Wireless low-cost interface at The Techwear Weblog

The future of RFID? The potential to make currrent RFID's obsolete? Interesting student project for summer term 2005: "In contrast to RFIDs, where the tag side is always an autonomous system and the base station always immobile, we are more interested in using inductive coupling for a serial, bi-directional interface, which is light and mobile." Second entry on the page: Wireless low-cost interface [D-ITET, SA/DA, 1..2]I would love to be in swiss this summer. [...] Read More


Vertebral wireless interface at The Techwear Weblog

Or strange headset design - but somehow fascinating. Here is your "Headset with attitude" The Synapse has twin earpieces with individual touch-sensitive controls, is mutable with a single tap and volume adjusts with the swipe of a finger. It has twin throat microphones to enable discrete conversations via your mobile phone and it isn't going to come loose because the pretensioned arms provide a secure fit that moves with you. The [...] Read More


The concept of the Social Interface (SI) at The Techwear Weblog

An outstanding designer is someone who is able to see and know what the future is about. And so is wearable art - a look into what will happen the next years. It's just different to Wired and the "tech future scene". Wearable art is about our social life. Even in times of Web 2.o and "social" networks - real life is still much bigger then the "use of interactive [...] Read More


Hitachi 1.5 at The Gadgets Weblog

It appears that thin is in when it comes to HDTV's, and Hitachi is most certainly no exception to this rule. Hitachi's newest model is the 1.5, named because that is the measurement of its thickness in inches. I realize this might not be much compared to the 9mm Project KURO from Pioneer that I covered yesterday, but the 1.5 is farther along than the development stage. The features include a [...] Read More


Nokia's New User Interface an iPhone Look-alike at The Mobile Technology Weblog

As expected, everybody wants to be iPhone lately. Take for instance this patent filed by Nokia in June 2007 for its own version of multi-touch user interface. Lacking in creativity, it's named Nokia S60 Touch. This UI is not exactly an iphone clone. In some ways, it hopes to take multi-touch technology to the next level for it can track hand movements and three-dimensional gestures without actually touching the screen. Will [...] Read More