Functioning Form - Thoughts on Time's Tablet Magazine Concept. Time Inc. recently released a video demo (below) of their Sports Illustrated magazine designed for a touchscreen tablet.
Though such a networked consumer device platform is not yet widely distributed, it seems there was enough speculation and early attempts out there to convince Time Inc. to invest in exploring. The demo includes a lot of what you'd expect in a digital magazine: rich multimedia experiences with photos and videos; real time content updates over the network; multi-touch controls; and even a bit of gaming. However, the entire concept might be too rooted in how physical magazines are constructed and designed today. From the literal representation of the magazine's cover (as it appears on news stands today) to the magazine-style article layouts, a lot of the printed format is front and center in this vision of a new digital format.
Journalism as Software: digital devices can turn news into an application people can interact with. IKEA iPhone Catalogue. Medicine Management System for the Elderly by Ying-Chien Lin, Y. Managing Medicines I once asked an aged uncle of mine, how come he got by without taking any medicines in his life.
He smirked and told me his secret; he had a bad memory so he simply kneaded all his pills into the roti and ate it! Ok, the joke may be silly but the situation is real, forgetting to take your pills on time is a common problem amongst many elderly people. Hence the Medicine Management System for the Elderly makes perfect sense, it makes them independent. The system is interactive and the electronic pill boxes are super neat! Use touch screen as the interface of medicine query system to simplify process.Scan the bar code to acquire the name and information of medicines.Prompt the elders to take medicine regularly by voice and vibration.Doctors can transmit the information of medical treatment to the electronic pill-box.
Designers: Ying-Chien Lin, Yue-Hua Li & Wei-Yin Su Supervisor: Hsien-Hui Tang an. Blio eReader. Apple Tablet PC for IKEA? S i x t h s e n s e - a wearable gestural interface (MIT Media. 'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.
We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions to take. But arguably the most useful information that can help us make the right decision is not naturally perceivable with our five senses, namely the data, information and knowledge that mankind has accumulated about everything and which is increasingly all available online. Although the miniaturization of computing devices allows us to carry computers in our pockets, keeping us continually connected to the digital world, there is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world. . . . some more pictures are coming soon.
Chumby › internet radio player, digital picture frame, alarm clo. The Future of News, Tablets, and Business Models - Articles - Ba. There is much talk these days about tablets and ereaders.
Not only do we have the constant rumor that Apple is making one, but it seems like every newspaper on the planet see them as the "prophet" that will save them from their doom. Lately, a very impressive tablet reader was showcased to the world - the Time Inc. tablet, featuring how "Sports Illustrated" would work. It certainly looks impressive. I will even go as far as to call it stunning. No wonder why people call it the future of news... except it isn't.
This isn't the future of news. Is it a horse or a car? A long time ago, when the world was changing how we moved around, Henry Ford said, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. " He knew that the answer to a faster horse was to build a car. The tablet of "Sports Illustrated" isn't a car. There is no change here, there is no real innovation.
What we really want Let's face it, the newspaper industry is dying because they are no longer needed.