabe

Yuta Watanabe

a japanese product designer. his style is tend to minimalism, just like the objects he designed,
are alle very simple with a single idea and clean design language.

but if we image how these objects works, we would say: it is amazing and philosophical.

what i like mostly is the cast iron pot:



enjoy it ;D

ZKM interaction exibition

the exhibition

though it was already finished

ZKM (Zentrum für Künste und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe.

there were some interesting set up of interaction stuff about music, illution ans so on.
god damn cool. especially, i like the virtuel chords very much.
it is simple, easy idea, but fun to play with it.

It's mean, but funny XD

i have to admit, this video is very mean. but it is really funny.
sorry, if u don't like this kind of humor...
(well, it is really XD...)

enjoy it

the best car-brand for design in 2007

NOW, i am going to nominate the best car-design award in 2007 XD:

HANG CAR DESIGN AWARD 2007:

my friends know that, i am an AUDI fan.
i like the high-quality, sporty, discreet and perfect proportion of AUDI.
AUDI for me is absolute the design-guru since end 90'.

BUT if we talk about these 2 years (2006, 2007), my answeer would be different.

CITROEN!!!

citroen is my personal winer in design.
during these 2 years citroen has made a huge improvement in case of it's design icon.

first of all:
they extend it's logo as the most important design element on the front.
it mens, they didn't change much, but strengthen spirit of the brand!
they have a face with an strong indentity, just like bmw, mercedes, and sure, audi.

second, not only the logo, but also the other elements, especially the lights and grill and so on. they are trying to build cars more generous, more characterized. like a creature (or an automatic robot).

it is iconic now!

Amazing! how the train passes through a market in bangkok

well, what i can say is:

it is really amazing, how it works XD...

to memorize of the sommer ;D

here are some old photos from this sommer.
we had a BBQ party on werder (a small island in magdeburg...)

it is getting colder and darker every day...good bye our sommer ;(

cheers!

a good news...

the partner of my thesis Ziehm Imaging, one of the leading medical x-ray device companys, is planing to implement my concept ;D

isn't that a coooool news !!!!!

i am so happy now ;P

a clean way to create electricity...

the biggiste problem of mobility for me is not the internet signal, but the electricity.
it limits how long u can use ur mobile device on the way.

now the MIT, schcool of achitecture and planning, just introduced a way to create electricity in a nature and simple way : through the human movement.

this project called "crowd farm"

it means, through continuous movement of crowd to produce the eletricity. here is an example:
there are thousend, millions of people walking through / at the central station in NYC. if we can transform this huge amount of movement into electricity, it can be the solution of the energy short or wireless energy for the future.

what they have done is: they made every piece of flagging moveable. every step of human will move the flagging and create a certain energy. it is little, but with continuous thousands of steps, it is a real feasible solution.

the original article.

well, let's talk about the new iPods...

i think every body has sure viewed the new line of ipod's.
for me the biggest change is the ipod nano, so let's start it with ipod nano.

what didn't change is, the colorful, joyful and mobil image.
However what i am surprised about is the proportion, it is much wider now.
it looks just fat and short now. many people have critized the point hard...
i think there are 2 reasons why they did it:

1. because of the bigger display. the features of nano have been definately improved now. we can even view movies and videos. it is a big sell point to attract buyers. just like u buy an ipod nano, but get an ipod video.


2. if u ever have an ipod nano in the hand, u will notice that, it seems much thiner now. (because of the finder edge). u know what, it reminds me on the nokia spot N95



the new nano is just like a small disk of stone, that u pick up and throw on the river. it is not elegant, but it is neat, like something u always carry in ur pocket.

however, the image is similar with the creative zen stoone:


a neat, a little bit square, a stone-like thing. though the production quality is much better than creative, the nano didn't give me a "WOW" in this case. it can be a well sold little thing, but not "the one".

i guess, the ipod nano might just a short term product for the next big step... maybe it is just a trial of apple to see what happens. if it fails, it won't ruin the empire. if it success, great!

so my short opinion:

it is neat, nice to have in the hand, but it is not a "WOW"

I am home again ;D

hello everyone,

have u missed me? (laughing...)
well, i am hoe in germany again now.
so i will start to update my blog again.
sorry, that i didn't do anything here for a long time.

best

CH