{"id":12553,"date":"2007-11-13T18:20:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T18:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/11\/your-interface-blows-literally.html"},"modified":"2007-11-13T18:20:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T18:20:48","slug":"your_interface_blows_literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/13\/your_interface_blows_literally\/","title":{"rendered":"Your interface blows (literally)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re waiting for Photoshop to connect with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/11\/clarification_o.html\">Martian ocular implants<\/a>, researchers have been busy building crafty new interface tech.&#160; Photoshop engineer John Peterson writes, &quot;Some folks at the Georgia Institute of Technology have<br \/>\nfound a way to do cursor control\/selection by blowing on the<br \/>\nscreen.  The amazing part is it needs no extra hardware, they just<br \/>\nuse the microphone already built in to your laptop.&quot;&#160; Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=34SEmMxbNkQ\">the video<\/a>, as well as the team&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shwetak.com\/papers\/uist07_blui.pdf\">research paper<\/a> (PDF). <\/p>\n<p>Apparently others have had the same idea.&#160; Photoshop UI designer Julie Meridian reports, &quot;The Nintendo DS has a built-in microphone and does something similar for<br \/>\ngames, like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warioware.biz\/touched\/launch\/\">WarioWare Touched!<\/a><\/em> where the goals are things like blowing<br \/>\nup balloons, flying a kite, etc.&quot;&#160; And we&#8217;ve joked about enabling blowing on natural media simulations in order to do things like moving or drying ink. <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the New UI front, Bryan Hughes points out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/11\/12\/all-vw-models-to-get-touch-screens\/\">all new Volkswagens are due to get touch screens<\/a>.&#160; If I ever upgrade my Jetta (damn 1.8 mi commute making that unlikely), maybe I can look forward to doing an iPhone style pinch to zoom in on a map&#8211;as I zoom into a ravine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re waiting for Photoshop to connect with Martian ocular implants, researchers have been busy building crafty new interface tech.&#160; Photoshop engineer John Peterson writes, &quot;Some folks at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a way to do cursor control\/selection by blowing on the screen. The amazing part is it needs no extra hardware, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}