Centripetal Notion: category

A website with beautiful photography of the world’s forests and some killer interactive design. I haven’t seen something this good since Earth Pilgrim or the site for Ashes and Snow.

Andy Wilson’s work in human-computer interaction is the stuff dreams are made of.

Here’s a good idea?: a mutual fund based on companies with exceptional user experience — including Apple, EA, Google, Jet Blue, Netflx, Nike, Progressive, RIM, Target and Yahoo.

Futuresonic 2006 was back in July so this is a little dated, but I just came across what looks like complete video coverage of Toshio Iwai’s talk and performance. Iwai is a prolific designer of interactive media and most recently, electronic musical instruments.

Make custom Google maps with your own annotations and scribbles.

As you turn your body light travels through embedded wires that vine around the jacket, illuminating which direction is north. If it were dark, you could tell which way you were traveling by watching the glow from the corners of your eyes.

I just started watching Ze Frank’s daily news/humor show, er… The Show, last week and have slowly become addicted. Judging from today’s episode, and the number of references I’ve seen online over the weekend, it seems the rest of the internet has gotten addicted right a long with me. Go ahead, click the link. All the cool mice are doing it.

I wasn’t going to mention SXSW at first for the sake of overexposure, but as more and more interesting material keeps pouring in, not to mention the 9rules network (with which I am affiliated) taking the prize for best community site of the year, I had to touch on it to make sure everyone who reads this is at least aware of the content I’m (just getting around to) enjoying right now.

The last post on multi-touch interaction reminded me of the Touchlight interface I saw at last year’s SIGGRAPH. Here’s some video I took of its creator, Andrew Wilson, explaining a prototype, and an earlier video of him outlining the workings in more detail.

“While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.”