Body modders rejoice! Touch interfaces may soon be coming to your tattoo if Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft Research engineers advance their concept of Skinput. So far, the team has developed an external sensor that detects acoustic vibrations on the human body, and have paired this input with a projected user interface. This is an interesting field of conceptual R&D, as there could be more far reaching and tantalizing applications with convergent developments in bio-materials engineering and thin film displays.
Scaling Farmville to Big Brother
by Jason Patocka February 23, 2010
Jesse Schell recently gave a thought provoking presentation at the recent Design Innovate, Communicate, Entertain (DICE) 2010 summit regarding the future of game development. He starts off with a very pointed analysis of the current established game industry, who is currently quite slack jawed and awestruck with the arrival of Facebook as a viable game platform. Extra fun mind blowing statistic: *Farmville has more registered users than Twitter accounts*. He then picks up momentum by outlying his applied theory for gamevertising, describing trends toward a life where everything you do somehow grants you XP.