Check out the image gallery and read more about the house in the FAQ. It’s pretty inspirational, and makes me feel like a bit of a slob in my 1,000sqft house.
Now that we have a few USB powered monitors on the market, I hope we’ll see a USB powered Cintiq soon. The Cintiq 12WX I use is far too cumbersome to be a portable solution. It needs USB, DVI, and Power connections to work.
I haven’t messed with layout sketches before. I have used standard sketches in an assembly to drive parts, “top-down” modeling, but I have never used blocks in layout sketches to accomplish this. As an industrial designer my modeling approach is typically bottom-up, modeling a full product within a single part file, and breaking it up in to multiple bodies. That approach gets my head turned around if I need to deal with mechanical systems and moving parts, though, so I’d like to try to work some top-down layout sketch techniques in to my brain.
Here are a couple illustrative videos I found this morning while looking things up.
This is very exciting. Adobe has unveiled concepts that use touch-centric tablet devices to extend asset creation as well as control of their applications. Â We’ve all thought about it, we’ve all wished for it, and now it looks like Adobe is rolling it out.
They are starting with Photoshop, releasing a multi-touch paint application, an advanced color picker (with paint mixing), and a UI extender that lets you view open documents or choose tools with the tablet. I’m most excited about the last one, since it will grant notebook users the power of a dual display workstation without the bulk of dual displays. You’ll be able to prop your iPad up on the table and transmit everything wirelessly.