To continue the thread I started in posts on 17 September and 20 September, here's another peek into the future of user interfaces.This is a short post but I guarantee you food for thought. I'm going to start trimming down my post size so I can increase the frequency, but I'll do my best to make sure they are still worth your while.
Take a look at this page from Tokyo designer Mac Funamizu's petinvention blog (opens in a new window or tab, depending on your browser settings). Scroll down and you'll see some examples of his Futuristic Glass concept applied to Internet search, and further down links to several other blog posts giving other example applications of the concept. Here's a picture I stole from his blog to lure you into taking a look:
This illustrates another facet of the revolution in HCI devices I discussed earlier: in addition to rendering far more realistic simulations, they are becoming a lot more varied in form and function. Prices of LCD screen components are becoming less expensive, as is touch-screen input overlay technology. The integration Mac describes is fanciful, but no more than five to seven years away from commercialization in all likelihood.
His glass looks like a portable windowpane, but glass is glass: this could as easily be a heads-up display on a vehicle windshield or a set of goggles worn by a surgeon to give a multidimensionally enhanced view of the patient under the scalpel.
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