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.
Adobe Edge
Aug 1, ’11
1:42 PM
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?
Koalas to the Max
Jul 24, ’11
5:00 PM
A little site I came Koalas to the Max, which fuses some experimental interactivity using simple geometric circles to reveal a hidden Easter Egg. Made with love by Vadim Ogievetsky for Annie Albagli.
Visualizing the web in 3d
Jul 20, ’11
3:45 PM
Tilt a little remarkable cool Firefox extension tool that poses to not only be useful, but also fun. It visualizes DIVS and other HTML code as stacks and presents them as three-dimensional layered objects.
This extension was so much fun, here are a few of the sites I visited, and captured their results:
Lormify
Jul 18, ’11
10:08 PM
Very few widgets occupy my dashboard these days. Especially ones I can find very useful for projects that require a drop, a plop or a pinch of Lorem Ipsum. I installed Lormify, and out of the box, a very quick and easy-to-use tool that will get you generating Lorem Ipsum like a rockstar within seconds.
Tactile Wooden Keyboard
Jul 12, ’11
6:11 PM
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.