While attending a recent conference on mobile software platforms, I was struck by the amount of attention given to the future of advertising on mobile devices.
More public spaces could be about to get the Times Square treatment
In my
last blog I talked about Tangible Computing; the use of physical properties of objects to represent and manipulate data. In contrast today I would like to think about our use of graphical displays.
The ever falling cost of high-quality flat display technology is
enabling moving graphics to be shown on an ever wider set of devices
and surfaces. A modern living-room may now contain not only a highly
capable large display television set, but also the screens of mobile
phones, media players, computers and digital picture frames.
Unipalm-Pipex was two businesses. PIPEX the ISP and Unipalm a software reseller. While they were both involved with computer networking, their business models were totally different.
The Samsung Instinct
As I said in my recent blog entry on emerging input technologies, touchscreen devices are all the rage at the moment. Since the launch of the Apple iPhone nearly two years ago, all of the major mobile phone manufacturers have been racing to get out their own competitors, each claiming a shinier, more "intuitive" interface than the others.
In my last blog I talked about how our relationships with others are being mediated by technology, making the usability and simplicity of these system ever more important. Today I'd like to think a little more broadly about new approaches that make computing accessible to all, specifically the potential for Tangible Computing.
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