Prototype

The Internet Explorer and Microsoft Open Technologies Inc. teams released a prototype implementation of the W3C  DeviceOrientation Event Specification draft  on HTML5Labs.com. This specification defines new DOM events that provide information about the physical orientation and motion of a…

No matter if you're a developer or an architect, innovation is much more than just writing code for new features. How do you come up with innovative ideas that make your application more competitive and make you stand out as a recognized thought leader? Innovation works best when architects and…

Want to see the tablet PC of the future? I just came across a video where Microsoft’s Jonathan Cluts demonstrates a prototype of new tablet PC technology, designed with the needs of today’s college students in mind. In the video, Cluts, the Director of Strategic Prototyping, is demonstrating how a…

Only at a company this large can you stumble upon extremely cool stuff that would’ve remained entirely off your radar. The Center for Information Work (MSCIW) appears to be a swanky work area concept that includes workspace, hardware, and software concepts for the future of electronic productivity.…

Simon Guest walks through the features and expected workflow of SketchFlow, a prototyping tool for WPF or Silverlight applications originally shown at MIX09.

Netbooks may be all the rage right now, but there’s nothing that makes us drool quite like a new gaming laptop. Although HP is making its official debut at CES, we recently got a sneak peek at their new Voodoo Firefly prototype laptop. One of the laptop’s unique features is a 4.3” secondary screen…

This demo explores how to add pointing input capabilities to very small screen devices. On first sight, touch-screens seem to allow for particular compactness, because they integrate input and screen into the same physical space. The opposite is true, however, because the users fingers occlude…