Intelligent Interactive Shop Window

A few months ago, a friend of mine gave a presentation about the music industry and showed us an interactive wall where you can play music on. On the wall there was a piano, a trumpet and some drums, but in fact you can play almost every instrument you want. If you push the wall you “play” the instrument and if you want you can even form a band with your friends, it would look and sound (even as awful) like this:




I thought it was cool (if you are drunk or a 2-year old), but if playing music was its only function, why should anyone wants to have such a bright, colorful, and maybe a bit ugly wall in their house or office? Well , last week I found that a interactive wall has more functions than only playing music. I joined a guest-lecture of a employee of Philips who also showed us a interactive wall, but this time it had a lot of other functions than playing music.



The functions of this interactive wall has nothing to do with recreation but mainly with marketing, Philips calls it the Intelligent Shop Window. When you stand in front a display window of a clothing shop, a camera recognizes your eyes and displays at the window what you are looking at and displays the article you are looking at. Furthermore, you can “look” into the shop through a on the window displayed catalogue, it shows you sizes and prizes of the clothes. You can flip through the pages like you are shopping or like you are flipping pages in a paper catalogue. Next day you can go back to the shop and buy the things you saw last night displayed at the display window.

Doodle Jump

Finally, here it is: my new blog. When I was searching for information about Interactive Walls, the topic I wanted to write about originally, I visited the website www.huffingtonpost.com. The website calls itself “The online newspaper: news blogs video community”. Once a week I take a look around to read about new devices like the first screenshots of the iPhone 4G, the risks of watching 3D TV, and read blogs about social media and technical devices. It’s a really cool site for people who are interested in taking a glimp of the future! But while I was searching for interactive walls I read another article about Doodle Jump, the most popular paid app ever (Apple Store).





I was shocked! How is it possible that a hand-drawn game, literally, is the most popular paid app ever for the iPhone and iPad (according to one of its creators Igor Pusenjak)? The previous top paid app was Bejeweled, the game in which you have to shift jewels to get them in a row of the same color.

Doodle Jump has been downloaded 4 million times in April, with a price of 0.99dollar per download. Igor and his brother Marko, who has also built the game, have taken in 2.7 million dollar from Doodle Jump alone. The secret of the game, I think, is the simple design, it’s quick-to-play, and it is fun to take your four-legged bugger to bounce from level to level. The only thing you have to do is to tilt your phone from left to right. So what are you waiting for, go to the Apple Store and download your own Doodle Jump!

Now VS Later

After three weeks of exam-stress, designing and testing prototypes, writing papers, and a good party of SB last night (thanks for that by the way !), I am now going to write my new blog. I am NOW going to write my new blog. NOW! NNNOOWW! Haahaa, just kidding. NO, I’m not gonna write my next blog today, see you next time.

New Lay - Out

Well, finally I did it! I've changed the lay-out of my Blog. First it was greyisch (as you can see at the picture), beacause I don't like bright colors, so chosing a color wasn't easy for me ;) But as you can see, I've added a bit of green and changed some other small things too.

Let me know what you think about my new lay-out!