Signs
You might have already seen this one. Its one of the 2009 Cannes Lions winners!
A simple short film about communication. Created by Publicis Mojo and @RadicalMedia Director: Patrick Hughes
A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture
I’m tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The “This will work in the next version.” The “It’s in our roadmap.” The “Buy now and upgrade later.” The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn’t tested enough before reaching our hands. The feeling now extends to hardware: Everything is built to end up in the trash a year later, still half-baked, to make room for the next hardware revision. I’m tired of this beta culture that has spread like metastatic cancer in the last few years, starting with software from Google and others and ending up in almost every gadget and computer system around. We need a change.
http://gizmodo.com/5083371/a-call-for-revolution-against-beta-culture
Project Natal & Natural User Interfaces
You Are the Controller.
Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun — the only experience needed is life experience.
Microsoft’s Project Natal is supposed to be the new way to play games. No controller required, is how it is being positioned.
What is truly amazing is the way, it introduces a new ( yet very old) concept: Natural User Interfaces. A new Man-machine interface that does not require keyboards, mice, trackpads, lightpens etc. You just need to be natural, behave as if you are interacting with another person, and you’re good to go.
You can watch this excellent demo:
and visit the Project Natal Home Page
