Check out this experimental touchscreen DJ mixing desk interface designed by Gregory Kaufman. It's stunningly crafted, if potentially a little unintuitive for mass market. The various 1, 2 and 3 finger gesture combos might make it tricky to remember what does what. All the same, it's great to see things moving away from the traditional turntable / CDJ's and into multi-touch interactive platforms.
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Amazing time lapse video of Brooklyn based artist David Kassan painting a portrait using the Brushes App.
MuBlip is a nice progression in the sequencing game genre. Users need to remember light patterns and gestures in order to successully play back the musical sequence in time. The 8 Bit electronica sound track is pretty good too.
It has been created by Para9 in Montréal
We all use Gmail for its convenience but let's be honest it's not a pretty looking application. Josef Richter has gone to the trouble of creating a minimalist theme that runs under Fluid, the standalone Gmail desktop app. It takes a bit of fiddling around with multiple installations, but if the original Gmail interface rubs you up the wrong way there is a solution to hand. More info here