Enter the IEEE 1394 architecture and its close kin FireWire, which takes the high-speed digital bus interface up to the wicked fast transfer rate of 400MB per second.
New Glide has been given a significant facelift over its predecessor, boasting new icons that take the beauty and interactivity of the interface up a notch-making the best even better.
With the picture snagged, a simple art interface comes up, with options for colors, pen types, undo, save and so on.
The new user interface allows up to eight apps to run simultaneously, four of which can appear in small windows on the same screen - something the firm describes as "true multitasking".
Enter Georgie, an Android app that offers up a blind-friendly interface to open up the likes of maps, Twitter and email.
The user-friendly interface also supports up to four separate networks, with different bandwidth and access privileges.
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That's promising, because whenever we search through TWC's current Scientific Atlanta DVR interface we wind up spiking our remote control in frustration, and that's getting expensive.
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For example, dozens of people saw the graphical user interface set-up at the Xerox PARC facility in Palo Alto, but it was Jobs who, in 1979, perceived it differently and went on to adopt and adapt the technology for what ultimately became the first Macintosh computer, in 1984.
So, Jolla developed a new user interface, rolled it up and called the whole thing Sailfish.
Unlike Google, it hasn't opened up its typing interface for experimentation from outside programmers.
Finally, the camera icon predictably brings up the photography interface, which we'll explore in more detail later.
Windows Phone also takes care of most of the interface slowdowns that often crop up with typical low-end phones.
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At least NTT DoCoMo thinks so, offering up a new interface to avoid such issues -- and throw in some extra gesture shortcuts.
The new 12 Gbps specification will eventually allow the host system to decide how much power a storage device with the interface should use, allowing up 25 W. It will also allow atomic writes, which will improve system performance as well as providing more resilient system designs.
If you're using a desktop PC or laptop PC at work, you'll probably end up using the old interface.
The fitness app functions as a social networking site with a videogame-style interface that lets users "level up" based on their physical activities.
Third, dashboards or reports are enhanced so that the unstructured information related to the information displayed from the structured data shows up in the user interface.
This move seems sensible enough as a way for Google to shore up its exchange user interface, which even Google concedes needs more care and feeding.
In fact the company has opened up the application programming interface (API) and is encouraging others to develop apps for Sphero to expand its range of uses.
To that end, WePay has also opened up its application programming interface (API) to allow its community of third-party developers to create new products based off of its service.
At the very moment we look at those new clothes in that store window, a special offer for the clothes will flash up on the digital interface of our Google Glass.
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Somewhere in the course of flipping the screen around, as the unit converts from a notebook to a tablet, Windows 7 disappears and (for now) a beta copy of Windows 8 comes up with its Metro interface showing for a great tablet experience.
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One of the big announcements it made was that Facebook was opening up its Places application programming interface (API).
It's now called a "Start Tip" as it isn't a proper button, but you can click on it and bring up the tiled Start Screen interface.
The ATM uses a touch screen interface and provides consumers a mix of up to 36 options in different sizes, price points and designs across the precious metals and jewelry categories.
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The example we saw was a simple radio with a a pair of dials and a speaker, and when the iPad's camera was pointed at it, a circular interface along with a menu system popped up that cannily tracked the radio.
So now Scott Forstall is gone and his job has really been divvied up between Jony Ive for Human Interface, Craig Federighi for Software, and Eddy Cue for Siri and Maps.
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Earlier this week the streaming hi-fi hardware maker Sonos announced that it was opening up its API (Application Programming Interface) so that music services could build apps - and those already include Spotify.
At the fabled Xerox Palo Alto Research Center scientists sat on beanbag chairs and dreamed up inventions like the graphical user interface for small computers and the PostScript language for printers, as well as ways to link computers within an office.
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