The JunkersHome application offers a convenient and energy-saving method to create the perfect climate at home using a smartphone to control the Junkers heating system.

In the coming years, energy solutions will form the basis of key technologies. Few industries will experience the same level of transformations as the energy sector. Energy efficiency will be the leading subject for a range of areas including mobility and intelligent environments like SmartHomes. Tomorrow’s energy era will also open new opportunities to consumers. Personal consumption will be more transparent and easier to manage.

Last week we had the pleasure of seeing one of our current projects in the field of future mobility services going live. I am going to take the chance and explain the project a bit more in detail here. car2gether is a new ride-sharing service making a debut in the German city of Ulm. The [...]

Medical Software in a Pocket This iPhone application allows physicians to analyze DICOM images in a network. It gives a good idea, how different interaction could be on an handheld, compared to a Desktop Solution. The navigation in the different dimensions (Z-Slices and 3D-Navigation) can be managed without graphical representation, which isn’t isn’t necessary – [...]

Photo by roambi.com “We declare all your important information free from the constraints of tables and cells. Use RoamBi to transform your existing data from a variety of sources into state-of-the-art, interactive visualizations for the iPhone.” – RoamBi.com Check out and play with the interactive demo on start page. It’s fun! What’s so great about [...]

We’re moving towards a computing world that is more and more focused on mobile devices. Technologies like the iPhone, Android, Palm Web OS and Kindle have caused this transformation. I wanted to share some of my recent thoughts about creating and designing applications in this “new” mobile environment. In my opinion these Ãœbergadgets have caused [...]

Eliss – trailer from steph thirion on Vimeo. “Warm up your hands, you’re up for some serious finger gymnastics in the bizarro galaxy.” Eliss is a sweet little game for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game principles cleverly integrate various multi-touch movements and interactions with sound. The simplicity of the formal elements and their [...]

The application uses the accelerometer of the ipod touch to control the speed of a ‘vinyl record’ on the ipod screen. Slowing down the record and speeding it up is just a matter of controlling how fast you spin the device. Spinning vinyl ipod app from Theodore Watson on Vimeo.

For all the the iPhone users that want to get back to the good old days when using mobile phones was a pain in the !$#?$. With the help of Zweiphone stickers can downgrade today! (via weeklydrop)

Apple has sneak previewed the next version of the iPhone OS yesterday. Besides the “huge innovation” of finally bringing Copy and Paste (btw “Shake to undo” is great) to the Phone, Apple has introduced some improvements that will enable third party developers to bring new innovation to the device. So what’s new and shiny in [...]

Last.fm is releasing a personal radio client for the android platform. The app is well designed according to last.fm’s corporate design. Besides the video shows a first glimpse of what will be possible on android making use of the “Apps without borders” concept. In other words applications on platforms like the iPhone or Android are [...]

Image by Research In Motion I recently had the chance to get my fingers on the new BlackBerry Storm. Which is kind of the RIM answer on the iPhone. By the way that’s one of the most underestimated features of the Apple Phone: It’s finally pushing user interface innovation in the mobile market. Hey it’s [...]

  A fuel-saving iPhone app, supports environmental awareness while steering your thirsty SUV through Stuttgart’s rush hours. (via)

Snow Patrol the first band to release an iPhone Application Is this the future of the App Store? Don’t think so … Openclip: Grassroot UI Innovation Cut and Paste for the iPhone What developers think about the app store I guess Apple should take these guys seriously New Safari makes flicking in webapps easy as [...]

Edward Tufte teilt seine Gedanken über das iPhone. Das Ganze gibt’s auch direkt als Videoanalyse. To clarify, add detail. Clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don’t start throwing out information. Instead, fix the design. And that is exactly what the iPhone [...]

Einen interessanten Blick hinter die Kulissen der iPhone Entwicklung gibt es bei Wired: “(…) Yet here, in Apple’s boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. It wasn’t just buggy, it flat-out didn’t work. The phone dropped calls constantly, the battery stopped charging before it was full, data and applications routinely became [...]

Das iPhone ist nicht nur für äußerst nützliche Dinge zu gebrauchen. Nein, auch auf den ersten Blick Sinnloses lässt sich mit dem Ãœbergadget anstellen. Stillframe zeigt auf seiner Flickr-Seite wie. “Why only save photos in your iPhone, when you could imprison your friends for eternity?! “ (Via)

Tada-List fürs iPhone 37signals machen ihre erfolgreiche Todo-Listen-Anwendung fit fürs iPhone. Eine sehr gelungen Integration: The beauty of simplicity. The Art of Possibility Garr Reynolds befasst sich mit dem sehr interessanten Buch Art of Possibility von Ben Zander und dem Thema Erfolg. Für alle Lesekranken hier seine Empfehlungsliste in Kurzform: You have to take riks [...]

Die Zukunft des mobilen Web sieht rosig aus für Apple. Steve Jobs verkündete auf der (wie immer zelebrierten) Developer Keynote, dass das iPhone eine komplette Safari Installation beinhaltet. Das ermöglicht es jedem Entwickler/Startup/Hobby-Tüftler/… moderne Web-Anwendungen auf das iPhone zu bringen. Das mag im ersten Augenblick unspektakulär klingen ist aber wieder mal weit nach vorne gedacht. [...]