verisimilitudes

Owing to a particularly busy Friday night, the ensuing weekend-long hangover and a heavy truckload of work to do, I neglected my regular noting of random crap shiny things that caught my eye this past week…

• Some futuristic User Interface Concepts [Smashing Magazine] including this display which reminds me in a way of some work by an undergrad colleague of mine at Philips Research Labs. David’s brief was to explore the concept of a multi-touch gestural display device. He investigated Fingerworks and how we might put their tech behind a screen for a portable device. This was in 2004, remind you of something that came out in 2007? Yep, Apple bought them out not long afterwards. I miss being in R&D…
• A subtle clock that tells you the time.
• The perils of being a music nerd.

Back to some work…