{"id":15981,"date":"2009-08-17T07:05:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T07:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/08\/cool-interface-demos-o-the-day.html"},"modified":"2009-08-17T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T07:05:04","slug":"cool_interface_demos_o_the_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/17\/cool_interface_demos_o_the_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool interface demos o&#039; the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/technology\/slap_widgets_virtual_controls_you_can_touch_13128.asp\">SLAP Widgets<\/a> are &#8220;real live plastic and silicone objects that are used in conjunction with a multi-touch table to allow users to control interface values through physical push buttons, sliders, knobs, keypads and keyboards.&#8221;  Here&#8217;s a very cool (albeit slow-loading) <a href=\"http:\/\/hci.rwth-aachen.de\/~weiss\/SLAP\/paper1356-weiss.mov\">video of the system in action<\/a>*.  (Can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slapchop.com\/ver15\/index.asp\">Slap Chop<\/a> integration be far behind?)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontplore.org\/\">Fontplore<\/a> is &#8220;an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases&#8230; It does all that on an interactive table, using tangible objects to navigate and control actions.&#8221;  The site includes a brief video demo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I keep wanting to see great font exploration &amp; management built into Adobe apps.  TypeDNA offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typedna.com\/plugin.html\">cool Photoshop-plug-in<\/a>, using optical character recognition to determine a given font&#8217;s name, suggesting font harmonies, and more.  I&#8217;d like to see these concepts taken even farther, offering browsing, comparison, activation, and purchase in all Suite apps via Flash panels.<\/p>\n<p><em>* Who knew that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Total_internal_reflection\">Frustrated Total Internal Reflection<\/a> is a multitouch technology &amp; not just the story of my teenage years (okay, most of my years). <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SLAP Widgets are &#8220;real live plastic and silicone objects that are used in conjunction with a multi-touch table to allow users to control interface values through physical push buttons, sliders, knobs, keypads and keyboards.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a very cool (albeit slow-loading) video of the system in action*. (Can Slap Chop integration be far behind?) Fontplore is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,9,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}