{"id":12677,"date":"2008-02-27T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/02\/leather-multitouch-foxy.html"},"modified":"2008-02-27T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T20:47:08","slug":"leather_multitouch_foxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/leather_multitouch_foxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Leather + multitouch = foxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, now that&#8217;s nice: student Nedzad Mujcinovic has crafted &#8220;Livre,&#8221; a concept for a leather-wrapped, multitouch-aware electronic book.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/student.designawards.com.au\/product_images.jsp?appID=3503&amp;imageNumber=3\">Check out the photos<\/a> as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/student.designawards.com.au\/application_detail.jsp?status=2&amp;applicationID=3503\">overview<\/a>.&#160; Could a large <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E-ink\">e-ink<\/a> screen, organic materials, gesture-based navigation, and a minimum of button clutter change the game and make e-books widespread?&#160; It would be fun to find out. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/02\/27\/e-book-concept-combines-leather-and-multi-touch\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>In other cool device news:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Small format:\n<ul>\n<li>Like sketching ideas on cocktail napkins, but wish they were more expensive and susceptible to water damage?&#160; Then perhaps you&#8217;d like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designsojourn.com\/2008\/01\/26\/finally-a-pc-that-every-designer-has-dreamed-about\/\">Napkin PC<\/a>.&#160; Naw, the concept is cooler than that&#8211;especially if you could combine multiple Napkin PCs into a single work area. [Via Jana Sedivy] <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inchwormds.com\/tutorial\/\">Inchworm<\/a> brings sketching and painting to the Nintendo DS.&#160; It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsfanboy.com\/2008\/02\/19\/gdc08-inchworm-mario-paint-meets-photoshop\/\">created by Bob Sabiston<\/a>, the developer of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotoshop\">Rotoshop<\/a>&#8221; software used to create <em>Waking Life<\/em> and <em>A Scanner Darkly<\/em>.  [Via Greg Geisler] <\/li>\n<li>Nokia envisions a future full of shape-shifting phones; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/videos\/nokia_morph_concept_9070.asp\">peep the video<\/a> for their Morph concept. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Multitouch:\n<ul>\n<li>Web developers Cynergy have built a Minority Report-style <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleoag.ru\/2008\/01\/04\/minority-report-like-touchscreen\/\">multitouch interface<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile Mary Jo Foley discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=1087&amp;tag=nl.e622\">some of the latest developments<\/a> in Microsoft&#8217;s multitouch Surface project.&#160; (This one&#8217;s still not setting my hair on fire.) <\/li>\n<li>In a related vein, Dell showed off their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=00mKTEqnzbs\">multitouch  laptop design<\/a>. [Via Jerry Harris] <\/li>\n<li>And, as you almost certainly know already, Apple has brought their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookair\/features.html\">multitouch trackpad<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-13579_3-9879471-37.html?part=dht&amp;tag=nl.e433\">the full line of new MacBooks<\/a>.&#160; Wouldn&#8217;t it be cool if Adobe apps could take advantage of those gestures? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>CNET reports on startup company CeeLite (note: not <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cee-Lo\">the singer<\/a> from Gnarls Barkley) creating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Start-up-creates-flexible-sheets-of-light\/2100-11398-6221720.html?part=dht\">flexible sheets of light<\/a>, useful for wrapping on buses, poles, and other objects.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers at Stanford have revealed details on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-13580_3-9874436-39.html?part=dht&amp;tag=nl.e703\">plenoptic camera<\/a> work. <\/li>\n<li>Alienware offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/video.techrepublic.com.com\/2422-13791_11-183969.html\">cool, curved display<\/a> for widescreen gaming.&#160; I wonder how well it would work for design &amp; photo editing. <\/li>\n<li>Art Lebedev&#8217;s Photoshop-savvy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artlebedev.com\/everything\/optimus\/\">Optimus Maximus<\/a> OLED keyboard (mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/01\/photoshop_keyboard.html\">previously<\/a>) has started shipping.&#160; You can see it being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LvExx3YAyFQ\">set up,<\/a> or you can watch the droll Art himself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3_eDq4uMV8k\">work his geek-fu<\/a> on a real live girl. :-)&#160; [Via Jesse Zibble]  \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, now that&#8217;s nice: student Nedzad Mujcinovic has crafted &#8220;Livre,&#8221; a concept for a leather-wrapped, multitouch-aware electronic book.&#160; Check out the photos as well as the overview.&#160; Could a large e-ink screen, organic materials, gesture-based navigation, and a minimum of button clutter change the game and make e-books widespread?&#160; It would be fun to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677"}],"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=12677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}