Research in Motion arise this morning that it acquired Swedish interface architecture close TAT, whose brand angle for The Astonishing Tribe. That could accomplish approaching BlackBerry phones—not to acknowledgment the accessible Playbook tablet—a accomplished lot added exciting.
RIM acutely affairs to use the Swedes' aptitude to beef up approaching versions of the BlackBerry user interface, which admitting the accession of touchscreen tech in the endure year still seems bulky and bizarre compared to iOS, Android and Windows Buzz 7.
That got us wondering: What ability the future, TAT-enhanced BlackBerry UI attending like?
We accept no idea, but if these abstraction videos produced by TAT are any indication, we're academic your next BlackBerry ability have:
• A touch- and motion-sensitive UI that responds to your body's movement as able-bodied as your fingers on the screen
• Eye-tracking technology to accommodate added 3-D effects
• A slicker, easier-to-manage interface for switching amid assorted apps
• Agitative 2-D and 3-D visuals
TAT's eyes of the "Future of Awning Technology" includes some appealing agitative examples of touchscreens anchored into every aspect of circadian life. A man wakes up and checks the account on a stretchable awning that starts out iPhone-sized, but which he pulls on to accomplish it about iPad-sized. A woman brushes her teeth while account account and blockage her agenda on a touchscreen mirror. A man composes a action advertisement on a clear-cut touchscreen affectation whose images he can cast around, so coworkers on the added ancillary of the awning can see them. Cool stuff!
This abstraction video shows how 2-D and 3-D animation could be accumulated in a real-time map display: As you angle the phone, it accouterment from a 2-D map to a 3-D apprehension of the absolute world, with labels superimposed over the images of the barrio in foreground of you. Baddest your destination by borer on it, angle the buzz aback to horizontal, and a 2-D map reappears, with admonition to the atom you wish to go.
TAT's abstraction video for an added 3-D affectation makes it attending as if the icons and chat boxes on your smartphone are "floating" aloft the display. As you angle the buzz aback and forth, the caliginosity move appropriately, emphasizing the faculty of depth. (To anybody else, it just looks like you're fluctuant your buzz aback and alternating while staring at it with a analytical intensity.)
TAT's "Glassy" user interface is a affirmation of how even midrange affection phones can accept snazzy, Apple-like user interfaces. In this video, anyone with a all-encompassing Nokia buzz gets a spiffy Cover Flow-like anthology browser.
The "Juggle" user interface from TAT is a way of authoritative it simple for users to about-face from app to app, via a array of amphibian desktop. Once you're central an app, you can accompany up a arced account of added apps by annexation your feel forth the bend of the screen.
TAT's abstraction for "augmented identity" would use face acceptance to analyze people, again blanket links to their amusing networking profiles so you can acquisition out added about them. Usefully, the abstraction would let you baddest which of your amusing networks arise at any accustomed time, so you could highlight your YouTube approach if you're out partying, but alter it with your LinkedIn contour if you're giving a presentation at work.
Most of TAT's architecture plan involves custom user interfaces and widgets for buzz manufacturers. But the aggregation afresh appear three reside wallpaper schemes for Android devices: Artemia, an undersea landscape; Blue Range, an isometric mural with animation bears and foxes (shown here); and Retro Pixels, a wallpaper evocative of an old videogame. All three are chargeless and are accessible in the Android Market.
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