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Shake, rattle and roll
I’m too busy working on some great new projects to write a very long post, but couldn’t resist letting you know about a very interesting interface design developed at my old university, University of Glasgow.
Its a tactile and audio interface called ‘Shoogle’. (I can’t help wondering if the name would make any sense to those not lucky enough to be born in the west of Scotland…)
Shoogle is a lovely piece of software that enables users to check their mobile’s battery life and for unread / unheard messages by just shaking the handset.
So, you shake your phone and a combination of sound and vibrations mimics blocks or liquid trapped within. A phone full of liquid equals a full battery, just a few drops inside means time to find a charger.
Now, if someone develops a universal charger that works for every kind of mobile my life will be complete…
If you want to see, and hear, Shoogle in action visit the microsite:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jhw/shoogle/index.html
