Mobile Concepts from Mozilla Labs

As much as Apple deserve credit for their recent, market changing, innovation around the iPhone they are by no means the only smart people out there. Take a look at the concepts bubbling out from the Aurora project created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept series.

I really like the idea of my UI adapting to my location and deciding what applications I most likely want to use and what data I'm most likely to find interesting. Similarly I like the tactile like gestures shown in one of the earlier videos - there's something about how sliding the menu out slowly makes sense yet a quick, dismissive, flick can exit back to the desktop (or should that be phone top ?).

I think the next few years are going to get very, very interesting as pervasive connectivity and location awareness change the way mainstream society thinks about how they interact with their surroundings. When your location becomes a program parameter does that mean you can customize applications for particular locations ?

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path