I recently came across an old Fortune magazine from 1998. Interesting reading–especially the ads. Behind the front page, Compaq had a full-page spread promoting a brand new laptop. Key selling points:
Intel Mobile Pentium II processor @ 266 MHz
Industry-leading AGP implementation with a dedicated 66 MHz graphics bus and 4 MB SGRAM video [...]
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In a comment on my last post, Mike pointed out another interesting approach to interface design, this time from a team at NYU. The description:
While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as [...]
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Remember the magic paint brush?
Here’s another novel system for interacting with your computer.
Lots of applications for gaming, though I’m not sure how it could be used in a mainstream professional setting…
(via Andreas)
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Hobbes’ Internet Timeline charts the development of the internet. There’s no question that the pace of change is fast. A few key developments:
1984: DNS introduced.
1989: more than 100,000 available hosts.
1992: more than 1,000,000 available hosts.
1994: Pizza Hut offers online pizza ordering.
Anyway, I like to visit the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to [...]
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Media convergence, though tricky to define precisely, is nonetheless an appealing idea. For what it’s worth, I think of media convergence in terms of both media and devices; in a “converged” world, one would be able to easily use a single device (say, a phone) to consume different types of media (say video and [...]
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