Category Archives: Interesting discoveries
Family Tree of Video Game Controllers
A first peek at Windows 8
Very excited to see the Windows 8 UI. It’s using a Metro-inspired look and feel which is long overdue and will definitely change how we use PC’s.
More from All Things Digital 9.

A very thorough dissection of the Windows 8 UI exists here.
Making the intangible, tangible.
“The Institute for Digital Biology researches next steps in the evolution of the internet, where websites and services develop into living creatures.”
This scenario lives in the mind of Walewijn den Boer, graduated from KABK in 2010.
During the exhibition, visitors were able to feed a colony of microscopical pop-up creatures, save Chinese websites from a pageview-shortage, preserve an Amazone tribe from extinction by subscribing to its homepage and view a short documentary on how the living internet established itself
via http://www.nextnature.net/2011/01/the-institute-for-digital-biology/
Arduino: The Documentary
Bill Buxton: ‘NUI – What’s in a Name?’
Ra.One – India’s first Sci-fi film after Enthiran

Anything Hollywood does, Bollywood ‘adapts’ and does even better!
We still don’t know much about the film, except that SRK’s character is called G.One, and he’s some sort of superhero — and above is our first look at him.
A bit of backstory: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) was set to star inEnthiran, the killer-robot movie from director S. Shankar, but left that project over creative differences. But then Enthiran turned out to be a megahit — and there was a lot of talk that the story and action set-pieces in Ra.One were way too similar toEnthiran. So Ra.One has had to be retooled to make it different, and more time is being spent in post-production beefing up the effects, delaying the release from the first half of 2011 to around October.
Link here.
SCA Multitouch Prototype by Interactive Institute
An awesome prototype done by my friend Ru Zarin at the Interactive Institute and other colleagues and partners. Awesome stuff!
The Anatomy of Cool

cool is what stands up – what makes you take a notice and appreciate something beyond the norm. When you see a product or a design or creation and your mind just screams at the want of it – or the appreciation to understand it more fully – that is cool.
MultiTouch in cinema
Been working lots lately on multi-touch technology (both on MS Surface, iPhones and other projects).
Just thought it would be interesting to jot down my list of favorite multi-touch technology visions as seen on film.
Minority Report (duh!)

James Bond Quantum of Solace –


District 9

Iron Man 2

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The Island (thx Mattias!)

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