Storyboard for Open Innovation

Here is the storyboard for our inspirational movie, we are shooting it just now as I write this text. It goes a little something like this:



Harold wakes up and snoozes the alarm using a gesture above the phone.



He then continues to read some news in his bed.



He finds an article he likes and expands the screen to get a better reading experience and decides to share it to his friends.



Somewhere in the meantime Ana is brushing her teeth in front of her mirror. The mirror shows widgets and news.



She controls the UI on the mirror using gestures. She then finds Harolds shared article and decides to share it to her other friends as well.



At the same time Will is just arriving at work.



He sits down by his transparent screen and starts working when he sees the piece of news shared by Ana. He tells his co-worker to have a look at it. He can see it from his side of the transparent screen. Will does a quick mash-up of the news. He puts it on his phone.



He meets Harold on his lunch break, the guy who started the sharing link, and gives him the mash up while the phones are stitched together. And they lived happily ever after...

Keep posted because the video is coming soon.

Tobii Glasses - eyetracking

This seems like a neat technology.

Say that you want to create a music player for a car. Then you want to know if your design is safe for use while driving. One criteria for an unsafe design is:
"The driver needs to look away from the road for more than two seconds at a time."


The Tobii glasses should be able to provide you with that data in a jiffy.

Wireless in the World: Overlaying Urban Space with Wireless Technology

Wireless in the world 2 from timo on Vimeo.

From Timo Arnall, this is a visualization of the invisible.

It feels like science fiction. Partly because we don't have the kind of technology to overlay networks in the world with that kind of precision. Partly because it feels like we're invading someone's privacy. These things take some time to get used to. Just like public diaries (blogs) were kind of scary when they came.

And the winner is...

... screen technology! By the slimmest margin possible (almost)

It has been great to share ideas and thoughts and we hope you liked it too.

This experiment has now been running for two weeks and it's time for us to take all the input and start making an inspirational video. The forum part is now closed and we will work internally for a couple of weeks with some concept design and then start the final production of the movie.

If you want to see just what happened during the two weeks of open innovation you can still take a look at the forum parts for our three topics. We also wish to publish a lessons learned from our little experiment so if you want to do it yourself you can get our DOs and DON'Ts.

Open Innovation Day #8

THE FUTURE OF DRIVING
Benjamin from flinc showed us his demo of the hitchhiking service, nice!

THE FUTURE OF COMMUNICATION
This sketch was made to visualize what Ash was talking about getting rid of the laptop:


THE FUTURE OF SCREENS
Antoine RJ Wright shared yet another idea with us, we like creative and productive people, this one being about using the camera as a sensor to capture gestures.

Open Innovation Day #7

It's now the final countdown. Just a couple of days remaining of exchanging ideas at our open innovation website.

FUTURE OF DRIVING
Handful shared some ideas and gave us a link to his blog where he had sketches of his one on scenarios much like ours. Really nice to see!

THE FUTURE OF COMMUNICATION
Maybe not in the right section, (but who cares, we are not running Wikipedia here) Ash posted his idea about mirrors so the sketch macine a.k.a Per made this one:


THE FUTURE OF SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
I expressed that i liked transparent screens and Per wasn't late to reply with a sketch:

Open Innovation Day #6

FUTURE OF DRIVING
A good discussion spurred from the hitchiking idea - especially that this application could be used within a network: friends of friends on Facebook or within a company - to increase trust.

It almost feels like the two categories FUTURE OF COMMUNICATION and
SCREEN TECHNOLOGY are more and more merging into one. We're keeping them separated on the page, but probably the end result will be an amalgamation if it will be any of these two that wins.

Ash brought up a lot of good points on that smartphones are complete computers if only the peripherals worked, and also that we are surrounded by things that should be screens - one of the things Ash wanted was a mirror that showed weather info etc, and I am happy to see that other geeks are already working on it:



A lot of good discussions on making screens "smarter" and more aware of who's watching created the following picture:


And Antoine's wish on making it easier to share content between screens created this: