Recently I’ve had a run in with Amazon whom failed to deliver my Epson printer, which I patiently waited 10 days for. I did get a refund, but in disgust of the wait time, I ran over to Best Buy to try to pick up the same printer. Instead I find another.
More innovation coming out of Palo Alto, Benedikt Steinhoff designs an intelligent lighting system of rim mounted hardware and LEDs called Revolights, which is able to project lighting from the front and back, as well as the sides of your biking path. These lights visibility in the darkness to improve safety measures for bikers sharing the road.
Finally Adobe introduces a new tool to its creative family suite of software for creating animated web content using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. Currently a preview, Adobe Edge is available free for download for the next couple of months. Not only is this a much needed response from Adobe, necessary to keep up with the web. But also an inherent need for animation on the web without having to rely on such piggy back technologies such as Flash, which plagues the open web, and slows down our mobile devices with memory hogging websites, and worse annoying animated banner ads.
There are other applications that have already gone this route, despite Adobe’s ability to create a tool that will better work with all its standard graphic tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. However times have changed, and there’s a recent surge of great javascript based plug-ins just waiting to be downloaded and used within an app such as this. Can Adobe rustle up this already-in-place community of developers in opposition of it’s own dominating close-sourced Flash tools?
This wooden keyboard designed by Michael Roopenian “uses nature’s tactility to strengthen the relationship between user and interface.” The new device improves the experience in typing using sensitivity within our finger tips to determine specific keys being touched, while lavishly offering our fingers the gift of wood. The design mimics the waves found in the patterns of wood grain to bring together a design solution that offers uniformity in design, giving each key its own unique and necessary touch experience.
It was a hot sunny Sunday New York afternoon and thousands showed up to McCarren Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to check out the Red Bull Creations event challenging top inventors to build something imaginative and inspiring.
The crowd was sun blazed as two large screens overseeing the main stage with musical performances projecting audio and visuals into the audience by musical performers. By midday, the music stopped and talented teams of inventors were introduced on the left and right side stages of the park.
Back in 2007, Steve Jobs didn’t think that a tablet that required a stylus was a device you could trust, saying “If you see a stylus, they blew it.” Plunging the stake into every tablet/ pda predecessor that came before the iPad and the future ones that will follow its lead. With that all done and said, what remains as a missing device in the world of the iPad is a drawing device that can encapsulate my natural ability to draw and sketch on the iPad. [...]