This week’s post for the Ideas of the week featuring ideas that might change our world.
1. Chevrolet Speedometer Design – a design evolution over the last hundred years
Design+Usability+Experience
Speedometers are those kind of items you look at thousands of times during your life, without ever really noticing. You notice the speed, not the meter. And if you do notice the meter chances are you don’t realize someone actually designed it. The company probably even did some research beforehand. Research regarding the readability of typefaces, the right size of the numbers and the space between them. More
2. After Trying To “Kill Math,” An Ex-Apple Designer Aims To Kill Reading
Design+HCI
Bret Victor thinks that text itself should be as interactive as graphics or apps. And he’s built an open-source Javascript library to help the idea catch on. More
3. Condition ONE iPad App Makes War Reporting Visceral, Terrifying
Augmented Reality+App+News+War
The main feature of Condition ONE is its augmented-reality-esque interaction design. Instead of watching documentaries in a tiny, static video window, Condition ONE plays back full-screen video that you can literally pan and tilt around in by moving the iPad around in physical space. More
4. Mercedes: Blur
Marketing+Idea
A brilliant marketing strategy used by Mercedes to launch its new Mercedes-Benz 2012 C-Class Coupe. More
5. Computerised contact lens will keep you up to date with news and texts
Augmented Reality+Tech Innovation
Until now, the concept of info-vision had belonged to the realms of science fiction. However, scientists have developed a prototype lens that could one day provide all kinds of hands-free information. More
6. Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
Art+Technology+Humor
TED Talks Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations — a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room only to make you invisible on screen. More
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Meanwhile the idea of the week at our Garage Sale
WhizPhone
A product that helps you manage all your incoming calls – receive, reject or send calls to voicemail – depending on the time of the day or the person calling you. More
This week’s post compiled by Nitish Sharma