Human-Centered Design
Design of the Future
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Conferences & Events
ROI: The Innovation Equation
On December 7-8 at the Museum of the City of New York, IDSA, Symbol Technologies and BusinessWeek will demonstrate the impact of innovation meeting investment. Hear from powerful industry speakers such as Jim Wicks, IDSA, Motorola’s vice president and director of consumer experience and design, who will share his insights about Motorola incorporating industrial design into its corporate infrastructure. (more…)
Food
MacDonalds Introduces QR Codes on its Sandwiches in Japan
MacDonalds is taking advantage of the ubiquity of cell phones in Japan to introduce QR codes on its sandwich wrappers. The codes, commonly used to code business cards for scanning by cell phones, will contain nutritional information for each of 19 sandwiches. They’ve also created cell phone friendly URLs for those with out cameras in their phones. (more…)
Design
Philips Research: Technology: Digital Society: Entertaible
Entertaible concept: combination of electronic gaming and traditional board games. The Entertaible concept is a tabletop gaming platform that marries traditional multi-player board and computer games in a uniquely simple and intuitive way. Entertaible comprises a 32-inch horizontal LCD, sophisticated touch screen-based multi-object position detection, and all supporting control electronics. (more…)
Acessibility
Paralyzed Man Sends E-mail by Thought
A pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, and is the most sophisticated such implant Read more…