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thisistheverge: Rethinking the iPhone’s App Switcher Some interesting ideas from Verge Forums user brentcas. I’m a little crazy about user interface design. And while I am no professional, new ideas for how software could or should work can keep me up late into the night, sketching in my Moleskine. About a week ago a really simple idea hit me as I was falling asleep: the App Switcher in iOS should be taller. And why not? When you double click the home button and the screen rises, the status bar also vanishes, and you only have visible access to four apps. If you want to change the volume, you have to swipe over twice. Meanwhile, the raised app is taking up a lot of real estate.

thisistheverge:

Rethinking the iPhone’s App Switcher

Some interesting ideas from Verge Forums user brentcas.

I’m a little crazy about user interface design. And while I am no professional, new ideas for how software could or should work can keep me up late into the night, sketching in my Moleskine. About a week ago a really simple idea hit me as I was falling asleep: the App Switcher in iOS should be taller.

And why not? When you double click the home button and the screen rises, the status bar also vanishes, and you only have visible access to four apps. If you want to change the volume, you have to swipe over twice. Meanwhile, the raised app is taking up a lot of real estate.
Reblogged from The Verge

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futuristgerd: (via Mobile Now Accounts for 10% of all Internet Usage Worldwide)   my prediction: 50% by 2020

futuristgerd:

(via Mobile Now Accounts for 10% of all Internet Usage Worldwide)   my prediction: 50% by 2020

Reblogged from The best findings: Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard

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futuristgerd: (via MediaFuturist: Mobile Internet already dominates in India)

futuristgerd:

(via MediaFuturist: Mobile Internet already dominates in India)

Reblogged from The best findings: Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard

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thedailyfeed: Apple TV is finally on its way — with video chat and voice recognition! The new product will be called the iTV and will feature a sleek aluminum shell similar to that of many current Apple laptops and products, and will have a similar high-definition display, [Apple contractor Foxconn CEO Terry] Gou said.It will also have FaceTime video chat and be able to accept instructions using Apple’s Siri voice recognition program, according to Gou. SMARTV!!!

thedailyfeed:

Apple TV is finally on its way — with video chat and voice recognition!

The new product will be called the iTV and will feature a sleek aluminum shell similar to that of many current Apple laptops and products, and will have a similar high-definition display, [Apple contractor Foxconn CEO Terry] Gou said.

It will also have FaceTime video chat and be able to accept instructions using Apple’s Siri voice recognition program, according to Gou.

SMARTV!!!

Reblogged from The Daily

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smarterplanet: Railroad Sensors Predict Derailments Wirelessly « Wireless Sensor Networks Blog Union Pacific, the nation’s largest railroad company, says a new software program deployed throughout its network can now predict certain kinds of derailments days or weeks before they are likely to occur, improving safety and potentially avoiding millions of dollars in damages. The company moves some 900 trains per day, including 175 per day in its central north-south corridor. Union Pacific first started using acoustic sensors 10 years ago to transmit noises from vibrations of ball bearings in train wheels back to a control center that can communicate directly with engineers on board the trains. This allows the company to get trains off the track at the earliest convenient opportunity (for example after a load is delivered and the car returns to a terminal), but before a faulty bearing causes a derailment. More recently, the company started using visual sensors that can detect when wheels begin to flatten–another factor that can cause an problem on the rails.

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Railroad Sensors Predict Derailments Wirelessly « Wireless Sensor Networks Blog

Union Pacific, the nation’s largest railroad company, says a new software program deployed throughout its network can now predict certain kinds of derailments days or weeks before they are likely to occur, improving safety and potentially avoiding millions of dollars in damages. The company moves some 900 trains per day, including 175 per day in its central north-south corridor.

Union Pacific first started using acoustic sensors 10 years ago to transmit noises from vibrations of ball bearings in train wheels back to a control center that can communicate directly with engineers on board the trains. This allows the company to get trains off the track at the earliest convenient opportunity (for example after a load is delivered and the car returns to a terminal), but before a faulty bearing causes a derailment. More recently, the company started using visual sensors that can detect when wheels begin to flatten–another factor that can cause an problem on the rails.

Reblogged from A Smarter Planet
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