This is the BBC - but for how much longer? Nobody knows what connected products will mean for their business, and with Sandbox we’re here to help. The mega-trend is this: The network is the new electricity.
Connecting products is the new electrification. There are leaders in this field. My personal favourites are the Amazon Kindle, for using connected hardware to put the shop inside the book. And, less well known but just as amazing, Vitality GlowCap for using the network to add behavioural economics to pill-bottle lids, to make sure you finish your prescription! And of course, the connected products on Kickstarter are a massive future-discovery effort too. The difficulty is that, for a particular business, no-one really knows what opportunities you get from network-enabling hardware products. And because there are so few great models to mimic, unless you try out your connected products while you make them, they’re not so great. We’re all learning. Let me tell you our story… * Exploring the future with prototypes At BERG, we made the first magazine on the iPad with Bonnier, and we’ve prototyped videophones with Google. Little Printer. The future of search ... made simple - an animated guide.
HDR Video on Canon 5D Mark III - "Bodie" The Revolution in Photography - Rob Walker. Bryan Christie When a set of online teasers for a new camera called the Lytro appeared earlier this year, you could have been forgiven for seeing the invention as just another gimmick.
The camera’s attention-grabbing feature is a kind of after-the-fact autofocus: with a click, any blurry portion in a picture can be snapped into sharpness—another step in the march of idiot-proof photography. In fact, such image correction is merely a side effect of what is genuinely different about the technology. The Lytro, scheduled to reach buyers early next year, creates a wholly new kind of visual object, one that both exemplifies and exploits the way images are consumed in the digital era.
The underlying technique is called “light-field photography.” The upshot is a photograph that’s less a slice of visual information than a cube, from which you can choose whichever layer would make the most pleasing two-dimensional image for printing and framing. That’s what Lytro’s founder, Ng, wants to hear. Summit of Ideas & Digital Invention – March 2013. Jump to nav Jump to content Home / News Filter by category: Filter by year/author: 24th April, 2014 GMDSP: Call for Code Fellows By: Simon Webbon 17th April, 2014 Festival Highlights 31st March, 2014 FutureEverything is bringing Smart Citizen to the UK with Intel By: Drew Hemment 28th March, 2014 Read all about it: City Fictions on cover of Evening News 20th March, 2014 2014 Festival: Conference – Data Economy 19th March, 2014 2014 Festival: Design Takeover By: Jose Luis de Vicente.
Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - Multimedia Feature. Leap Motion: First Impressions - Magpie Mentality. My Leap Motion dev kit arrived in the week, yey!
I’ve only had a couple of evenings with it but first impressions are good. The device itself is tiny (about lighter sized), lightweight and very well made. It has a nice grippy base with the logo etched into it which stops it being dragged around by a stiff USB cable, very thoughtful! The micro USB connector is on one end with a indicator LED on the other and that’s about it.
The only other thing of note is a second set of connection pins alongside the standard USB ones, maybe indicating that the hardware is set-up with some future-proofing in mind?! There is loads of information on the net about the device and what it can do so I won’t bore you with a sales pitch here, let’s just dive right in… Getting stuck in Set-up was quick and easy. Most of the development I will be doing with the Leap Motion will initially be browser based (JavaScript). Research and Development: Surround Video! Yes! SURROUND VIDEO! The internet's next big frontier. Social Login Buttons Aren’t Worth It. I stumbled across a very disturbing number in our analytics earlier this year.
From April 12 to May 12, 2012, we had 340,591 failed login attempts. That’s the total number of times someone tried to get into MailChimp to get their work done and couldn’t remember their username and/or password, or simply mistyped. Think of how much wasted time and frustration that translates to. It’s impossible to calculate, but let’s just say it’s a lot. Of the people who struggled logging in, 68,145 had to resort to resetting their password, and 38,137 had to get a reminder about their username.
These numbers were depressing to the User Experience team. These compelling stats and sound logic convinced us (and so many others) that adding social login buttons to our app were essential to improving our depressing failure rate. "I feel strongly about this. " I was blown away and dumbfounded by the value of social login buttons. I was, um, not super happy to get that email.