Top 15 Kanban Tools In An Agile World Kanban, also spelled kamban and literally meaning "signboard" or "billboard", is a concept related to lean and just-in-time (JIT) production. According to Taiichi Ohno, the man credited with developing Just-in-time, kanban is one means through which JIT is achieved. Kanban is not an inventory control system. Rather, it is a scheduling system that tells you what to produce, when to produce it, and how much to produce. In our continuous effort to bring you the most powerful software tools built for all the requirements of global IT Community across various categories we have been listing the best tools in each of the categories across software development life cycle. In this article lets have a look at over 10 of the best "Kanban" tools available in the market.
FORM 1: An affordable, professional 3D printer by Formlabs Are you frustrated that low-end 3D printers don’t have the quality to make the true beauty of your designs real? Do you dream of having the power and resolution of a truly professional machine on your desktop? We’ve created an easy-to-use system that rivals the output of high-end printers at a fraction of the cost. Our reason for starting this project is simple: there are no low-cost 3D printers that meet the quality standards of the professional designer. As researchers at the MIT Media Lab, we were lucky to experience the best and most expensive fabrication equipment in the world. Apple's latest patent grab looks like they might move to haptic feedback, reshapes your touchscreen If we were to go off of the patent pictured below, it looks as though Apple haver finally found the perfect way to solve the issue with touchscreen keyboards discarding the physical keyboard in favor of this new technology. Haptic technology would allow touchscreen manufacturers to deliver physical feedback when a user touches a button, tries to type on the devices on-screen keyboard, or just interacts in general with the screen. No physical keyboard plus haptic technology could be the perfect middle ground. The current haptics on most smartphones are nothing but a quick vibration, and not a full solution. Apple's way seems to use a combination of flexible OLED display technology and piezoelectric actuators that would, wait for it, actually alter the contour of your screen.
Aiguillon - Awesomenauts Wiki Background Legend tells the story of a giant cranky porcupine that wandered through space. Furious at the sun for burning his eyes, he charged and killed both the light and himself OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console by OUYA We just added game streaming through OnLive! Final Fantasy will be on OUYA...and we have an exclusive game! And VEVO has agreed to put their music videos on OUYA, XBMC adds a streaming media app, with TuneIn and iHeartRadio adding music! Are Keyboards on Laptops the Next Thing to Go? The one thing that differentiates a laptop from a tablet – a keyboard – could be on its way to the dustbin of history, contends long-time Mac columnist Andy Ihnatko. If you don’t believe him, witness Exhibit A in the war on a technology first perfected more than a hundred and thirty years ago: The haptic display. Apple patented their own version of a haptic display that shows – what else – a full-size keyboard. The general idea is that it should be possible to use tiny vibrating motors to fool fingers into thinking that they’re touching a physical keyboard. Working prototypes designed for mobile phones already exist, like Immersion’s TouchSense technology. A laptop with a fully virtual keyboard would resemble what’s known as a folio computer.
Indie Game: The Movie - The Final Push by BlinkWorks Indie Game: The Movie is a feature documentary about video games, their creators and the craft. The film follows the dramatic journeys of indie game developers as they create their games, and as they release those works, and themselves, to the world. Indie Game: The Movie is about making video games, but at its core, it’s about the creative process and exposing yourself through your work. The film tells the emotional story of a two-man team, Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes, as they craft and release their first major game for XBOX, "Super Meat Boy". It follows Phil Fish, the creator of the highly- anticipated game, "Fez", as he shows it for the first time in 4 years at the giant gaming expo, PAX EAST.
Touchscreens killed the keyboard Thanks to a handful of emerging technologies, virtual touchscreen keyboards are getting closer to the feel of real electromechanical keyboards. Enhancements such as tactile feedback and surfaces that change to mimic physical keys could eventually redefine the virtual keyboard experience for millions of users of devices ranging from smartphones to tablets and touchscreen PCs. Will these improvements be enough for the virtual keyboard to entirely displace the electromechanical keyboard? Maybe not for folks old enough to have used an IBM Selectric typewriter, whose keyboard served as the model for early computer keyboards, but improved virtual keyboards may be just fine with a new generation of users for whom big clunky keyboards are so yesterday. On smartphones, virtual keyboards have largely replaced the more expensive electromechanical keyboards, with a few notable exceptions such as BlackBerries and QWERTY texting phones. The real battleground may be over tablet computers.
Double Fine Adventure by Double Fine and 2 Player Productions The Kickstarter pledge period has ended, but the real fun is just beginning. Visit for the most current info about progress on Double Fine Adventure. And if you missed out on the Kickstarter, fear not. It's never too late for adventure! Just head over here to join the party: Haptic display/keyboard uses microfluidics to create buttons when needed June 08, 2012 // Nicolas Mokhoff A haptic user Interface with real physical buttons, guidelines, or shapes that rise out of the surface of any touchscreen and recede to become invisible is being demonstrated at this week’s SID event. Tactus Technology claims its Tactile Layer panel is the world's first deformable tactile surface that creates dynamic physical buttons that users can actually see and feel in advance of entering data into the device. Tactus uses innovative microfluidic technology to create physical buttons that rise from the touchscreen to give users the experience of operating a physical keyboard. When no longer needed, the buttons recede back into the touchscreen, leaving no trace of their presence.
RODA: A clumsy robot stumbles through Happical Zoo by Feric Feng Hello! My name is Feric and I'm a conceptual designer. Thanks for checking out my project! 16 Infographic Resumes, A Visual Trend (It’s actually up to 18 now.) A number of designers have attempted to design a visual, infographic resume, and while this is certainly not mainstream (yet), it is gaining some momentum. I wanted to highlight some of the great examples available on the web, but the line between an infographic resume and a designer resume is tough not to cross. I’ve tried to stay true to only infographic versions here, and didn’t include many good illustrated resumes that didn’t include any visualizations. Make Your Own Photoshop Brushes January 20th, 2007 Creating your own custom brush is really quite easy: Open an image, any image.Select all or part of the image.Go to Edit –> Define Brush Preset.Voila! New brush… You can use anything from scanned textures, photographs, or drawings to make new brushes. The real key to creating a brush is understanding how they work and finding the right settings.