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It looks like the tablet is here now, and the people we have to thank are the talented UX, UI designers who are inventing great new ways to interact with the devices. Here's a collection of concept videos from a few different companies.
Square is a new company founded by Jack Dorsey. Their product is a small card reader that mounts onto your iPhones headphone jack and together with the accompanying app it let's you charge credit cards with your mobile handset.
Along with services like Zopa, Obopay, M-Pesa and Mint Square is a nice addition to the type of services we need to kick some new life into the stuffy world of banking.
They've done a nice video to show off the product, please take a look.
Siri is what its founders call a "do engine" as opposed to a search engine. It's a very nifty phone app that lets you speak commands like "get me a table for 2 at a french restaurant that serves scollops tomorrow at eight." and Siri will do just that in a matter of seconds.
Skip till 22.40 for a demo.
This is a great way of using exiting APIs out in the wild and mash them up to do something truly usable for its users.
I'm usually quite a sceptic when it comes to these things, but this actually doesn't look too bad.
Get 3D data into maps by crowd sourcing:
There's some seriously cool technology in Project Natal but I can't help feeling totally creeped out by the boy in Lionhead.
Some really interesting facts in this video by XPLANE and The Economist
This has been a great week! Not only was monday a bank holiday, but we managed to win 3 awards aswell! Balloonacy got the Telecommunications awards (it sounds so 90s) and we also won a Art Directors Club's Golden Cube!
Lonely Planet which is another Poke project, also got a webby in the travel category.
I'm a happy bee.