The Idea Guy Blogeth... » android http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog An Idealabs Interactive weblog Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:46:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Android in spaaaace! http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/post/android-in-spaaaace/ http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/post/android-in-spaaaace/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:09:23 +0000 Idea Guy http://www.idealabsinteractive.com/blog/?p=543 So, it’s been a while since a boy and his father sent and iPhone into space (more on that here). And since then Google’s been performing some experiments of their own!

Here are the videos…

The tests

The actual launch process

Space…

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Holographic 3D interfaces!

Minority Report, anyone?

The Motorola XOOM tablet, running Google Android Honeycomb

The official preview video for Google Android Honeycomb

Robo Teddy Bear

Isn’t he the cutest? :P

Eye control

Playing games with 3 humongous pads stuck to your face? Really?

Sleep monitoring head-band

Next time you doze off at work, the boss will know what you’ve been dreaming about! :P

Sony’s head-mounted 3D display

Head-mounted displays have been around since the 80′s, and they’ve never really picked up. Get. The. Hint.

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Here are some advertisements for you to enjoy…

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Maybe…

Should we?

The Mozilla Foundation’s got itself into a tizzy over whether or not to develop Firefox for Android.

While they’re debating, here’s a look at Fennec – coming someday to a smartphone near you:

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SPRXmobile, a Dutch company, has created Layar, an Android-based browser that uses the phone’s compass and GPS coordinates to figure out where you are and what the phone camera is looking at.

A layer of information is drawn on top of the display, continually updating as you look at different things!

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Here’s a video of the desktop:

Here’s a more exploratory video of the UI:

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