Good Times & Happy Days

Here’s five futuristic interfaces that were on display at this years SIGGRAPH show.

I’m not sure the best way to describe Ubiquity. So i’ll stick to Mozilla’s description “Today we’re announcing the launch of Ubiquity, a Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.”

Truely amazing facial animation demo from Image Metrics.

13 things that don’t make sense…

Cold fusion, the placebo effect, dark matter & more.

Art Lebedev have announced a new 15 key OLED keyboard.

Well, I must confess i’m not entirely sure what to make of http://www.edopter.com/

“Edopter combines your insight and worldwide buzz to tap into the next big thing. Create and follow trends, share and discuss them – then watch as they spread across the world. Who tells the world what‘s next? You do.”

Certainly an interesting concept, whether it will manage to stay in the social networking game for long, I guess remains to be seen.

Very interesting video showing some of possibilities for component skinning in the upcoming version of Flex.

The Flex 4 SDK beta is available at: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Downloads

What is SwitchBoard?

“SwitchBoard brings together the power of the automation in the Creative Suite applications with the potential for third parties to extend the creative process with new applications produced using AIR. The result is an extensible, powerful, cross-platform environment that can quickly adapt to today’s rapidly changing creative workflows.”

Abobe SwitchBoard @ AdobeLabs

I personally plan to test SwitchBoard out in detail with Photoshop on an upcoming project i’m about to commence work on. Stay tuned for more information on that!