Mozilla Seabird
Mozilla Labs Concept Series presents the Seabird concept phone:
I find the process much more interesting than the phone though.
The Future of the Book.
The Future of the Book, as imagined by IDEO, looks very shiny but doesn’t seem very practical:
The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.
The Nelson concept tries to help people properly assess a text by providing context and multiple perspectives. However, this doesn’t really solve the challenges of trust and authority in a world of cheap content distribution and evaporating barriers to entry. Just because the reader is provided with commentary, contrary opinions or statistical data doesn’t mean that he’ll have the time or want to critically assess the accuracy and correctness of a given text.
The Coupland concept seems completely pointless to me. There are some decent, if stale ideas in there, but the inscrutable decision to awkwardly tack this onto the social environment of the workspace ruins the whole concept.
The Alice concept, however, i rather like, even if it’s more akin to a videogame or interactive fiction than an actual book. (via)
Future of Screen Technology
The Future of Screen Technology, as envisioned by Swedish design company TAT:
Augmented City 3D
Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.
Previously: Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop
