Organic UI’s

Researchers at the Human Media Lab­o­ra­tory, Queen’s Uni­ver­sity in Canada are devel­op­ing pro­to­types of new “non-planar” devices, which are vir­tu­ally com­put­ers that have a flex­i­ble shape. Com­put­ers are nifty, but often too bulky to be car­ried around. Even a laptop is too big to put in your pocket, but imag­ine if your com­puter looked and worked like a mag­a­zine or a piece of paper to be tucked away into your pock­ets. Not only will they take on flex­i­ble forms we’ve never imag­ined like pop cans with browsers dis­play­ing RSS feeds and movie trail­ers com­put­ers of the future will respond to our direct touch and even change their own shape to better accom­mo­date data.
The con­cept behind these next-​generation com­put­ers is “organic user interface”. Every­day com­put­ers live in only two dimen­sions and as a result, have become narrow-​minded. You are essen­tially look­ing at a tiny tunnel into a flat, on-​line world, and that causes people to think in a two-​dimensional way. ”Flatland” inter­faces are incred­i­bly lim­ited com­pared to nat­ural 3D ones”. This is in my opin­ion a rev­o­lu­tion in human-​computer inter­ac­tion. So Apple if you’re read­ing this…