This time around Singh discusses ‘Experimenting With Light’ in a new article whereby by light he means the ambient light sensors and the illuminated backlight keyboard sensors in Apple’s laptops. The article shows (source code is included) how one can measure ambient light and do things with it. It also shows things like how to get/set illuminated keyboard brightness and display brightness or do fade transitions of the keyboard lighting.

Warum sollten Keyboards, besonders “leuchtende”, keine informationsemitierenden Interfaces sein? Farbigkeit und Helligkeit der Leuchtkraft könnten ebenso für Signale an den Benutzer verwendet werden, wie “Animationen” der Lichtes auf/in/unter den Tasten.

innovative Interfaces
- multi touch
- haptische touchscreens
- pentop computer
- haptisch optisches interface
- coeno