Patently Apple has been scouring through Apple’s designs and has stumbled across a patent that claims to reveal the real future of Siri, and how it’s set to become a much cleverer, bigger part of your life. The scary bit? Apple wants to let Siri to buy things for you. Read more
Another week, another batch of fanciful designs and concepts. Industrial designers produce the kind of tech you can only dream of, largely because they don’t concern themselves with problems like current tech limitations and physics. …But that doesn’t mean we can’t look at the week’s top designs and hope for the best. Read more
Industrial designers and conceptual thinkers don’t often concern themsevles with the fiddly ins and outs of physics or real life technology. If left to their own devices, they’ll produce the kind of tech you can only dream of: beautiful, if completely unfeasible. But that doesn’t mean we can’t look at the best bits from the future tech concept drawing board and hope for the best. Join us, then, on a weekly look through this best in blue-sky thinking tech designs…
An interesting Apple patent filing submitted in October 2010 (before the original iPad was unveiled) but only just published, appears to show the future of multitouch and it’s a major leap from the simple pinch and spread motions we’re currently used to.
The detailed document describes physical actions that could have us flicking and pouring files between our iPads and iPhones. If Apple puts these future multitouch plans into place, it could mean the death of the aging desktop metaphor…
E-Ink Holdings, the brains behind the Amazon Kindle display tech, has revealed a new technique for creating updatable digital displays on cloth, essentially E-Ink cloth. It could point to a future filled with cool ultra-customisable t-shirts or more depressingly ad banners on every bosom in town. Get into the details after the jump…
Microsoft has put out a Future Vision video charting a smartphone powered trip to the supermarket not too far from now. Find out if it’s egalitarian or Orwellian after the jump!
