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CES is only two weeks away….

…. it seems hard to believe at the moment, as we prepare for a brief chance to enjoy taking consuming our products at Christmas, but in two weeks we’ll be setting up the stand for another exciting Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  As Rachel mentioned, we’ll be showing two of the innovative consumer products [...]

What do you get for your extra dimension?

You might have heard that TVs are getting an extra dimension.  My PS3 is already 3D ready, so apart from watching things not quite hit you in the face, what use is it? So far I’ve been somewhat under-whelmed by 3D – the annoyance of wearing those glasses has outweighed the occasional feeling of actually [...]

A different way to squeeze

Suma introduced our vision for a new squeezable interface controller. The fully functional demo we took to CES in January for the  launch was a big hit and got some excellent press, making the show’s top 10 in SolidSmack. However we’ve been even busier since then and we’ve extended our thinking to how we can [...]

We’re not alone in the soft new world of Squeezable User Interfaces

In a recent blog I discussed some of the current trends that we can see/will see in the world of user interfaces. In this blog I will look at a few more that fall under the “squeezable” variety. Our own take on this, the Suma platform, is an analogue hand-held device that senses the level [...]

Hong Kong Electronics Fair Day 2

So, I have to retract some of yesterday’s post, as today I did see one vendor of 3D TVs (the lenticular screen type, which I find very difficult to ‘lock-on’ to), and I also found someone still offering CRT TVs. Wow, who would still want one of those things? Actually – apart from the Home [...]

Next generation user interfaces

Having developed Suma, our own squeezable analogue user interface, I’ve looked into developments in human computer interaction. There is a such huge amount of activity in this area that I have tried to categorize the different types of user interface. Here is the top ten categories, in no particular order, starting with the most obvious. 1 – Gesture [...]