Revolutionary User Interfaces

The human computer interface helps to define computing at any one time. As computers have become more mainstream the interfaces have become more intimate. This is the journey of computer technology and how it has come to touch all of our lives.

Now this is really cool; an interactive timeline that describes the milestones in human computer interaction over the years.

Check it out here - http://timeline.verite.co/examples/user-interface/

Google's Project Glass

We believe technology should work for you — to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don't.

A team within our Google[x] group started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment.

Follow along with us at http://g.co/projectglass as we share some of our ideas and stories. We'd love to hear yours, too. What would you like to see from Project Glass?

The prototype version Google has been demonstrating looks like a very polished and well-designed pair of wrap-around glasses with a clear display that sits above the eye. The glasses can stream information to the lenses and allow the wearer to send and receive messages through voice commands. There is also a built-in camera to record video and take pictures.



Love this fan-made video which shows what it could be like playing Battlefield.

Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet & PC

Sci-fi author and futurist Arthur C. Clarke predicted in this 1974 TV interview that in 2001, regular people would have personal computers that communicate and retrieve information using a system that sounds rather like the Internet.

Wind map

An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future.

This map shows you the wind flowing over the US in real time.

Check it out here http://hint.fm/wind/

How to Avoid Idea Plateaus

Do you come up with an idea, spend an evening / a week / a month working on it and then let it stop, something else get in the way of finishing that idea? Human nature is to allow the brain to reward ourselves for the creation of an idea only to not follow it through because it is easier to simply come up with a new idea.

"The project plateau is littered with the carcases of dead ideas that have never happened. What do we do? We just generate a new idea. We do it again and again and again. What we continue to do is we escape this project plateau with a new idea, and instantaneously we return to this high of excitement, this willingness to execute. And this is why there are more half-written novels in the world than there are novels.” ~ Scott Belsky



Check out Scott's book, Making Ideas Happen, it draws on years of research and interviews and is an excellent guide to improving your productivity.

Perpetual Ocean

Using a computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II (ECCO2), the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio visualizes surface currents around the world.

Read more here.

What is the internet anyway?