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Today Alcatel-Lucent and QNX announced the 4G connected car prototype in New York. As part of the NG Connect program (an ecosystem built around 4G connectivity) Atlantic Records was proud to create a version of our award winning Fanbase platform for the music fan on the road. The car contains 4 internet connected screens allowing for an in car music experience like never before.
Check out a (shaky) video of an early version of Fanbase running in the car.
NG Connect also launched a micro site with detailed information on the program and the prototype.
Arguably the biggest announcement from Adobe’s MAX conference last week was the (future) ability to create iPhone applications using Flash CS5. There were several sessions that materialized shortly after the announcement, but this session by Arno Gourdol was by far the most useful and practical. Check out the video below.
Some pretty amazing mobile interfaces from UI and graphics studio TAT (The Astonishing Tribe). They are a Swedish firm that already has work on 270 million devices. If you think the panacea for mobile design is located in Cupertino, these videos may make you think different.
TAT Augmented ID
Augmented ID is a TAT concept that visualizes the digital identities of people you meet in real life. With a mobile device and face recognition software from Polar Rose, Augmented ID enables you to discover selected information about people around you. All users control their own augmented appearance, by selecting the content and social network links they want show to others. Modifying your augmented ID is easier than fixing your hair in real life and, of course, TAT Cascades will make sure you look great!
JuggleUI
Multitasking can be a natural and useful part of the user experience. Juggle UI allows users to conveniently get an overview of all open apps. By using touch surfaces outside the screen, it is easy to switch between different applications and to transfer content between them. The user can access the open applications at any time by swiping a finger over the touch surface to the right. Content can be copied and stored on a clipboard and accessed at any time by swiping a finger over the touch surface to the left.
Nexus
A TAT Cascades powered demo with a range of new exciting features; portrait and landscape effects, widgets, touch unlock, dragndrop and LinkFlow. It is easy to differentiate still based on the same underlying application code – allowing for a lot more extensive customization within the same development time.
Glassy
This demo shows how you can have attractive UIs work, with excellent performance, on mid-range platforms. Giving you the ability to spice up your UIs on legacy platforms and a platform that from scratch has been designed and optimized to be CPU and RAM efficient. It pushes FPS performance without the need for hardware acceleration
TAT Foldout UI Demo
This 3D demo was developed by TAT for Mobile World Congress 2009 in cooperation with Texas Instruments. Foldout UI is a Cascades implementation on the Texas Instruments OMAP3430 platform, using Open GL|ES 2.0 and hardware acceleration. The demo shows a unique utilization of 3D in combination with touch input. It challenges traditional UI paradigms with its flip-through navigation and foldout design. Realistic materials, physics, shaders and other effects give a real-life experience to the GUI.
A pretty interesting marketing idea from musician Moldover, a San Francisco based artist who has made his CD case just as desirable as the music itself. Using knowledge of custom circuits, he made the case for his CD into a crude theremin. Check out the YouTube video below.
Today AgencyNet and Atlantic Records launched Fanbase Mobile, a version of Atlantic’s award winning Fanbase application for Flash Lite enabled handsets. As part of the launch Rob Thomas is showcasing the app during the Billboard Music Keynote at CTIA and he was interviewed about the app by CNBC.
“It is really about you and your favorite music, being able to have in the palm of your hand everything that has to do with the artists. Straight access to the music, to wallpaper, to lyrics to different videos. The content in real time can be updated as many times as you want.”
A funny post from Techcrunch today about two applications that prevent you from drunk dialing from the iPhone. Both apps block certain contacts for a set period of time, but one encourages drunk calling by randomly dialing people for you.
An interesting wrap up comparing 6 smart phone operating systems – symbian, windows mobile, iPhone, android, blackberry, palm webos. Nothing terribly surprising here, but a nice overview for people looking into potentional platforms for application development.
