It’s just a concept at this stage, but Clayton Miller’s 10/GUI project is getting people’s attention. It proposes a way multi-touch might work in the desktop scenario – detached from the screen, like a giant trackpad, or tablet. It’s hard to see it working perfectly, or being as universally applicable as the trusty mouse, but [...]
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Reintroducing
Media convergence XPLANEd
by Grant on 16 September 2009 in Design, Geeky
XPLANE are well known for their clarity-causing diagrams and illustrations. It’s nice to see them branching out into motion graphics like this one for The Economist’s Media Convergence conference.
Bang! Or not.
by Grant on 26 August 2009 in Geeky
A slick short video about the origins of the universe. Funny that it’s called the big bang, when there’s no sound in space. It still amazes me that some people spend so much time working out what happened all those billions of years ago – with the knowledge it may have little or no consequences [...]
Evolution 101
by Grant on 29 May 2009 in Geeky
A well paced overview of evolution that responds to some of the most common misconceptions about it.
Reintroducing
Montage-a-google
by Grant on 13 May 2009 in Flash, Fun, Geeky
Over 5 years after it was initially launched, I’m happy to have a new version of Montage-a-google up for people to play with and enjoy. The new version has many of the features people have been asking for over the years: Saving montages – It’s now easy to download a jpg of any montage you [...]
Vimeo’s fun with auto-tuning
by Grant on 12 May 2009 in Fun, Geeky, Music
Vimeo’s Auto Tuning video has been online for a couple of months now, but it’s still giving me joy. I thought it was worth sharing on the off chance someone’s missed it – although I suspect you need to be in the web-design scene to fully get it.
Moon Buggy Honeymoon
by Grant on 19 February 2009 in Fun, Geeky, Music
My friend Simon, being a poorly student but unfairly talented, decided to make Lorin and I a song for our wedding present. The song had to include specific words, phrases and concepts that we got to choose. Amazingly, he managed to pull it all together into this classic track called “Moon Buggy Honeymoon”. Listen to [...]
Daddy, where did the internet come from?
by Grant on 8 January 2009 in Geeky
An animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file-sharing, from arpanet to internet. Via Read write web.
And you thought multi-touch was cool
by Grant on 5 January 2009 in Geeky, UI and UX
From Fresh Creation: Tan Le, co-founder and president of Emotiv Systems, gives a live demo of a mind control device that uses a person’s thoughts to input computer commands.
Wikipedia – well worth supporting
by Grant on 1 January 2009 in Geeky
I love Wikipedia. Sometimes I’ll end up referencing it several times in one day – and I bet you do too. It truly is an invaluable resource – and well worth supporting. Go on, click on the button below and donate a little cash to keep one of the best parts of the net going.
