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What's in a name?A lot, therefore we changed the name of Image Generation Station or IGS to a more furniture like and speakable name... Cabinet. Before we came up with this we had these thoughts
- "cubby" inspired: projy (japanese inspired, related to project and pojecting), immy (images)
- "tri" inspired: pri (p for projecting and prying into studioenvironment), spi (inspi and spy)
- "frogs" inspired: walls, colls
- "productworld" inspired: imagewall, collageworld, moodwalls (moodboards)
- "ideas" inspired: inspires, inspirations
- "Sketching" inspired: inpiring, collecting
- "iApps" inspired: iWall, iSpire (inspire and aspire)
- "Artist" inspired: Hockney, collage
The name "Cabinet" refers to the Cabinet of Curiosities and the pieces of furniture that can be used to put things in and to put things on top. Check out the Cabinet images you get from "google".
What's related?
Hardware manufacturers, software builders, scientists etc. let's make a web of links (this may grow into a directory).
commercial products
- Apple iPhoto The first big application to really take image management as the management of images and not files. It uses your spatial memory, it allows for structuring on keywords (with buttons) and slideshows (for groupings), and zooming (for overview and detail), but it does not use the spatial memory that purely as we want to. The iterations from iPhoto 1 to iPhoto 2 are more focused on speed and not on real new interactions.
- Picasa People call it the iPhoto for windows, but apart from all the similarities it truly has a very interesting timeline view. Made by some people that were also part of the Metacreations team back in the days
- Adobe Photoshop Album, Adobe's answer to iPhoto has one amazingly interesting feature: the focus on the timeline with a visualization of the timeline in a graph of pictures taken, the rest is too computerlike and keyword oriented though. An archive of the "Adobe Photoshop Album movie" is on this website.
- ACDSee, it's just plain fast and integrated in your file system, but it focuses too much on what the computer knows (time, pixels etc.) but for power users it is the big daddy of image management software
- Delicious Library, a great application that makes collecting fun
- Flickr An amazingly well crafted service by great people. Seeing is believing. Check out Cabinet's Photos, calendar, surf, notes, tags, smile
- PhotoAccess Random pictures, good slideshow and great sharing
- oFoto Very stylish,
- Dead ringers: zing.com,
- Photos at HCIL Maryland Especially PhotoMesa was an inspiration, but direct annotation and all are good as well
- Kerry Rodden PhD research Similarity visualized with Multi-Dimensional Scaling techniques as part of the interesting AT&T Shoebox software.
- My Picture @ HP Labs Bristol
Very interesting contexual inquiries done by David Frohlich, Giordano Beretta and work by my graduate student Sander Vroegindeweij.
- Collage Machine by Andruid Kerne at the Media Research Lab at NYU. Very interesting interact with new images retrieved from the web through collages. Currently at http://ecologylab.cs.tamu.edu/combinFormation/
online products
- Flickr An amazingly well crafted service by great people. Seeing is believing. Check out Cabinet's Photos, calendar, surf, notes, tags, smile
- PhotoAccess Random pictures, good slideshow and great sharing
- oFoto Very stylish,
- Dead ringers: zing.com,
- The Internet Archive's Scribe Book scanning machine is a very cool and comparable way of digitizing physical books with great care.
- Make Magazine Hacks for real things and DIY inspiration. Cabinet has a lot of that
- Things Magazine Who mention a cabinet of curiosity in their weblog.
- Intentionalities their web interface has a lot of the cool dangling card stuff. A bit over the top though with shadows, latency and gravity, but still.
- Media trash an art installation by Xelor aka Roel Wouters has both interace similarities and is a real working prototype making media into trash.
- Panasonic Interactive Intelligent Table It's a table.... But I never intended to make an interactive table. Might as well add the very cool Sony Datatiles
- Jeff Han's Multi-touch Interaction at MRL NYU a research prototype demonstrating a new sensing technique with a demo reel of some interesting applications. I really like the demo, especially the animation and google Earth part.
- Accenture Interactive Network (wall) an installation at Chicago's O'Hare airport. Found out about this one through the interesting great demo, bad product post by 37 Signals.
