Forethink Design

Karmen is king of nerds. Pentagon sponsored his project to make innovative prosthetic arm for people who lost a arm or arms. Please play the video from link. It is really beautiful machine. It just looks like a Jedi arm for Luke Skywalker who lost his arm from battle with Vader. Karmen shows us how team work of ingenuity can improve human life. It reminds me that improving life should be top priority for design. Link: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/video?id=221 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen http://www.dekaresearch.com/

Wheel chair was too big for trunk. But this car 'Sephia' from KIA (Hyundai motors) is not that small car. Wheelbase of this model is around 2500mm. Do we need to make more folding & compact wheel chair? or to let car designers think about wheel chair size rather than size of Golf bag or Ski? Apparently, the driver of car and the driver of wheel chair had a hard time with it.

Is it time for touch interface? I would say yes for my job security. I think I can make a carreer plan based on touch interface for another 5 years at least. Look at this. It is studio of CNN situation room for 2008 US presidential election. Yesterday was Super Tuesday. Every new visualization technique have been introduced at election time. This time CNN show off big size touch panel. It is not that big. All corners are touchable and display amazing quality of photo, map and graphs. It seems familiar. Probably one from Jeff Han's multi touch technology. Yes, it is big iPhone. CNN's election board is fantastic. You can manipulate all complex election information with just some touches. Camera man just need to zoom in/out while two guys are talking about it and simulate it on screen. Graph can be simulated by scenario and you can understand why and how a region is bonded with election information. I believe all school and conference room of companies need that soon. Reference ht