Posts Tagged ‘User Experience’
A Car that Puts the Blind in the Driver's Seat
The thought of having blind drivers on the road seems like a disaster waiting to happen, but the Blind Driver Challenge team at Virginia Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory aims to safely put the blind in control of steering wheels. The team's retrofitted buggy, which has been tested by blind volunteers on a closed course at Virginia Tech, uses a voice command interface, laser range finders, and other sensory technology to guide drivers in the...
A Tour of America's First Zero-Impact, Supergreen "Living Building"
The Omega Center for Sustainable Living is designed to make a LEED Gold structure look like a Superfund site. The $3.2 million Rhinebeck, New York, structure, which opens in July, will be the nation's first certified "living building," having no negative environmental effects. The centerpiece of the project -- designed by Kansas City, Missouri-based BNIM and John Todd Ecological Design of Woods Hole, Massachusetts -- is a revolutionary system that will clean...
FastPencil: Speedy Self-Publishing for Authors
Name: FastPencil
Quick Pitch: FastPencil makes the book-writing process painless – from concept to printed book or e-book.
Genius Idea: On top of writing and editing stories for Mashable, I’m also an author – specifically, I finished my first novel, a 130,000 word sci-fi novel, several months ago and am in editing. But I’ve quickly learned that writing is often not the tough part of getting a book...
A Sink That Doubles as a Dishwasher
German designers Wach just unveiled a product concept that any small-apartment denizen will love: A sink that doubles as a dish washer. The piece is part of a show of work by young German designers, called DMY Berlin. The so-called Colo system is exceedingly simple: After a meal, you load a tray with dirty dishes, then you plop that down into the sink. Above the sink there's a hood which can then be...Award Winning Web Designer provides Web Design for the Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Incline Village & Reno Area
Facebook Inches Towards Real-Time
We apparently can’t get our social information fast enough. In fact, it almost seems like a race for who can get information out the fastest. Twitter updates are lightning fast, even occasionally breaking the news before the major outlets, and FriendFeed’s interface now updates in real-time. And today, Facebook has jumped back into the real-time race by implementing live updates within the Facebook home page.
As you might recall,...
Trent Reznor From Nine Inch Nails Weighs In On Smartphone OS's
Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails fame, just got his band's app rejected from the iPhone App Store. Surprising? Not so much because if you've been following iPhone app news over at our sister-site The iPhone Blog you would know that Apple has a completely inane app approval process that sometimes reject applications that are perfectly worthy and approve applications that are inane themselves.
