Posted by Tattletech on Jul 30, 2010 in
New things,
Technology,
Vision,
natural interface
Have been thinking a lot about natural interfaces lately. Don’t ask… but decided to ask the experts at Primesense what they thought… since that is what they do. The question we asked was this:
How are natural interaction revolutionizing Consumer Electronics and how is technology now adapting to the user, its master?
You know what? They gave us a good answer and now we feel better. Happy to see it applied to more than just gaming, they always get the good stuff. – JLH
- Today people are faced with a greater number of devices to connect to networks, a large number of which are mobile personal devices. The challenge for designers and developers is how to create user interfaces that are able to adapt to the interaction resources of the device while making it simple and intuitive for the user. Users want to be able to pick up their device and use it without a tutorial. Natural Interaction is allowing consumer electronic devices – TV, gaming, cars, GPS, mobile –to adapt to the user instead of making the user adapt to the device.
- Natural interfaces will create a bridge between machines and humans to allow users to interact with technology in a natural and humanistic way. Advances in portability and instant availability have taken the mobile phone to the next level, but interaction on the mobile device has not had a chance to evolve as quickly as the applications that users want. PrimeSense sees for the future the entire ecosystem of devices, including mobile, co-existing with humans in a way that makes life easier by bringing together all the elements of the human sensory experience – voice, sight, touch, biometrics, movements and gestures.
Tags: 3D, Consumer electronics, PrimeSense, Technology, User interface
Posted by Tattletech on Mar 31, 2009 in
3GSM,
Cool stuff,
Mobile World Congress,
Technology
- Option
We briefly mentioned Option right after MWC in Barcelona. So we finally got a chance to invite Option’s Jan Poté to our Hot Seat:
Tattletech: Option must be around for a while (either that, or you had to pay a substantial sum to own the www.option.com domain) Can you tell us a little bit about how the company started?
The company was started in 1986, and has indeed owned that URL since the ‘90s. The vision was to make products enabling “anytime, anywhere easy access to information”. Today, that vision is still the basic philosophy by which we design and develop products.
We started with designing full-size and half-size PC modem cards for laptops (Toshiba, IBM etc.) – still with a fixed line. Later on we developed the first completely wireless (cellular) PCMCIA data card. It is with that data card – together with a massive marketing campaign from Vodafone in Europe – that we ‘created’ the market for data cards.
In total we have come up with about 22 world firsts in cellular data (the first 3G data card, the first data card combining cellular with wifi, the smallest wireless module on the planet for Intel platforms, etc.). Now we have about 110 customers, including Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange, AT&T, and Telefonica.
TT: You recently launched Ucan – a virtual ‘PC on a stick’ – How does Ucan make our lives easier? At least our digital lives?
It makes our lives easier because you can take with you (in your pocket) all your applications, all your data, all your favorite websites and much more in a device that also lets you connect to the internet via 3G and 3G+ (HSPA). With this ‘PC on a stick’ you don’t need to worry anymore about whether or not you have your PC with you (netbook, notebook, or big laptop) – you just plug it into any USB port of any computer and it automatically creates your own personal digital environment.
TT:How do you ensure user privacy? What happens if I use Ucan on a public computer, open documents etc? Can anyone logging in after me see my stuff?
Not at all… and that is another beauty of this product. When you stop working and take the USB device out of the computer, it leaves no trace at all on the host machine. It is as you where never there, never used it. Yet, everything you changed or added is saved on your USB device.
TT: How is your product different from others already available on the market?
There is no other product on the market that does exactly what uCAN does. You have the simple 3G USB devices (which enable you to connect to the Internet) and you have USB devices with applications on them, offering no Internet connectivity. The latter type of device is similar to uCAN, but works by automatically installing all its software on the host device – it will even require you to have the necessary access and permissions for the host PC.
TT: So, do you really see a future where business people walk around NOT carrying a laptop?
We do see a future where some business people and consumers will walk around with all of their digital information without a laptop. Having said this, it is also true that it is a matter of ‘customer convenience,’ meaning that not all business users or consumers will prefer to walk around like this. However, as with all advancements in technology, there’s no telling how quickly something like this could become the norm. Would we ever have thought that some of us would go running around with 10,000 songs around their neck? Yet, it happened. Additionally, the type of software/applications that can be installed on the USB device can vary widely according to the needs of the customer (e.g. a USB device for the banking industry would have different software than a USB device targeted at the ‘gaming community’). So yes, we see a very bright future for this type of product – we call it ‘Internet in your pocket.’
-SM
Tags: MWC, Tattletech Hot Seat, Technology
