Find: Newfound Use for the iPhone: Sleep Aid

How bout one for babies? That monitors too? Ben. 

Find: leatherbound compares ebook prices -- how to search shelves?

We need an app to locate purchased books on amz Goog b&n borders iTunes. Ben. 

Find: Google's Matias Duarte talks Honeycomb, tablets, and the future of Android

Video interview of the lead designer of Google's Android, who arrived shortly after HP bought Palm. Ben.

Find: Via Sagar: Android #1 smart phone platform

Nokia has a new CEO who will announce a new strategy on February 11. Ben.

Find: Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK preview goes live


Find: Android 3.0 Honeycomb preview emulator hands-on

Another honeycomb (android 30) preview. 

Find: Sony reveals PlayStation Suite framework, store for Android gaming


Find: Sony's next PSP, codenamed NGP


Finds: Sony's next-gen PSP (NGP) has a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, quad-core GPU as well

Wow. Four core gpu and CPU. Front and back touch screen. Never heard of imagination tech before; it's a uk mobile chip design house. Ben. 

Find: Splice iPhone video editor does iMovie tricks for free

Cheap vid editor for iOS. Ben

Find: Stanford demos social NFC apps on the Nexus S


Find: Xbox veteran Ed Fries joins Razer

Razer makes the switchblade, which has a keyboard with LEDs behind each key. So it can change for each game.

Find: IDC: ZTE knocks RIM out of top 5

RIM (blackberry) out of top five. Ben

Find: Motorola lifts our spirits with new Atrix 4G video


Find: UN: worldwide internet users hit two billion, cellphone subscriptions top five billion


Find: Google announces Android event for February 2nd


Find: Study shocker! Mobile users piddle around on the internet while watching TV

We use the internet while we're watching TV. App opportunity? Ben.

Find: Ripples From the Cellphone's Splash

Sent from my iPhone

Find: scooped! iGrill at Macworld Expo

I guess it was a good idea! What else needs monitoring? Ben.

Find: 3M touts capacitive touchscreens with tiny bezels, 10x faster responsiveness

More compact responsive touchscreen tech. Ben

Find: iPhone 5 and iPad 2 will come with NFC built in, suggests well-connected analyst

Art mentioned this in class. Ben

Find: Compulab makes a tiny Tegra 2 computer for the lilliputian community

After motorolas atrix, here is a netbook with "mobile" insides: no phone attached. Dual core 1.2 ghz fanless .6 inch thick and sips just three watts. Ben

Job: Google hiring in 2011

The Goog is hiring big time. Ben

Find: WidgetLocker Customizes The Sliders on Android's Lock Screen

Sounds cool. Ben

Find: Cloud printing on the go

U can print from mobiles with google now. Ben

Find: Weather on your mobile phone, now with added fun

New interactive weather results in google mobile. Ben

Jobs: Google Summer of Code Announced at LCA

Sounds like educational fun. Ben

Guest: Art Swanson of Allscripts speaking in 591 tomorrow

Folks,



We will be visited by Art Swanson (LinkedInQuora) of local medical practice management software maker Allscripts. Allscripts is one of the leaders nationally in that field. Art will talk about their process for mobile development.

Please do your best to come and participate.

Best,

Ben

Find: When Visual Style Gets In The Way

Apple isn't infallible. Ben.

Find: TankBot: iGadget-Controlled Desktop Toy

A ball, a tank, what's next? Ben

Find: The solar system spins onto the iPad

Cool solar system and periodic table apps. Ben.

Find: Google unveils Conversation Mode for Translate app

Mentioned in class: voice to speech translation on android. And word lens, camera to screen translation.  Ben

Find: Visualized: the state of the smartphone wars

Mobiles, iOS, android state. Ben

Find: Nexus One gets tiny update to Android 2.2.2, fixes SMS routing issues

Update for our phones. Ben

Find: Sony 3D “Headman” visor, glasses-free 3D Blu-ray player

Would u watch movies w visor on a plane? Maybe when it's less obvious and lets me see real world to side. 

Laptop glasses free 3d makes sense. 

Ben

Find: CES: Mirasol color e-reader display ready for its close-up

Another e reader display tech. Not good in dark but color and interactive. Ben.

Find: CES: Your wish is the (iPhone-controlled) Sphero ball’s command

Hmm. Robo soccer? Remote exploration or snooping? Cheating at bowling? Ben

Find: Eric Schmidt: All of Google's Strategic Initiatives in 2011 are Mobile

Google focused on mobiles. Predicts 1B smartphone users in a few years. Ben.

Find: Democratizing Development: GameSalad Helps Amateurs Create 1,500 iOS Games

A game engine for iOS. Ben.

Find: Noborizaka Turns Your To-Do List into an Epic Game Quest [Video]

To do lists as games. What else could be game-ized? Ben

Studio: our teams, our phones, our ideas (updated)

Folks,

We'll be forming teams, distributing phones, and dreaming up app ideas today.


Update: we referenced our mind map from earlier while doing some ideation.

Lecture: design for software (updated)

Updated: we will be visited by Art Swanson (LinkedIn, Quora) of local medical practice management software maker Allscripts. Allscripts is one of the leaders nationally in that field. Art will talk about their process for mobile development.

Next week I'll try to bring this design stuff home to our software world. We'll talk about design method, and about what design means for software. The two readings I'd like you to react to by Monday evening are:
Here are some more readings that you should look at if you have the time:

Find: HP / Palm's webOS tablets

Coming in fall. Ben

Find: creative thinking by the simpsons stieg larsson and nintendo

Good ideas here. Ben

Find: What's Your Personal Data Worth?

All this data is on our phones. Especially. Ben

Find: An oldie but a goodie: The height of portable music player technology from the early '80s

Old mobiles. Ben

Find: us gov can track phones without warrant

But ACLU wants to change that. Ben

Find: Shoeboxed to move to new office, double staffing

Local co shoeboxed digitizes receipts w your mobile. Ben

Lecture: design thinking and process (updated)

Hey folks,

Sorry I didn't get the readings out promptly this week. Because of that, we'll make our reactions due again on Friday. Here are the readings for Friday:
  • A small book about design thinking and process has been written by NC State's College of Design. Please give your special attention to the introduction by Hargrove, and the final chapter by Fitzgerald. 
  • Chris Pacione wrote a manifesto of sorts for design thinking in Interactions magazine. (As a counterpoint, please see the column by Don Norman in Core77). 
I'll post more readings soon, with their reactions due Monday night.

We will also look at the TED lecture on design thinking by Tim Brown, head of IDEO.

Finally, we may also play with some mind mapping tools. A few online tools were recently reviewed by GigaOm.

Update: I've put the results of our mind mapping experiment online here.

Best,

Ben

Find: Gestural Interfaces: A Step Backwards in Usability

Norman and Nielsen critique mobile uis. Ben

Find: Google Announces Tablet-Focused Android 3.0

Android 3 (honeycomb) is just for tablets. Ben

Find: A year in Gear & Gadgets: 2010's most popular stories

Check out the nexus one review. Ben

Find: Ars Staff picks: our 10 favorite iOS apps of 2010

Ars picks for best android and iOS apps. Good to learn bout apps as u prepare to write your own. Ben

Find: 'Find my Friends' MobileMe feature revealed in iOS 4.3 developer build

iOS helps find friends. Android latitude already does it. Ben

Find: BlackBerry Balance announced, gives your phone a split personality

Virtualization on mobiles. Ben

Find: Qualcomm unveils dual-core Snapdragon reference handset at CES 2011

Dual core 1.2 ghz CPUs in phones. Ben

Find: Intel CEO Paul Otellini addresses Microsoft's ARM move in the wake of record earnings announcement

Intel on windows on arm chips and win 8 for tablets. Ben

Find: GoTriangle Joins Google Transit

Transit and wolfline on google, and available for mobile apps. Ben. 

Studio: Android hands-on

Hey folks,

In our first studio we'll get down and dirty with Android. Time permitting, we'll:
Best,

Ben

Find: Best of CES 2011


Summary of ces has lots of mobile stuff including motorolas atrix mentioned in class. 

Ben

Find: AT&T iPhone 4 vs. Verizon iPhone 4: what's changed?

Verizon iPhone! Great in US but not abroad. Ben

Find: Google Android passes Apple iOS in U.S. market

Hey folks,

The OS statistics I mentioned in class today.

Best,

Ben

Find: Letting everyone do great things with App Inventor

App inventor is Google's tool for making simple Android apps. We might all start playing with it this Thursday. We will go beyond it into real coding though.

Best,

Ben

Find: Exclusive interview: Google's Matias Duarte talks Honeycomb, tablets, and the future of Android

Matias Duarte is the former Palm designer now running Google's Android effort.

Best,

Ben

Find: BlackBerry PlayBook preview

Hey folks,

Here's the new Blackberry Playbook tablet I mentioned in class, with the new OS QNX.

Best,

Ben

Find: NVIDIA announces Project Denver ARM CPU for the desktop

Hey folks,

Here's the NVIDIA designing ARM (low power mobile) chips announcement I was talking about today.

Best,

Ben

Lecture: Introduction (updated with notes)

Hi folks,

Look forward to meeting you all tomorrow (maybe). I'm posting a few readings now -- certainly don't expect you to read them before tomorrow. But please do post your reactions by week's end on the Moodle. Our readings are:
I will update my lecture posts later with notes etc.

Updated: you can find my lecture notes and images here and here.

Best,

Ben