NextGen: PC Design Competition

Vale a pena conferir...Os vencedores serão anunciados em Maio.

Abaixo...um dos finalistas:

"EC challenges the conventional method of inputting instruction through keyboard and mouse; and the traditional user interface resulted from this input method. It cannot be better to control the computer with the instinctive movements of our hands. This not only reduces input hardware, but also enables users to control from anywhere. It accommodates more than one user at the same time and transforms personal computer into a multi-personal platform, which enhances social interaction and communication. This is now Everyone’s Computer.

EC redefines the boundary of a computer. A computer should not be bounded by a solid case, but as the extension of the whole house. The design proposes to unify all computers and electronic devices as one central processing structure with maximum efficiency.

EC introduces another dimension into the system. By replacing the flat 2D desktop by a new 3D interface with new experience.EC, easy for everyone, is the computer of the Next Generation."

Link: Everyone’s Computer (EC)

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Mini-impressora da Polaroid

"O Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer, que a Polaroid criou em parceria com a Zink, promete resolver esse dilema trazendo mobilidade para a impressão digital. Do tamanho de um baralho, essa mini-impressora imprime fotos de 2×3 polegadas em menos de um minuto, via bluetooth ou cabo USB, de qualquer celular, máquina fotográfica ou outro dispositivo portátil que tenha fotos. Com lançamento programado para o fim do ano, deve custar por volta de US$ 150 (e US$ 4 o pacote de 10 folhas para impressão)."

Link: Mobile Photo Printer
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UX em 2020?

"By 2020 the terms "interface" and "user" will be obsolete as computers merge ever closer with humans.

It is one prediction in a Microsoft-backed report drawn from the discussions of 45 academics from the fields of computing, science, sociology and psychology.

It predicts fundamental changes in the field of so-called Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

By 2020 humans will increasingly interrogate machines, the report said.

In turn computers will be able to anticipate what we want from them, which will require new rules about our relationship with machines."

Link: Computers to merge with humans

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