Working all but alone from his hardware-strewn office, Jeff Han is about to change the face of computing. Not even the big boys are likely to catch him. READ»
On last night's Daily Show, John Oliver interviewed multi-touch screen guru Jeff Han, who we profiled in the Feb. 2007 Fast Company. Jeff was creating wall-sized touch screens years before Apple began churning out the iPhone.READ»
It looks like we won't have to wait until the year 2054 to experience real multi-touch computing, as the film Minority Report infers. Some of us may have already seen a demo video of Microsoft researcher Andrew D. Wilson diplaying ...READ»
Augmented reality on smartphones may well be a killer app, but MIT's Fluid Interfaces group is already moving beyond the confines of a GPS-capable cellphone to create a data-driven "Sixth Sense."
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Motion capture is a staple of movie-making. It's also extremely expensive. The required equipment can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. But a professor at MIT has invented an entirely new system, for just a fraction of ...READ»
The National Design Awards, adminstered by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, are the most prestigious in the U.S. The 2009 winners were just announced. Some of them you may have heard of, others you probably haven't ...READ»
I'm going to try to be equitable here, because no one needs to read another anti-Vista rant or Apple-is-God paean. Windows does some things very well; its Previous Versions feature in Vista, for example, has rescued a number of my ...READ»
